Reinventing partnership: how to develop sport services in infrastructure projects at the university in Russia

This article is devoted to the problem of the development of sports infrastructure in higher education in Russia. The main purpose of the article is to develop the model of public-private partnership in the projects dedicated to the development of university sport infrastructure. For this purpose, different models of public-private partnerships in creation of sports infrastructure in universities abroad were examined and two scenarios of construction of the university sport infrastructure on the basis of partnership of sectors in Russia were offered. Systematized their strengths and weaknesses, we had determined the most preferred option for development of university sport infrastructure based on partnership in conditions of limited budget financing of universities in modern Russia. Hypothetical model of such collaboration between public and private sectors in order to built university sport infrastructure was portrayed for the St. Petersburg campus of HSE. Survey results help to solve the problem of a low provision of sports facilities, which has a negative effect on the development of sport in higher education. The study can be useful for a university management as well as for government officials in the field of higher education in Russia.