The Ministry of Education and Science and the Ministry of Education discussed the launch of a new All Russian project "Great Science in Schools".
As part of the program, the school's students will be able to visit leading scientific centers and mega-science facilities, get to know their work and deepen their knowledge of natural science subjects.
The ministers presented the project at the plenary session of the symposium in Novosibirsk, which brought together 120 teachers of physics, mathematics, computer science, chemistry and biology, school principals and students of grades 10 and 11 interns in the Siberian Federal District.
The sites supporting the project will be the SKIF synchrotron, the special educational and scientific center of Novosibirsk State University and the Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University. In the future, it is planned to connect the Kurchatov synchrotron radiation source, the PIK reactor, the NICA accelerator complex and other scientific facilities to the project.
"It is important for us to ensure that not only outstanding scientists will work at SKIF. It is important that this facility and others like it be open to our school students and teachers," said the head of the Ministry of Education and Science Valery Falkov.
The project was launched in accordance with the President's instructions. Its purpose is to involve teachers and school students in research activities.
"This is a new stage in the development of scientific knowledge and motivation of school students for research. Thanks to such projects, children will choose to stay and realize themselves in our country, in Russian scientific institutes, and develop our country," said Minister of Education Sergey Karabtsov.
The academic year, for all school students, as part of the course "Russia. My horizons", there will be lessons on "mega-science", in which students will be told about scientific facilities in different regions of Russia.