Mikhail Beznin, Vice-rector for scientific affairs, congratulated the winners of the “Competition for the best basic research projects of the RFBR”. It should be noted that seven teams of scientists have received grants from The Russian Foundation for Basic Research this year. This result has become the best success of the VSU scientists in the last few years.
The scientific teams will have to complete their work within three years. The annual amount of financial support from the RFBR for each project will range from 1 million to 1 million 250 thousand rubles.
The vice-rector for scientific affairs of VSU mentioned at the meeting that it was very important to take active part in grant competitions of the Russian Science Foundation, Russian Foundation for Basic Research, Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Russian Federation and other organizations.
Organizational issues of scientific activities at VSU in 2020 were also discussed at the meeting. Among them, special attention was drawn to updating the research foci, publishing materials in journals indexed in the Web of Science and Scopus, innovative activities in relation to regional institutions, enterprises, organizations, and reviewing the system of scientific events.