"Reforms together"

“For me, this is the first trip to the scientific center outside of Moscow,” the deputy noted. Minister of Science and Education Igor Fedyukin at a meeting with scientists of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Justifying the choice of the city in which his first business trip took place, he said that "it could not be otherwise, given the role of Novosibirsk and Akademgorodok in Russian science." Predicting one of the acute issues, he reported the recall of the order about the criteria for highlighting increased scholarships to graduate students in certain scientific disciplines, the list of which caused a misunderstanding of the scientific community. “We are not smarter than you in the ministry,” said Fedyukin, “we have a service unit.” Let's look for the right solutions together. ”

The meeting discussed a wide range of issues: from the global positions of Russian science to the nutrition of students of the SUNC (FMS) at NSU. Deputy. Director of the Institute of Mathematics. S.L. Sobolev SB RAS, DOK. physical. Sciences Evgeny Vdovin touched on the topic of academic mobility in conjunction with the RFFI program of the same name. In his opinion, to demand from the applicants a grant of permanent employment and the contract term up to 6 months is irrational. In turn, the main scientific secretary of the SB RAS, academician Nikolai Lyakhov proposed “cancel serfdom” by creating a maneuverable housing fund for invited researchers and lecturers. Igor Fedyukin said that a number of proposals can be taken into account at the next stage of the federal target program (FCP) "Personnel".

Many speeches concerned the problems of financing fundamental research: in particular, the opacity of the examination and decision -making on grants, red tape and excess reporting were noted. “The level of bureaucratic load makes us uncompetitive,” noted the chairman of the Council of Scientific Youth of the Institute of Chemical Kinetics and combustion. V.V. Voevodsky SB RAS, cand. physical. Sciences Vitaly Kiselev, I am not an anarchist and understand that the documents should be. But their number is not motivated by anything. ” In several speeches, a proposal was made to limit the reporting of grants of articles in rating scientific journals, primarily in international ones. “If there are articles,” Evgeny Vdovin emphasized, “then there is no need to write any reports except financial.”

During the meeting, a proposal was expressed in the structure of the Russian Institute “Institute-Business Incubator” as a pilot project. “We are ready to become an experimental platform,” said the chairman of the SB RAS, academician Alexander Aseev. He called on the new leadership of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation to actively cooperate with organizations of young scientists: “Young people have drives, they do not want to leave, want to work in Siberia, but they are still not involved in the processes of development and ensuring science.”

In turn, Igor Fedyukin noted: “Those who will lead the institutes in years through ... in this hall are sitting in this room ...

And the level of domestic science will depend on them. In the global arena today we compete not only with the USA and Europe, but also with China and other countries that have started from more distant positions, but they run faster than us. ” Summarizing the results of the meeting, he said that reforms for science should only be carried out “together with the scientific community”. Today we discussed the specific changes that we already make and will make, relying on the opinion of our colleagues. The ministry will try to reduce reporting - all of the one that does not allow to really control the quality. We intend to support young scientists more strongly, today it was about the development of the post -Dodok bets and grants that would help at an important stage immediately after defending the dissertation. Changes will be made to the FCP "Personnel".

“The changes are already going on,” said the deputy minister, “they are just not noticeable for everyone yet.”

Based on materials from the Center for Public Relations SB RAS