MOSCOW, September 14 More than 1,200 applications were submitted from applicants for the IX All-Russian Prize “For Fidelity to Science”; the laureates will be named in October, the Ministry of Education and Science reported.
«»The IX All-Russian Prize «For Fidelity to Science» received 1,213 applications from 78 regions of Russia. The names of the laureates will be announced at a ceremony to be held in October 2023. The winners will receive a cash reward and special prizes from the competition partners: a trip on a nuclear icebreaker, a trip to one of the Russian cosmodromes and a unique excursion to the Engineering Center of the Irkut Corporation in Moscow,” the message says.
In addition, the prize winners will be able to go to one of the key events of the Decade of Science and Technology — the III Congress of Young Scientists.
“The Award “For Fidelity to Science” is aimed at solving the problem within the framework of the Decade of Science and Technology related to the availability of information about the achievements of domestic scientists. It contributes to the emergence of a larger number of scientific and educational projects and the expansion of their geography. This is confirmed by the figures: in 2020, 312 applications, in 2021, the Year of Science and Technology, their number increased to 744, in 2022 — 1165. This year we once again broke the record — 1213 applications from 78 regions. It is also worth noting not only the quantity, but the quality and the variety of formats of projects that were nominated for the award. These are already traditional podcasts about science, festivals, photo exhibitions, popular science books, educational projects on social networks, as well as virtual museums, VR reconstructions,» said the Deputy Minister of Science and Higher Education Education of the Russian Federation Denis Sekirinsky.
The organizer of the award is the Ministry of Education and Science, the partners of the event are the Russian Academy of Sciences, the National Research Center «Kurchatov Institute» and Lomonosov Moscow State University. For more than five years in a row, the award has been supported by the Art, Science and Sports charity foundation.
The founders of the special prizes were the state corporations Roscosmos, Rostec and Rosatom.