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The end of 2021 has been declared the Year of Science and Technology. From his findings, it's safe to say that scientists and their developments are in the spotlight again. More and more parents want their children to fulfill themselves in science. According to surveys, 62% of schoolchildren are proud of Russian science. In six months, this indicator has increased by 10%.
Support for promising projects, integration of universities and companies to bring the developments of scientists into the real sector of the economy, creation of new opportunities for young researchers & ndash; All these tasks are carried out by the national Sciences and Universities project.
We talk about the results and the main achievements of this year within the framework of the national project.
New World- Class CER
The program of building world-class Research and Education Centers (CERs), which began in 2019, continues. In 2021, five other regional science centers were added to the list of these centers.
These are innovative platforms for interaction between universities, scientific organizations and businesses to create and commercialize promising developments of national scientists. Thanks to modern research resources and infrastructure, scientists working there will be able to implement promising projects and implement them in real sectors of the economy.
As part of the implementation of the national project “ Sciences and Universities '' The President of Russia has made it his mission to create 15 world-class RECs by 2024.
Youth Labs
120 youth labs were opened during the Year of Science and Technology. The Ministry of Education and Science has allocated 1.8 billion rubles for this purpose over the past year. The support measure is aimed at those who are studying in postgraduate studies, as well as those who have already stood up for themselves and are taking their first steps in the sciences.
In total, since December 2018, thanks to the national project “ Sciences and Universities & # 39; & # 39; 380 youth laboratories were established on the basis of scientific organizations and universities. They employ graduate students, research engineers, teachers and scientists, researchers from industrial departments and companies. They operate in the field of biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, medicine and other sciences.
In 2021, a number of Youth Labs were opened as part of organizations participating in world-class science and education centers.
'Priority-2030' Program
One of the most significant achievements of this year was the launch of the Priority 2030 program. It is the largest academic development program in Russian history.
The Priority 2030 goal & ndash; form more than a hundred modern and progressive universities, which will become centers of scientific, technological and socio-economic development of the country. The estimated implementation period of the program is ten years, it will take place in two stages: from 2021 to 2025 and from 2025 to 2030. Its financing involves the payment of the basic part of the grant, from a amount of 100 million rubles for each university selected based on the results of the first stage of the defense, as well as a special part, the amount of which was determined under separate competitive selections – “ Research leadership & # 39; # 39; & # 39; and “Sectoral (territorial) leadership”.
At the end of September, the commission of the Ministry of Education and Science selected the program “ Priority-2030 '' 106 universities from 49 cities. They will receive the basic part of the grant, 15 more universities have become applicants to participate in the program. It should be noted that more than 60% of the universities included in the program are regions. Only 28 universities are located in Moscow, 11 & ndash; in St. Petersburg. The other 67 are spread over 47 Russian cities.
All the participants in the Priority 2030 program have strategic projects. Their total number is 409. More than half of them focus on digital transformation, monitoring and control of greenhouse gas emissions.
Technology transfer centers
In 2021, 18 universities in the country won the competition for grants from the Ministry of Education and Science for the establishment of Technology Transfer Centers (TTC). Through these centers, it will become easier for scientists to patent developments and interact with partners to create promising technologies. TTC's tasks include multidisciplinary work to provide support in the area of protecting the results of the intellectual activity of scientists and the legal registration of their developments for further commercial use. Developing a culture of protecting intellectual property rights will increase the well-being not only of scientists, but also of the country as a whole. Thanks to the measures of the national project “ Sciences and Universities '' at least 35 CTTs will appear in Russia by 2024. & nbsp;
Today, universities have a large number of technologies that can be useful, but for their correct introduction to the market it is necessary to ensure reliable protection of intellectual property. This is important: it happens that the incorrect registration of patent documentation or its absence leads to unscrupulous manufacturers or competitors taking ownership of someone else's development. . In this case, the university and the researcher working there struggle to resolve the issue with the 'stolen technology'. judicially. The Technology Transfer Centers will help create a culture of legal registration of development rights in universities and help scientists save time by coordinating all rights registration processes, as well as by looking for potential investors.
The mega-grants program
This year, the mega-grant program continued. In 2021, support has been given to establish 42 laboratories – this is the largest number of world-class laboratories under the leadership of leading scientists in the past 5 years under this program . In total, in 2021, 101 projects were funded from the federal budget for a total amount of 2.8 billion rubles.
There are three Nobel Laureates among the leaders of the supported projects – they are Sydney Altman, Osamu Shimomura and George Fitzgerald Smoot. Among others, it is worth mentioning the winner of the Fields Prize Stanislav Smirnov, the laureates of the Nobel Peace Prize Jean Jouzel and Ricardo Valentini, the Charles H. Townes Prize of the Optical Society of America Gérard Mourou, won the Nobel Prize in physics in 2018, already head of the laboratory of the megagrant program, bioinformatics guru Pavel Pevzner, a recognized specialist in the field of plasma physics Friedrich Wagner, the strongest national biologists Sergei Lukyanov and Pyotr Chumakov , the legendary physicistVladimir Zakharov, very high citation indices, physicist Yuri Kivshar from Australia and biomedical scientist Boris Zhivotovsky from Sweden, Russian scientists the more cited & ndash; Alexandra Kabanova, Artem Oganova, Alexandra Pukhova, Gleb Sukhorukova.
Carbon polygons
During the Year of Science and Technology, a program for the development of carbon polygons was approved. This is the name of the Single Ecosystem Territories, created for the implementation of climate active gas control measures. Carbon polygons enable the most important research in the field of ecology to be carried out and create a basis for the domestic greenhouse gas monitoring system based on remote measurement and data processing methods obtained with the help of artificial intelligence.
In the first year of the project, carbon polygons were opened in the regions of the Chechen Republic, Krasnodar Territory, Kaliningrad , Novosibirsk, Sakhalin, Sverdlovsk and Tyumen. They are created with the participation of universities, scientific bodies and large companies; world-class scientific and educational centers will participate in many projects for their deployment. To date, 9 universities are participating in the pilot project.