The Russian Academy of Sciences announces a competition for the RAS Prize for the best works on the popularization of science in 2019

The competition is held in the following categories:

• “Best Popular Science Book”;
• “The best journalistic work to popularize science”;
• "Best Popular Science Video"

Monographs (including collective ones with no more than five authors) on popular science topics published during 2017–2019 in printed or electronic form can be submitted to the competition in the category “Best Popular Science Book.”

For the competition in the category “Best journalistic work on the popularization of science” - articles or series of articles, as well as other journalistic works on popular science topics, published in 2017–2019 in print or electronic media, as well as posted on electronic resources.

For the competition in the category “Best Popular Science Video” - video lectures or series of video lectures, documentaries and other video materials on popular science topics created and posted on the Internet during 2017–2019, including those published in electronic media.

The right to nominate candidates for the award is granted to:

• academicians of the Russian Academy of Sciences, corresponding members of the Russian Academy of Sciences and professors of the Russian Academy of Sciences;
• laureates of the RAS Prize for the best works on the popularization of science;
• laureates of the RAS gold medal for outstanding achievements in the field of dissemination of scientific knowledge;
• scientific and scientific-technical societies;
• scientists, scientific, scientific-methodological, scientific-technical councils of scientific institutions and educational organizations of higher education, regardless of their departmental affiliation;
• media specializing in science and education.

The application for the award must include:

• letter of nomination of applicant(s) in any form;
• the name of the nomination for which the work is nominated;
• full title of the work;
• a brief summary of the work (no more than 5000 characters with spaces);
• brief information about the publisher, media or resource on which the work is posted;
• an electronic version of the work or a link to the Internet resource on which the work is posted;
• information about the leading authors of the work nominated for the competition (for each co-author, but no more than five people in the application):
  • last name, first name, patronymic of the author;
  • place of work and position held;
  • scientific degree and academic title of the author (if available);
  • contact information (mailing address, telephone and email address);
  • the author's consent to the processing of his (her) personal data and to participate in the RAS competition (see the form on the RAS website: ras.ru/FStorage/Download.aspx?id=82df1f46-54ec-496c-9c48-54aa966fe87b ).

Applications for participation in the competition must be submitted to the RAS Commission for the Popularization of Science in electronic form at awardRAS.2019@yandex.ru no later than September 15, 2019 . The printed version of the application must be sent to the Russian Academy of Sciences no later than September 15, 2019 (by postmark) at the address: 119991, Moscow, Leninsky Prospekt, 14, to the executive secretary of the RAS commission for the popularization of science S. S. Davydenko.

The competition is held in accordance with the Regulations on the RAS Prize for the best works on the popularization of science, approved by Resolution of the Presidium of the RAS dated May 28, 2019 No. 100 (see ras.ru/presidium/documents/directions.aspx?ID=077730e9-ef2b-4459-9d59- e1bc1fc11fcb ).