Mikhail Mishustin: We are gathered here today to present awards to teams of researchers for creating products which have been implemented in establishments in the key sectors of the national economy. It is especially important that these innovations are competitive and can substitute foreign analogues. Moreover, some of them are unique.
Mikhail Mishustin presents Government science and technology awards
Mikhail Mishustin presents Government science and technology awards
Mikhail Mishustin presents Government science and technology awards. With Professor Fyodor Pashchenko of the Trapeznikov Institute of Control Sciences
Mikhail Mishustin presents Government science and technology awards. With Chief Research Fellow of the Lorkh Federal Potato Research Centre Oksana Starovoitova
Mikhail Mishustin presents Government science and technology awards. With head of laboratory – deputy department head of the Kirov Military Medical Academy Artyom Nosov
Mikhail Mishustin presents Government science and technology awards. With Director of the Kutateladze Institute of Thermophysics – full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Dmitry Markovich
Mikhail Mishustin presents Government science and technology awards. With Professor Vladimir Gribin of the National Research University Moscow Power Engineering Institute (MPEI)
Mikhail Mishustin presents Government science and technology awards. With full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Gennady Kotelnikov
Mikhail Mishustin presents Government science and technology awards. With deputy head for research of the Academy of the State Fire Service of the Emergencies Ministry Mikhail Aleshkov
Mikhail Mishustin presents Government science and technology awards. With deputy head for research of the Space Research Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences Alexander Lutovinov
Mikhail Mishustin presents Government science and technology awards
Government science and technology awards and Government science and technology awards for young scientists are presented every year for outstanding achievements in order to promote creative activities of our researchers and professionals, enhance the prestige of their professions and stimulate research.
These awards are presented for the following achievements:
— research and design projects that resulted in the creation and practical implementation of fundamentally new technologies, machinery, equipment, materials and substances;
— practical implementation of discoveries that have led to the appearance of new trends in the spheres of engineering and technology;
— the results of research applied in the exploration, production and processing of mineral resources;
— highly effective innovation and research projects implemented in the production, processing and storage of agricultural products;
— high results in research, creation and practical implementation of new methods and means in medicine and healthcare;
— research, design and technological achievements in construction, architecture and housing and utilities;
— projects contributing to addressing ecology and nature protection issues;
— research contributing to enhancing the efficiency of the real economy sector;
— the results of research and design projects in the interests of defence and security that have been implemented as new military and special equipment.
As per Government Resolutions No. 544 of 26 July 2010 and No. 601 of 5 August 2010, these prizes are awarded in accordance with Government’s decisions based on recommendations of the Interdepartmental Council on Government Science and Technology Awards coordinated with the Commission on Scientific and Technological Development.
The Council is a permanent advisory body of prominent and highly respected scientists and professionals in various fields of science and technology established at the Ministry of Education and Science to review the nominations, organise their examination and prepare proposals on candidates for the awards.
Mikhail Mishustin’s remarks:
Colleagues, friends,
I am pleased to welcome you to the ceremony for presenting Government awards in science and technology.
Last week marked Mikhail Lomonosov’s birthday which is a memorable date for many of you who are involved in research and education. He was an outstanding scientist who never stopped to advocate for applying scientific research in real life. He said, “There is not a single place in Russia where science could not bear its fruit. There is not a single person who could not expect to benefit from them.”
Today, we have come together to present awards to teams of researchers that have created innovations, the results of which have been implemented in the organisations operating in the key sectors of the economy, such as the manufacturing industry, energy, and agriculture, as well as outer space exploration, and healthcare. It is particularly important that these innovations are competitive and can be used to replace similar foreign products. Some of them are just unmatched.
The President emphasised, “It is important to use all our fundamental achievements to create new industries and new markets in Russia.
In order to accomplish this and acting on the Presidential instructions, the Government has updated the Scientific and Technological Development Strategy. Its key objective is to provide our country with its own technologies, key components, and materials, as well as means of production, and to establish the production of an entire range of necessary output. To accomplish this mission, we must continue to create an effective system for interaction between science and production facilities, to improve the infrastructure and the conditions for conducting research and ensuing implementation of innovations.
We have been deploying major efforts and making use of ample resources in this area, which is why we now have a robust foundation for long-term growth.
Fifteen scientific and educational centres have been working hard to build up their capabilities as well. This year alone, they developed about 7,500 technological processes that enjoy demand on the production sites, with about 60,000 highly skilled specialists working on their implementation. Over 300 billion roubles in private investment have been brought in.
We continue to expand the research infrastructure to create unique end-to-end innovations that can be used in all spheres of life, and critical products and services to strengthen our country’s leadership in a number of areas.
Another crucial goal is to attract greater numbers of talented young people to research. For this purpose, we are creating comfortable environment for the professional growth of the younger generation of researchers.
We open laboratories for them at universities across the country, provide financial support through grants, bonuses and scholarships. We have recently established a very important presidential scholarship in the amount of 75,000 roubles monthly to be paid to graduate students and adjuncts that carry out research in priority areas of scientific and technological development of our country.
For them, the Government has increased a number of personalised scholarships bringing them up to 20,000 roubles. The procedure for awarding and paying these scholarships has been finalised as well.
And, of course, we remain open to international cooperation. Following the Presidential instructions, we have updated the megagrant programme to significantly increase the funding and deadlines for creating innovations. Young researchers can take part in this programme as well and obtain 15 million roubles annually for their projects during two years with an option to renew the subsidy for two more years.
Highly trained specialists are key to implementing eight national projects of technological leadership, which we have developed upon the initiative of the head of state. Each of them will include steps aimed at conducting research to promote the domestically-made technologies and training the personnel that we need.
The President noted that the effectiveness of any research programme should be measured by products, technologies and qualitative changes in the economy and in people’s lives. Today, we are presenting Government awards in science and technology to the researchers behind such innovations.
Among them are the results of a whole range of research in the space industry.
This is the first Russian space mirror X-ray telescope, the only one in the world with a wide field of view, which can perform breakthrough tasks in fundamental physics and astrophysics, and develop new science-intensive technologies.
That also includes innovative solutions designed to significantly amp up the production of radio-transparent antenna fairings for the guided missiles of various classes, and at the existing capacities.
Automated warning system for hazardous situations in the near-Earth space was created to provide better information support for Russia’s activities in outer space.
Several developers of technologies for the agro-industrial complex also became award laureates. These technologies include cultivation of high-quality potatoes; surveillance and control devices for obtaining environmentally safe agricultural products; geoinformation system for soil monitoring and protection; and methodology for modeling technological processes, equipment, and accelerated digital design of next-generation dairy farms.
We also present Government awards to teams of scientists for important achievements in medicine.
Employees of the Poliomyelitis Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences have created a biotechnological platform that makes it possible to launch a large-scale production of polio vaccines within a short period of time.
A team of scientists at the Samara State Medical University has developed a new approach to endoprosthetics. With the help of additive technologies it is now possible to produce a prosthesis for each patient tailored to his or her individual features using a 3D printer.
Artem Nosov, a young scientist from the Kirov Military Medical Academy, presented new products and ways of eliminating life-threatening consequences of wounds, injuries and diseases.
Several research studies which can be applied in the fuel and energy sector, heavy and light industry, were also honoured with high awards.
These are technical solutions for higher productivity and reliability of equipment at fuel and energy companies: innovative means of active fire protection of buildings in this sector; a system for monitoring the technical condition of trunk pipelines located in the permafrost zone and in the Arctic; scientifically substantiated approaches which make it possible to organise serial production of unique automated systems for melting and regulated heating of large-sized metal moulds, and new technologies of processing various metal materials for the construction of support structures in shipbuilding.
They also include state-of-the-art solutions for increasing the power, safety and efficiency of reactor units at nuclear power plants.
Thanks to the developments of a research team from Ivanovo Polytechnic University, innovative textiles with improved properties can now be used for the production of special clothing and other products for military personnel, firefighters, geologists, and oil workers.
And the array of data collected in the atlas of the Baikal region will help in implementing various tasks of the territory's development, as well as intellectual systems of remote monitoring of natural and man-made environment for the digital economy sectors.
All these technologies are much wanted by economic sectors and our citizens. They prove the enormous potential of Russian science.
Dear laureates,
I would like to congratulate you from the bottom of my heart. I thank you for your labour for the good of our country. And I wish you new professional achievements. After all, there are still many tasks to be solved. I believe that we will cope with them together.
