Samara University has become a centre for basic schools of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Samara National Research University has become a research and educational centre for basic schools of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In the Samara Region the status of such schools was given to the Lyceum of Aviation Profile № 135, Samara Gymnasiums № 1 and № 11, Samara Lyceum of Information Technologies and Togliatti Lyceum № 57.

Samara University will provide these educational institutions with assistance in the development of educational programmes aimed at developing the research activity of schoolchildren, and will also provide pupils with access to research projects that university scientists are working on.

The role of Samara University in the project is to support the methodological and scientific base of schools of a new format. The University scientists, including academicians, corresponding members of the Russian Academy of Sciences and employees of scientific laboratories will give popular scientific and educational lectures, work with schoolchildren on scientific projects. The task is to develop schoolchildren’s research skills in collaboration with scientists.

Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs of Samara University Andrey Gavrilov emphasizes: the main goal of the project is to train qualified staff who will ensure the country's transition to a new technological step in the near future.

"In the 90s and 2000s the link between schools and universities weakened. This project on supervising of the school educational process by the universities and the Academy of Sciences allows us to strengthen this connection. Together we will be able to identify capable children and, starting from school, to conduct intensive training for them, –  said Andrey Gavrilov. – The Head of State sets the task of transferring the economy to digital rails, to solve the issues of engineering and technical re-equipment. It is impossible to do this without people who could act as transformers in such a process in the near future. Therefore, I hope that the leading schools, classical university education and the scientific community will be able to provide the synergistic effect that will raise the level of education in our region and in the country as a whole to a new stage".

"Having become a centre for basic schools of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Samara University will be able to more effectively attract the most talented applicants to enter it," –  said Project Coordinator in the Region, Head of Samara University Student Enrollment Office Sergey Goryainov. – We have already signed agreements with the project participants and now we will be able to involve students from the strongest schools in the region into real scientific research, proving that it is possible to get a good education without leaving for the capital and abroad".

According to the Project Coordinator, the fact that Samara University has received the status of a scientific and educational centre for basic schools of the Russian Academy of Sciences is a merits recognition of the scientists of Samara University, where there are two academicians of the RAS and two corresponding members of the RAS, as well as international-level scientific laboratories.

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The creation of basic schools of the Russian Academy of Sciences is a joint project of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation. It aims to highlight strong schools, gymnasiums and lyceums in the regions of the country, which students show good results at olympiads and competitions of national and international level. At the first stage 108 institutions in 32 regions were selected as basic schools. Five of them are situated in the Samara Region.

The goal of the “Basic Schools of RAS” project is to create the most favourable conditions for identifying and teaching talented children, their orientation towards building a successful career in the field of science and high technologies.