The 2nd Young Scientists' Congress, a key event of this year's Decade of Science and Technology, concluded in Sochi.
Experts from 40 countries took part in the congress. Dilyara Bashirova, Elena Tarasova, Ilya Zemlenukhin, and Dmitry Goncharenko, young scientists from Volga Region University of Physical Culture, Sports and Tourism, were among the Russian participants.
For three days, the Congress platform in the Science and Arts Park of the Federal Territory "Sirius" discussed global challenges and how science can respond to them, technological solutions for domestic industry, agriculture, medicine and ecology.
One of the most anticipated events of the final day was the plenary session "Russian Science in the Age of International Competition". The co-chairs of the Decade Steering Committee - Andrey Fursenko, Assistant to the Russian President, and Dmitry Chernyshenko, Deputy Prime Minister; Gennady Krasnikov, President of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Valery Falkov, Head of the Ministry of Education and Science; Alexey Likhachev, Director General of Rosatom State Corporation; Victor Sadovnichy, RAS Academician and Rector of the Lomonosov Moscow State University; and other experts took part in the session.
"Russia and domestic science know how to focus on priorities in a difficult situation," Andrey Fursenko said at the congress. He noted that such events show how important it is to unite almost four thousand people on one platform.
