Dmitry Chernyshenko spoke at the plenary session of the IV Congress of Young Scientists
Dmitry Chernyshenko spoke at the plenary session of the IV Congress of Young Scientists
Dmitry Chernyshenko inspected the exhibition of the IV Congress of Young Scientists. With the Minister of Science and Higher Education Valery Falkov and the head of the Federal Medical and Biological Agency Veronica Skvortsova
Dmitry Chernyshenko spoke at the plenary session of the IV Congress of Young Scientists
Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko spoke at the plenary session of the IV Congress of Young Scientists. This year’s theme is “Science for Technology Leadership and Response to Global Challenges: People, Ideas, Collaboration.”
The Congress is a key event in 2024 within the framework of the Decade of Science and Technology, announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin. The event takes place on November 27–29 on the Sirius federal territory.
Before the start of the event, the Deputy Prime Minister, together with the Minister of Science and Higher Education Valery Falkov and the head of the Federal Medical and Biological Agency Veronica Skvortsova, toured the congress exhibition. At the stand of the All-Russian Society of Inventors and Innovators, he congratulated the winners of the II All-Russian competition “Inventor of the Year”.
During the plenary session, Presidential Aide Andrei Fursenko read out a greeting from Vladimir Putin. The head of state noted Russia’s openness to constructive, equal and mutually beneficial international partnership in the scientific field.
Dmitry Chernyshenko, Andrey Fursenko, Valery Falkov and President of the Russian Academy of Sciences Gennady Krasnikov awarded young innovators of the BRICS countries.
“Thanks to the Decade of Science and Technology, announced by President Vladimir Putin, the scientific field has become more popular and in demand among citizens. According to VTsIOM surveys, three-quarters of parents would like their children to build a career in the development of future technologies, and the profession of a scientist is considered prestigious by 61% of Russians – this is 10% more than last year,” the Deputy Prime Minister said.
Over the past year, Russia has defined strategic goal-setting in the field of scientific and technological development for the coming period. The priorities outlined by the head of state resonate among friendly countries.
Technological leadership has become a national development goal. Nine national projects will be aimed at achieving it.
“Their logic includes the implementation of large-scale initiatives at the national and international level. There is no doubt that they will become the foundation for the creation of new products and services, some of which we saw here at the forum exhibition. Another very important indicator set by President Vladimir Putin is to increase spending on science to 2% of GDP by 2030. In nominal terms, this is 5.7 trillion rubles by 2030. This year this figure will be more than 1.6 trillion. An additional 3 trillion rubles will be allocated for the implementation of nine national projects for Russia’s technological leadership,” said Dmitry Chernyshenko.
This year, the implementation of the national project “Science and Universities” ends, which created the necessary conditions and prospects for the further development of the field of research and development. A number of existing support measures will be transferred to the national project “Youth and Children”, and some of the activities will be integrated into the state program of scientific and technological development.
The government pays attention to the development of scientific collaboration and meeting the needs of scientists. This year, the first 14 services of the Science and Innovation domain were placed on the GosTech platform.
Valery Falkov noted that the country currently has a wide range of state support measures for young scientists, researchers, technology entrepreneurs, and new generation engineers.
“We have built a system of support measures. For example, if you connect your life with science, you can start with a youth laboratory at a university. For the most serious immersion in big science, there are installations of the “megascience” class. If you are drawn to the creative, research-based and entrepreneurial side, we have the Advanced Engineering Schools and the University Technology Entrepreneurship Platform,” he said.
The plenary session was attended by Assistant to the President of Russia Andrei Fursenko, Minister of Science and Higher Education Valery Falkov, Head of the Federal Medical and Biological Agency of Russia Veronika Skvortsova, President of the National Research Center “Kurchatov Institute” Mikhail Kovalchuk, President of the Russian Academy of Sciences Gennady Krasnikov, Chairman of the Council of the Federal Territory “Sirius”, head Educational Foundation “Talent and Success” Elena Shmeleva, General Director of the Russian Direct Investment Fund Kirill Dmitriev, Deputy General Director for Personnel of Rosatom State Corporation Tatyana Terentyeva, Scientific Secretary of the Photonics Center, head of the laboratory of the Institute of Applied Physics Alexander Solovyov, as well as young scientists.