MOSCOW, December 20A competition for young scientists has started in Russia. This was stated by the Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Stepan Kalmykov, speaking on December 20 at a press conference at the Rossiya Segodnya International Information Agency. The competition, dedicated to the 300th anniversary of the Russian Academy of Sciences, is aimed at supporting innovative scientific developments and the latest research in priority sectors of the economy: chemical industry, agricultural production, pharmaceuticals, electronics, energy, and digital technologies.
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“This is a big deal to popularize science and attract young scientists to high-tech business,” he noted, adding that it is important for young people who have many roads ahead of them to see that there is an opportunity to engage in science and high-tech business. According to him, the attitude towards everything that is now called with the big word “technological sovereignty” is changing greatly; and this happens not only at the level of government policy, but also at the level of large companies that are beginning to actively invest in this.
The president of the Sistema charity foundation, which is a co-organizer of the competition, corresponding member of RAO Larisa Pastukhova, announced the basic rules.
“Participants – one young scientist or a team of students and young scientists. Age categories – doctors of sciences up to 40 years old; candidates of sciences up to 35 years old; those who have not yet defended their defense, up to 30 years old ; plus students,” she noted, adding that a team can consist of no more than three people, of which at least one team member must be a young scientist.
The competition is held in four categories: “artificial intelligence and quantum technologies”, “alternative energy sources”, “new materials and chemical processes”, “genetics and biomedicine”.
Applications for participation, which will last until March 1, 2024, are accepted on the “Lift to the Future” career guidance platform. At the second stage, applications will be selected based on formal criteria – technical examination for compliance with nominations, requirements for the application, work and participants (March 2 – 20). At the third stage, open presentations of scientific works will take place in face-to-face and online formats, scientific examination and announcement of winners (March 21 – June 1). Then the winners of the competition will receive cash prizes – 300 thousand rubles.
“For us, what is important is not so much the competition mechanics itself, but an intellectual conversation that will have very positive results for the most thoughtful young people of our country,” Larisa Pastukhova emphasized, adding that each nomination will have its own industrial partners. According to the expert, the competition is just an excuse, and for a young scientist it is extremely important to get space to implement his ideas and the opportunity for professional growth.
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Astrophysicist, vice-president of AFK Sistema for high technologies, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Yuri Balega expressed the opinion that the main goal of the competition is to move from inventions and discoveries to industrial production. “We would like to turn our ship towards high technology, to connect industry and science,” he noted.
The legal protection of the intellectual property of the competitors will be handled by the Federal Service for Intellectual Property (Rospatent). The head of the department, Yuri Zubov, believes that the competition is a step towards finding talent and supporting their ideas at the earliest stage – helping with the protection of intellectual rights, protecting them from copying and bringing them to the final product.
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He recalled that patents are granted only for an idea that deserves world novelty. And such ideas, according to him, are becoming more and more numerous. “This year we see an increase in applications for registration of inventions by more than 8 percent,” he said, emphasizing that these include medicine, aircraft, engine building, and other important technologies. Moreover, according to the head of Rospatent, the number of applications related to developments in the field of artificial intelligence has increased by 50 percent.
December 14, 07:00
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