IMMANUEL KANT BALTIC FEDERAL UNIVERSITY

The strategic goal of the IKBFU is to increase and secure competitiveness in the national and global markets of university education and R&D through developing competences in new areas and activities in line with the breakthrough achievements in the field of biomedical, neuro-, nanotechnology as well as in social sciences and the humanities.

The University mission is to develop into a national leader in three interdisciplinary areas based on breakthrough achievements in biotechnologies and neurotechnologies; materials science and nanotechnology; information and communication technologies; to become a trendsetter in technology; to train internationally competitive professionals.

There are several interdisciplinary priorities within the three major research areas:

• neurotechnologies;
• genetic engineering;
• marine microbiology;
• nanomaterials;
• applied engineering technologies;
• fundamental mathematics and informatics;
• information security.

The three interdisciplinary areas make it possible to integrate all competitive areas developing at the IKBFU as a classical university. Innovative results have been achieved in these areas.