Research efforts pursued by the University is in line with the priorities of the Strategy for Science and Technology Development (SSTD) and the National Technological Initiative of Russia (NTI).

Our advantages:

• synergy of research lines and research groups;

• state-of-the-art research, testing and technological equipment;

• highly qualified staff with experience in handling difficult non-routine problems drawing on their competences;

• long-term successful experience of interactions with enterprises of the real sector of the economy.

Ogarev Mordovia State University:

• is a participant of the Science and Education Centre (SEC) «Engineering of the future», which was awarded by way of competition the status of the Centre of International standard;

• a research and education integrator of the innovative territorial cluster of the Republic of Mordovia «Light Engineering and Optoelectronic Instrumentation» (Bright City) and the Republican industrial cluster «Fiber Optics and Optoelectronics»;

• co-initiator of the consortium "Languages and Ethnogenomics of Finno-Ugric Peoples" together with the V. P. Ivannikov Institute of System Programming of the Russian Academy of Sciences;

• member of the consortium «Radiophotonics» ;

• member of the consortium of the Competence Center under NTI "Photonics".

Research priorities:

• photonics: materials, devices and technologies;

• functional and structural materials of a new generation;

• medicine of the future: targeted pharmacotherapy and a personalised approach to treatment;

• digital transformation of scientific-educational and socio-economic development processes;

• automation and power engineering;

• smart agriculture;

• sustainable development and digital infrastructures of spatial data of territorial ecosystems;

• socio-humanitarian research for the harmonisation of socio-cultural relations.

There are 127 University-based research laboratories and centres equipped with specific international standard research equipment, including 3 resource sharing centres: "Materials science", "Light engineering metrology", "Electronic engineering and magnetophotonics". In order to commercialise the intellectual property, there are 17 small innovative enterprises i.e. university spin-offs.

To name just a few:

• Environmental testing laboratory launched in partnership with Russian research institute of aviation materials on the premises of G.V.Akimov Gelendzhik Center for environmental testing;

• Laboratory of Optical Materials Technologies, established jointly with Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences;

• Science and Education Centre "Physics of modern, solid-state and fiber Lasers", created jointly with the Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Nogrorod;

• Technopark-based university-owned research laboratory «Synthesis and processing of SiC single crystals»;

• The Joint International Laboratory LIA LICS on «Critical and supercritical phenomena in functional electronics, acoustics and fluidics»;

• Interregional science center for Finno-Ugric studies.

The University is one of the leading research centres of Russia closely integrated into the academic environment.