Vladimir Putin announced the work of the Russia – Land of Opportunities platform with science: Society: Russia: Lenta.ru
Russian President Vladimir Putin held a meeting with the participants of the congress of young scientists, appreciated the work on the formation of a scientific personnel reserve within the framework of the Leaders of Russia competition – the flagship project of the presidential platform Russia – the Land of Opportunities.
The President discussed with scientists the issues of attracting talented youth to the sphere, as well as the strategy of scientific and technological development of Russia.
“In some regions there are examples of successful work of personnel reserves, but there are regions where there are not enough talented managers. In the scientific and educational environment, there are many intellectually developed people who can progress under the guidance of successful and experienced colleagues. Without a talent pool, it is extremely difficult for young people to get involved in this work, so we discussed a lot and made steps to create a talent pool at the state level, ”says Pavel Strizhak, professor at the Tomsk Polytechnic University.
Vladimir Putin also answered questions from the participants.
“You probably know in our already well-known platform -“ Russia is a country of opportunities ”- contests -“ Leaders of Russia ”are used. Quite a lot of efforts are being made in scientific areas there. And people appear interesting and creative, and their promotion is organized, he believes that it should be done properly, ”the Russian president notes.
For a two-year period in the competition “Leaders of Russia” there is a specialization “Science”. A total of 6137 people registered to participate in it. They passed remote qualifying tests, performed tasks for the Test of Management Competencies. Based on the selection results, the best participants were invited to the face-to-face stage.