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In the context of globalization and internationalization of the modern world, the requirements to a person, to a specialist have changed, and it accordingly changes the requirements to educational institutions, which are training specialists for innovative thinking, competitive in the global job market. Since 2013, National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) is a participant of the Russian Academic Excellence Project 5-100, the purpose of which is to maximize the competitive position of a group of leading Russian universities in the global research and education market. In this regard, the latest TPU strategic programme has been developed with the aim to increase its research and innovations potential as well as the university global impact and presence. One of the measures to reach this aim is to attract talented early-career scientists, postdoctoral fellows and graduate students into the university. A pool of young talented researchers is vital for scientific research and technological advancement of a university, both at national and international scale. A modern early-career researcher is a mobile scientist with specific competences and skills, which enable him to perform research on a world class level, present research results in publications in high quality peer-reviewed journals.