The Russian President noted the importance of projects for young people as social elevators

Our response to Elon Musk: what Putin said about supporting talented youth in Russia

The President noted that the number of good specialists who remain in the country is growing.

"How's that for you, Elon Musk?" With this popular meme, as it turned out in a conversation with TASS correspondent Andrei Vandenko for the project "20 questions for Vladimir Putin"the president is not familiar. But the head of state knows exactly what the young American scientist is famous for, and, moreover, he is sure that he has worthy competitors in Russia.

The correspondents of the Future of Russia portal figured out why Kaspersky is no worse than Musk, who "lit" the Sirius star, what social elevators young people need and what the state is doing to keep young professionals in the country. National projects".

"The brightest star in the sky"

Supporting talented youth is one of the key issues for the country. For example, the national project "Education" has a separate federal project "Success of every child", one of the main goals of which is to identify and support talented and gifted children.

Meanwhile, the first and "brightest star" among talent support projects was lit thanks to Putin. It was on his initiative that the leading educational center for talented children, Sirius, was created in Sochi.

"Here's Sirius... by the way, I came up with the name myself. I was sitting there thinking about what to call it, then I remembered that the brightest star in the sky is Sirius. The brightest guys gather there. That's why I suggested calling it that. That's the name that stuck," the president shared.

According to the president, such a system of special training was practiced back in the Soviet Union, when various physics, mathematics, biology schools, music schools at conservatories, and ballet schools were created. However, the peculiarity of Sirius is that it "lights up the stars" for both athletes and mathematicians on the same site. "For example, athletes communicate with mathematicians, and mathematicians, maybe for the first time, personally go to see how hockey or ballet functions. They get involved in physical education. It turned out very well, I really like it," the president said.

Today, 800 children from 10 to 17 years old come to Sirius every month from all regions of Russia, and in the four years since its establishment, about 40,000 schoolchildren have passed through the center. The next step, according to the head of state, will be the creation of a modern university and a technopark at the center. The decree on the establishment of the Innovation Science and Technology Center (INTC) was signed in November last year by former Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.

On the model of Sirius, centers for identifying and supporting gifted children began to open in the regions. As part of the national Education project, such educational centers should be established throughout the country by 2024.

In addition, projects aimed at improving the quality of school and additional education are being implemented: according to the national project, children's technoparks "Kvantorium", digital education centers IT cube are being created in the country, and a distance learning system is being developed. It is also important that all these innovations do not bypass the most remote territories - small towns and villages. So, summing up the results of the first year of the national project "Education", Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova, who oversees the social block in the government, named the creation of more than two thousand "Point of Growth" centers on the basis of rural schools as one of the main achievements: the newest equipment was purchased in them, thanks to which schoolchildren will be able to study computer science in a new way, engage in 3D modeling and robotics.

The Land of Opportunity

However, the emerging system does not just identify talented children: in order for them to continue studying at domestic universities, and then work at domestic enterprises and not go abroad, effective social elevators must appear in the country.

For this purpose, the Russia - Land of Opportunities platform was created, the first and main project of which was the Leaders of Russia management competition, launched in 2017 to find and support promising and young leaders. To date, over 600,000 people have already passed through it, and at the end of two seasons (the third is in full swing), more than 150 winners and finalists have received senior positions in regional and federal authorities and beyond: in particular, two became governors, and five became deputy federal ministers.

However, according to the head of state, the essence of the "Leaders of Russia" is not so much to solve personnel issues. "We just give people the opportunity to improve their knowledge and competencies later, but at the same time, when representatives of either large companies or ministries and departments work with these people, they immediately look for employees in this environment," Putin explained in an interview with TASS.

According to him, "Russia is a country of opportunities" is "a whole set of tools" that "works very effectively."

Indeed, in addition to the "Leaders", 23 projects are presented on the platform, 12 of which are being implemented under the national project."Education". They are aimed at a wide variety of audiences: from schoolchildren to students and young professionals aged 35 years.

For example, in the "Case-In" championship, in which participants compete to solve engineering cases, there are several leagues, the youngest of which is for students in grades 9-11. Participation in this competition gives school graduates additional points for the Unified State Exam when applying to some universities, and students the opportunity to receive an invitation to an internship or even a job from partner companies.

There is a project "Professional training 2.0" for college and university students. Its participants have the opportunity to select cases provided by various companies and executive authorities, and based on them to make a course or thesis, which in the future may not be theoretical, but quite practical. This year, the winners were more than 500 people, each of whom received an internship invitation.

One of the newest projects that appeared on the platform was the competition for young teachers "Teacher of the Future". It was proposed to be created by the teachers themselves, and about 40 thousand applications were received for participation in the competition. There is no upper age limit in the competition: both young teachers and more experienced ones participate. The semi-finals will last until the end of March, and the final stage of the competition will be held in April this year. According to the results of the competition, 30 winning teams will be selected from 100 teams of teachers, who will have the opportunity to work with the heads and methodologists of leading educational institutions in Russia.

From Iskander to E-mobile

The Supreme Commander explained why it is so important when the country is "armed" with young specialists and especially scientists using the example of the defense industry. According to him, the famous Iskander and the Peresvet laser complex were created by young people who "recently came from the institute." At the same time, not much is officially known about the developers of Iskander, they are generally referred to as the team of the Engineering Design Bureau led by Valery Kashin, who was 52 years old at the time of the first public presentation of the complex (Kashin was born in 1947, the complex was presented in 1999). However, in 2014, Alexey Shatikhin, Vitaly Danilenko, and Georgy Vasiliev were awarded the President's Science and Innovation Award for Young Scientists "for their participation in the creation of an automation and control system and flight mission preparation facilities for the Iskander-M ground Forces missile system," which indirectly confirms the president's words today. Shakhitin was 32 years old at the time, Danilenko and Vasiliev were 35 years old.

Supporting young scientists and creating all the necessary conditions for personnel to prefer working at home, which the President also mentions in an interview, is one of the main goals of the national Science project. For this purpose, new world-class laboratories and centers are being created in the country, the instrument base is being updated, cooperation with the international community is being maintained, as well as cooperation between science and business.

It is not only the country's defense industry that boasts promising young talents. So, in a joint the project from the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation portal "The Future of Russia. National Projects" talks about specialists in the fields of IT, artificial intelligence, agriculture, economics, neuroscience, genetics, mathematics - the list can go on indefinitely. Eg, Alexey Perepelitsa from Voronezh At the age of 30, he received a scholarship from the President of Russia twice, became a laureate of the Innovation Cup, and also participated or even led 14 scientific projects in the field of quantum dot spectroscopy in order to find new ways to treat cancer. Naida Magomedova Dmitry Chirkin, 33, from Kazan, is still a fourth-year undergraduate student, but has already achieved notable results in researching the banking sector. In order to implement his own projects on financial literacy of the population, he is creating a series of unmanned vehicles for KAMAZ.

"In order for people to have a desire to realize themselves in their own country, the state, of course, must do more and more for this, and we will do this. I believe that the number of good specialists who remain in the country is becoming more and more, and the fact that our specialists are finding themselves in the global labor market indicates that we have a good higher school," Putin says in an interview for the TASS project.

The president also mentions scientific developments in the business environment - in the context of Mikhail Prokhorov's E-mobile and Kaspersky Lab. Today, successful projects in cooperation between science and business are not limited to the cases of these two companies - for its development in the country, world-class scientific and educational centers (RECs) are being built within the framework of a specialized national project. Five RECs have already been established in Russia, and five more will be identified by the end of the year.

Photo: Alexey Druzhinin/Press Service of the President of the Russian Federation/TASS

Yuri Kukin, Irina Mandrykina

A source: The Future of Russia National projects