A unique system of personnel training, rich experience, scientific base, high-tech infrastructure - this is what distinguishes Tatarstan's sports university from others and attracts it to co-operation. This was discussed today at the Volga Region State University of Physical Culture, Sports and Tourism during the meeting with the delegation of Uzbekistan headed by Bairam Utemuratov, Chairman of the Committee on Youth Policy and Healthy Generation of the Republic of Karakalpakstan. The guests of the capital of Tatarstan are on a working visit to Kazan.
The delegation, accompanied by Azat Sharapov, First Vice-Rector of Volga Region University, got acquainted with the university's facilities: they visited teaching, training, scientific, cultural and sports halls, as well as the Universiade Museum and Information Resource Centre. The guests also got acquainted with the activities of the new Fijital Centre, the Research Institute of Physical Culture and Sports and sports facilities of Volga Region University.
During the negotiations the guests expressed their readiness and willingness to build co-operation in educational, research activities, development of scientific and practical and scientific-methodical materials, ensuring the development of partnership system between universities.
The guests were particularly interested in the Fijital Centre, the Research Institute and the university facilities.
It is worth noting that the Fijital Centre is a sports ground, which is a single space for classical and digital sports. The Volga Region University has created all the necessary infrastructure for training and tournaments in fijital sports: a mini-football field, a streetball court and a vorkout zone, as well as a digital space with a computer room, a zone of game consoles and virtual reality.
The Research Institute of Physical Education and Sport is unique in its scientific sports medical base. Here there are all possibilities to conduct scientific-methodological and medical-biological support together with the training process. Programmes and methods of training and rehabilitation process for athletes have been successfully implemented. Developments of the Institute of Physical Culture and Sport allow not only to diagnose the arisen problem, but also to cope with it successfully thanks to modern equipment and specialists.
The medical and sanitary unit of the Research Institute conducts routine examinations of the functional state of professional athletes to correct the training process, detect and prevent the initial stages of pathological changes, maladaptation and overtraining. Qualified specialists can assess the level of functional training, identify factors limiting sports performance, adjust the training process, and draw up a programme of rehabilitation measures. The centre provides in-depth medical examinations to select children for sports clubs and schools.
At the facilities of the Volga Region University, the delegation saw in practice how the dual education system is organised. The high-tech infrastructure of the University's sports facilities, a comprehensive sports school, a college, the infrastructure of the hotel and guest houses of the residential cluster, a student catering combine, which are part of the University's structure, are built into the training process on the principles of duality. This is a type of training in which the student receives theoretical knowledge in an educational institution, and practical skills - in the organisation at the workplace, in the case of the Volga Region University at the University facilities. The created model is built on the basis of analysis and forecasting of the regional labour market needs in specialists.
