On November 22, in Moscow there opened the 5th Professor Forum titled Science, Education and Global Challenges. The Forum will run until November 24, attended by representatives of leading universities in Russia and CIS countries, the Russian Ministry of Science and Higher Education Science, the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the Russian Academy of Education. Saratov University is represented at the forum by Rector Aleksei Chumachenko.

Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation Valerii Falkov noted at the plenary session that the forum had become a real dialogue platform between universities and government representatives over the past five years.

‘This year, the topic of the forum was not chosen by chance. Due to the data we have gathered in 2022, we have understood that we must look at everything we did earlier from a different angle. This concerns the interaction of students and professors, the evaluation of research, the effectiveness of university management, academic mobility, and international affairs. We need to continue working in all these areas, but in a different way, adjusted for the challenges of the time,’ the minister noted.

Dmitrii Chernyshenko, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, joined the participants of the forum in a video message. He marked that the Cabinet of Ministers for the first time had assigned priorities to all budget expenditures on civil science. The examination and prioritisation of all state tasks was carried out – this is more than 12 thousand scientific topics.

At the forum, the national awards of the Russian Professorial Assembly are traditionally presented. This year, Professor of the Department of Analytical Chemistry and Chemical Ecology, SSU, Sergei Shtykov became the winner of the Professor of the Year 2022 national award in the Chemistry nomination.

The forum will last for three days and includes sessions of sections, including The vector of higher education development: strategy and tactics, The development of Russian science, intellectual property, and transfer of scientific technologies, The best university practices in youth education, and others, as well as a meeting of university presidents.

On November 24, Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy, SSU, Mikhail Orlov will deliver his report in the Philosophy section. It is titled The game strategies in education: risks and new opportunities of the digital age.

The Forum is held to support the Decade of Science and Technology, discuss current issues and scientific achievements, identify priorities for the development of science and education, as well as the role of the scientific and educational elite of Russia in their implementation.