ITALY TO INVEST 40 MILLION EURO IN JOINT PROJECT WITH RUSSIA TO SIMULATE  SPACE FLIGHTS

        A consortium of 20 Italian universities and industrial companies intends to invest 40 million Euro in a joint experiment with Russia to imitate several manned space flights to other planets.
        Japan, France, Germany also have been interested  to take part in this joint project with Russia. On the basis of the common technological know-how new technologies will be developed  not only for scientific purposes in a space flight but  also for commercial goals.
         Preliminarily, representatives of the German, French and Italian space agencies have given their consent for participation in the project.

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        "SOCIAL AND CULTURAL FACTORS OF INNOVATIVE DEVELOPMENT OF RUSSIA" RVC STUDY

       Russian Venture Company (RVC) has published the results of a large study "Social and cultural factors of innovative development of Russia."
        The study allowed determining the values and behavior  of the population of the Russian Federation, affecting the development of technological entrepreneurship and the formation of an innovative economy.
         Main conclusion: 48% of Russians believe in the potential of scientific and technological progress. Meanwhile, this attitude towards science and technology in Russia turned out to be an average of 20% more positive than in Europe.
         The study of such scale was held in Russia for the first time ever and was implemented by the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (MSSES) in partnership with RVC, Moscow State University, Institute of national projects and CSR. During 2016, a survey of 6,000 respondents was conducted in 10 Russian regions. According to its results, a cluster analysis of the data was carried out. The researchers identified groups of population by their views on scientific progress and technological innovation, as well as studied the economic activity, the attitude and willingness of Russians to entrepreneurial activity.
        The full results of the study can be found at the following link:
http://www.rvc.ru/upload/iblock/d10/attitudes_to_technologies_and_innovations_in_Russia.pdf

THE SCIENTIFIC  AND TECHNOLOGICAL  DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY  OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION FOR A LONG-TERM PERIOD

 President  Vladimir Putin signed Executive Order on the Scientific and Technological Development Strategy of the Russian Federation.
        The Strategy sets out the goal and the main objectives of Russia’s scientific and technological development, the principles, priorities and main areas and measures for implementing the state policy in this sphere, as well as the expected results of the Strategy’s implementation, namely Russia’s sustainable, dynamic and balanced scientific and technological development in the long term.
         The Strategy is designed to provide scientific and technological support to the attainment of Russia’s national goals and priorities as set out in strategic planning documents.
        The Strategy provides for creating technologies, products and services that will improve the quality of life in Russia and will be marketable around the world. The goal of Russia’s scientific and technological development as set out in the Strategy is to ensure the country’s independence and competitiveness by creating an efficient system for building up and using the nation’s intellectual potential.
         http://en.kremlin.ru/acts/news/53383
         Document is available at http://sntr-rf.ru/

ITMO UNIVERSITY, A PROJECT 5-100 PARTICIPANT, RECOGNISED AS THE WORLD’S BEST UNIVERSITY IN PROGRAMMING

HackerRank, a technology firm, presented its rating of world’s best universities in programming and awarded the first place to ITMO University, one of the Project 5-100 universities.
         In the ranking, Russia was also represented by another university from the northern capital – St. Petersburg State University claimed rank 6. Times Higher Education website has also published the HackerRank league tables.
         HackerRank runs hackathons where contestants attack issues topical for businesses or consumers; corporations use hackathons to discover outstanding software developers.
         The top 10 list of universities also includes two Indian institutions, as well as universities from China, Vietnam, USA, Canada, Ukraine and Sweden (one per country).
         Unlike academic rankings (which focus on such indicators as citations, reputation, scientific publications etc.), HackerRank reflects students’ programming skills. It is based on the results of University Rankings Competition, a global contest involving over 5500 students from 126 universities from all over the world. Both the number of competing students and their results were used to compile the ranking. Participation of at least 10 students in the Competition made their university eligible for the ranking.

         More information: http://5top100.com/news/49563/