Rosatom State Corporation, the partner of the Championship, applies the developments of NUST MISIS young scientists

Rosatom State Corporation has selected 10 scientific research projects of NUST MISIS young scientists with the potential to be implemented at the corporation's enterprises. During the year, scientific teams under the guidance of mentors will bring their developments to the stage of readiness for commercialization. Grant support for projects that will find a partner in Rosatom will amount to 800 thousand rubles due to the contribution of Rosatom State Corporation to the NUST MISIS endowment fund.

Rosatom State Corporation and NUST MISIS are implementing a research grant program based on the participation of the endowment fund to train young researchers capable of creating innovative products and solutions that are in demand by industry and with further commercialization.

The project is based on the Lean R&D concept — the methodology of creating a sought—after competitive product and simultaneously training scientists of a new formation - a researcher-organizer.

"The main criteria for choosing cases for scientific projects were the final usefulness of the developments and their potential relevance within the state corporation. The second feature of the new stage of the program was the integration of the educational part into the competitive process. Rosatom State Corporation experts plan to help participants acquire customer development skills by practicing the basics of interaction and proper communication with a potential customer of scientific projects.", - said the Deputy General Director of JSC "Breakthrough" of the State Corporation "Rosatom" Nikolai Mantsevich, 

More than 30 projects were submitted to the competition, of which 10 were selected, showing the highest level of technological readiness of their development. During 2021, research teams led by mentors will bring their developments to the stage of readiness for commercialization using the SCRAM methodology (effective project management using short time intervals) and the methodology of technological readiness and market readiness levels. Based on the results, 4 projects will be selected for implementation at Rosatom enterprises.

One of the features of the project implemented by Rosatom State Corporation and NUST MISIS is the financing of the initial phase of technological development, which is not a generally accepted practice of interaction between universities and industrial partners. Funding is provided in the form of research grants due to the contribution of the state corporation to the endowment fund of the university.

"Rosatom State Corporation is one of the key partners of NUST MISIS, together with which we carry out not only a number of R&D projects in breakthrough scientific areas in the interests of the nuclear industry, but also a number of projects aimed at supporting young researchers. The allocation of grants to scientists in whose research the state corporation is interested contributes to the formation of a new competence in the field of organizing scientific research, the results of which will be in demand by the industry. According to the results of the pilot project, which took place in 2016-2017, the participants submitted 5 patent applications, created 6 know-how, prepared 11 scientific articles, defended 1 PhD thesis", — noted by the first Vice-rector of NUST MISIS Sergey Salikhov.

The topics of the 10 selected projects are devoted to the creation of new materials that are complex in composition or structure, as well as devices for the nuclear industry in the field of nanotechnology, processing of man-made raw materials, biomedicine, additive technologies, etc. The purpose of the ongoing scientific competition for grants is to develop research in the interests of the nuclear industry and to involve scientific groups, undergraduates and graduate students of the university in solving urgent problems of the industry. One of the key requirements is that the scientific group should include at least 30% of young researchers under the age of 35.

NUST MISIS — one of the first universities in Russia to implement the ideology of concentrating scientific research at the university. It is currently the leading technological university in the country. At the same time, he possesses key industry scientific and technical competencies in the field of materials science and is actively developing new directions and tools. I would like to mention the unique practice of systematic and prudent use of the endowment fund for the development of scientific and engineering research conducted by NUST MISIS, — the representative of the scientific unit of the Rosatom State Corporation emphasized Pavel Sushkov.

Summing up and final project defenses will take place in November 2021.

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