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ANDREI FURSENKO: "THE NORTH CAUCASUS SHOULD DEVELOP COMPREHENSIVELY"
Vestnik Kavkaza, Russia
Feb 12 2014
12 February 2014 - 10:57am
Interviewed by Daria Melikhova, exclusively for Vestnik Kavkaza
Former Russian Education Minister Andrei Fursenko now heads the board
of trustees of the Russian Science Foundation and works for the
board of the Russian Council on Foreign Affairs. Mr Fursenko told
Vestnik Kavkaza about science and education in the North Caucasus,
as well as about humanitarian cooperation with the South Caucasus.
- How do you assess the state of education and science in the North
Caucasus?
- The North Caucasus Federal District is a region where the development
of the humanities is particularly important, because the Caucasus
has always been a place where national culture and the interaction of
different peoples play a very important role. And this is precisely
the responsibility of the social sciences: how to form interactions
to the benefit of each and every person and to the country as a whole.
In the areas of natural sciences in the Caucasus there are several
interesting directions and very interesting institutions, in
particular, in Kabardino- Balkaria, North Ossetia and Stavropol
Territory. The newly-created North Caucasus Federal University has
been established precisely in order to coordinate and consolidate
the scientific forces in the Caucasus. One should see concrete work,
go there, meet different scientists.
This region is very important for the country. And this means it must
develop comprehensively. And education and science are an inalienable
and very important part of the development of each people, each region.
- How are scientific contacts with the countries of the South Caucasus
developing?
- Once we worked together on education, but also in science.
Thus, not accidentally, Azerbaijan opened a branch of Moscow State
University, because it was aimed not only at teaching the youth,
but also at ensuring that there was fully-fledged joint research with
our colleagues from Azerbaijani scientific institutes and universities.
There were outstanding mathematicians in Georgia. Nikolay Muskelishvili
was one of the pillars of Soviet mathematics. And my colleagues,
with whom I did pure modelling, they worked in universities, in the
Georgian Academy of Science. So Georgian science had potential, and
I'm one hundred percent sure that it is preserved, therefore I hope
very much that science will be the direction from which, perhaps,
we will start restoring relations with this country.
Successful cooperation with Armenia has developed in the field
of information technology. It is a very concrete thing, so it is
important to conduct scientific cooperation with any country on
specific projects. We need to do this not because we have been
ordered to do so, but in order to bring benefit, not only to the
scientists from collaborating countries, but also to the economies
of these countries. It seems that today such opportunities exist,
and something is already developing.
***
Speaking of the state of the Russian science and education, Mr Fursenko
noted that since about 2006, we can see a steady increase in the number
of scientists under the age of 40. "Today the possibility of paying
good scientists, good young scientists and giving them the opportunity
of interesting work (I mean the special devices and the infrastructure
for research) are very much advanced. We have never had such a level
of quality and quantity of scientific equipment as we have now. We
have dozens of leading centers, and the quality of the scientific
infrastructure there is in no way inferior to foreign centers".
"We have lost the generation of people who are now 45-55 years old.
These people were in a very difficult situation. In the 1990s they
worked in science, and some of them left it. You know that in all
Russian banks, in all the commercial enterprises the top management
mostly consists of people from science, people who were quite
successful in science," says Mr Fursenko. " Some people left for
other countries, because they wanted to continue to work in science,
believing that in the 1990s the conditions for this were very limited.
Today, some of these people come back for good, some return for
a while, but they cooperate with their former employers and other
institutions very actively."
According to Mr Fursenko, today full-time jobs in Russian scientific
institutions are in such demand that there is a queue for them. "There
are no vacancies. Both academic institutions and the Graduate School
said that it is necessary to create conditions for the young to stay.
Therefore, we are creating new tools now. One of the aspects is
supporting communities that to a large extent consist of young people."
Speaking of the promising directions of science, Mr Fursenko said,
"It is very important to be competitive not only in terms of academic
or university science, but also in terms of the industry that would
be in demand. I think in the near short term a very interesting
direction for Russia will be related to the environment. I believe
that in the next 5-10 years, the issue of the environment, of saving
it, will be a highly-paid, well-funded direction.
Nuclear energy is also developing actively. It is an area that requires
work with new materials, and in the field of elementary particles,
and research in the structure of matter. Information technology are
needed there as well. Also a very interesting area is associated
with medicine. These are areas that are on the border between the
nuclear industry, nuclear science and medicine. There is much to do,
and I think that many young people are well aware of it."
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Subject: Andrei Fursenko: "The North Caucasus should develop comprehensively"
Vestnik Kavkaza, Russia
Feb 12 2014
Andrei Fursenko: "The North Caucasus should develop comprehensively"
12 February 2014 - 10:57am
Interviewed by Daria Melikhova, exclusively for Vestnik Kavkaza
Former Russian Education Minister Andrei Fursenko now heads the board
of trustees of the Russian Science Foundation and works for the board
of the Russian Council on Foreign Affairs. Mr Fursenko told Vestnik
Kavkaza about science and education in the North Caucasus, as well as
about humanitarian cooperation with the South Caucasus.
- How do you assess the state of education and science in the North Caucasus?
- The North Caucasus Federal District is a region where the
development of the humanities is particularly important, because the
Caucasus has always been a place where national culture and the
interaction of different peoples play a very important role. And this
is precisely the responsibility of the social sciences: how to form
interactions to the benefit of each and every person and to the
country as a whole.
In the areas of natural sciences in the Caucasus there are several
interesting directions and very interesting institutions, in
particular, in Kabardino- Balkaria, North Ossetia and Stavropol
Territory. The newly-created North Caucasus Federal University has
been established precisely in order to coordinate and consolidate the
scientific forces in the Caucasus. One should see concrete work, go
there, meet different scientists.
This region is very important for the country. And this means it must
develop comprehensively. And education and science are an inalienable
and very important part of the development of each people, each
region.
- How are scientific contacts with the countries of the South Caucasus
developing?
- Once we worked together on education, but also in science.
Thus, not accidentally, Azerbaijan opened a branch of Moscow State
University, because it was aimed not only at teaching the youth, but
also at ensuring that there was fully-fledged joint research with our
colleagues from Azerbaijani scientific institutes and universities.
There were outstanding mathematicians in Georgia. Nikolay
Muskelishvili was one of the pillars of Soviet mathematics. And my
colleagues, with whom I did pure modelling, they worked in
universities, in the Georgian Academy of Science. So Georgian science
had potential, and I'm one hundred percent sure that it is preserved,
therefore I hope very much that science will be the direction from
which, perhaps, we will start restoring relations with this country.
Successful cooperation with Armenia has developed in the field of
information technology. It is a very concrete thing, so it is
important to conduct scientific cooperation with any country on
specific projects. We need to do this not because we have been ordered
to do so, but in order to bring benefit, not only to the scientists
from collaborating countries, but also to the economies of these
countries. It seems that today such opportunities exist, and something
is already developing.
***
Speaking of the state of the Russian science and education, Mr
Fursenko noted that since about 2006, we can see a steady increase in
the number of scientists under the age of 40. "Today the possibility
of paying good scientists, good young scientists and giving them the
opportunity of interesting work (I mean the special devices and the
infrastructure for research) are very much advanced. We have never had
such a level of quality and quantity of scientific equipment as we
have now. We have dozens of leading centers, and the quality of the
scientific infrastructure there is in no way inferior to foreign
centers".
"We have lost the generation of people who are now 45-55 years old.
These people were in a very difficult situation. In the 1990s they
worked in science, and some of them left it. You know that in all
Russian banks, in all the commercial enterprises the top management
mostly consists of people from science, people who were quite
successful in science," says Mr Fursenko. " Some people left for other
countries, because they wanted to continue to work in science,
believing that in the 1990s the conditions for this were very limited.
Today, some of these people come back for good, some return for a
while, but they cooperate with their former employers and other
institutions very actively."
According to Mr Fursenko, today full-time jobs in Russian scientific
institutions are in such demand that there is a queue for them. "There
are no vacancies. Both academic institutions and the Graduate School
said that it is necessary to create conditions for the young to stay.
Therefore, we are creating new tools now. One of the aspects is
supporting communities that to a large extent consist of young
people."
Speaking of the promising directions of science, Mr Fursenko said, "It
is very important to be competitive not only in terms of academic or
university science, but also in terms of the industry that would be in
demand. I think in the near short term a very interesting direction
for Russia will be related to the environment. I believe that in the
next 5-10 years, the issue of the environment, of saving it, will be a
highly-paid, well-funded direction.
Nuclear energy is also developing actively. It is an area that
requires work with new materials, and in the field of elementary
particles, and research in the structure of matter. Information
technology are needed there as well. Also a very interesting area is
associated with medicine. These are areas that are on the border
between the nuclear industry, nuclear science and medicine. There is
much to do, and I think that many young people are well aware of it."
http://vestnikkavkaza.net/interviews/society/51196.html
Vestnik Kavkaza, Russia
Feb 12 2014
12 February 2014 - 10:57am
Interviewed by Daria Melikhova, exclusively for Vestnik Kavkaza
Former Russian Education Minister Andrei Fursenko now heads the board
of trustees of the Russian Science Foundation and works for the
board of the Russian Council on Foreign Affairs. Mr Fursenko told
Vestnik Kavkaza about science and education in the North Caucasus,
as well as about humanitarian cooperation with the South Caucasus.
- How do you assess the state of education and science in the North
Caucasus?
- The North Caucasus Federal District is a region where the development
of the humanities is particularly important, because the Caucasus
has always been a place where national culture and the interaction of
different peoples play a very important role. And this is precisely
the responsibility of the social sciences: how to form interactions
to the benefit of each and every person and to the country as a whole.
In the areas of natural sciences in the Caucasus there are several
interesting directions and very interesting institutions, in
particular, in Kabardino- Balkaria, North Ossetia and Stavropol
Territory. The newly-created North Caucasus Federal University has
been established precisely in order to coordinate and consolidate
the scientific forces in the Caucasus. One should see concrete work,
go there, meet different scientists.
This region is very important for the country. And this means it must
develop comprehensively. And education and science are an inalienable
and very important part of the development of each people, each region.
- How are scientific contacts with the countries of the South Caucasus
developing?
- Once we worked together on education, but also in science.
Thus, not accidentally, Azerbaijan opened a branch of Moscow State
University, because it was aimed not only at teaching the youth,
but also at ensuring that there was fully-fledged joint research with
our colleagues from Azerbaijani scientific institutes and universities.
There were outstanding mathematicians in Georgia. Nikolay Muskelishvili
was one of the pillars of Soviet mathematics. And my colleagues,
with whom I did pure modelling, they worked in universities, in the
Georgian Academy of Science. So Georgian science had potential, and
I'm one hundred percent sure that it is preserved, therefore I hope
very much that science will be the direction from which, perhaps,
we will start restoring relations with this country.
Successful cooperation with Armenia has developed in the field
of information technology. It is a very concrete thing, so it is
important to conduct scientific cooperation with any country on
specific projects. We need to do this not because we have been
ordered to do so, but in order to bring benefit, not only to the
scientists from collaborating countries, but also to the economies
of these countries. It seems that today such opportunities exist,
and something is already developing.
***
Speaking of the state of the Russian science and education, Mr Fursenko
noted that since about 2006, we can see a steady increase in the number
of scientists under the age of 40. "Today the possibility of paying
good scientists, good young scientists and giving them the opportunity
of interesting work (I mean the special devices and the infrastructure
for research) are very much advanced. We have never had such a level
of quality and quantity of scientific equipment as we have now. We
have dozens of leading centers, and the quality of the scientific
infrastructure there is in no way inferior to foreign centers".
"We have lost the generation of people who are now 45-55 years old.
These people were in a very difficult situation. In the 1990s they
worked in science, and some of them left it. You know that in all
Russian banks, in all the commercial enterprises the top management
mostly consists of people from science, people who were quite
successful in science," says Mr Fursenko. " Some people left for
other countries, because they wanted to continue to work in science,
believing that in the 1990s the conditions for this were very limited.
Today, some of these people come back for good, some return for
a while, but they cooperate with their former employers and other
institutions very actively."
According to Mr Fursenko, today full-time jobs in Russian scientific
institutions are in such demand that there is a queue for them. "There
are no vacancies. Both academic institutions and the Graduate School
said that it is necessary to create conditions for the young to stay.
Therefore, we are creating new tools now. One of the aspects is
supporting communities that to a large extent consist of young people."
Speaking of the promising directions of science, Mr Fursenko said,
"It is very important to be competitive not only in terms of academic
or university science, but also in terms of the industry that would
be in demand. I think in the near short term a very interesting
direction for Russia will be related to the environment. I believe
that in the next 5-10 years, the issue of the environment, of saving
it, will be a highly-paid, well-funded direction.
Nuclear energy is also developing actively. It is an area that requires
work with new materials, and in the field of elementary particles,
and research in the structure of matter. Information technology are
needed there as well. Also a very interesting area is associated
with medicine. These are areas that are on the border between the
nuclear industry, nuclear science and medicine. There is much to do,
and I think that many young people are well aware of it."
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Subject: Andrei Fursenko: "The North Caucasus should develop comprehensively"
Vestnik Kavkaza, Russia
Feb 12 2014
Andrei Fursenko: "The North Caucasus should develop comprehensively"
12 February 2014 - 10:57am
Interviewed by Daria Melikhova, exclusively for Vestnik Kavkaza
Former Russian Education Minister Andrei Fursenko now heads the board
of trustees of the Russian Science Foundation and works for the board
of the Russian Council on Foreign Affairs. Mr Fursenko told Vestnik
Kavkaza about science and education in the North Caucasus, as well as
about humanitarian cooperation with the South Caucasus.
- How do you assess the state of education and science in the North Caucasus?
- The North Caucasus Federal District is a region where the
development of the humanities is particularly important, because the
Caucasus has always been a place where national culture and the
interaction of different peoples play a very important role. And this
is precisely the responsibility of the social sciences: how to form
interactions to the benefit of each and every person and to the
country as a whole.
In the areas of natural sciences in the Caucasus there are several
interesting directions and very interesting institutions, in
particular, in Kabardino- Balkaria, North Ossetia and Stavropol
Territory. The newly-created North Caucasus Federal University has
been established precisely in order to coordinate and consolidate the
scientific forces in the Caucasus. One should see concrete work, go
there, meet different scientists.
This region is very important for the country. And this means it must
develop comprehensively. And education and science are an inalienable
and very important part of the development of each people, each
region.
- How are scientific contacts with the countries of the South Caucasus
developing?
- Once we worked together on education, but also in science.
Thus, not accidentally, Azerbaijan opened a branch of Moscow State
University, because it was aimed not only at teaching the youth, but
also at ensuring that there was fully-fledged joint research with our
colleagues from Azerbaijani scientific institutes and universities.
There were outstanding mathematicians in Georgia. Nikolay
Muskelishvili was one of the pillars of Soviet mathematics. And my
colleagues, with whom I did pure modelling, they worked in
universities, in the Georgian Academy of Science. So Georgian science
had potential, and I'm one hundred percent sure that it is preserved,
therefore I hope very much that science will be the direction from
which, perhaps, we will start restoring relations with this country.
Successful cooperation with Armenia has developed in the field of
information technology. It is a very concrete thing, so it is
important to conduct scientific cooperation with any country on
specific projects. We need to do this not because we have been ordered
to do so, but in order to bring benefit, not only to the scientists
from collaborating countries, but also to the economies of these
countries. It seems that today such opportunities exist, and something
is already developing.
***
Speaking of the state of the Russian science and education, Mr
Fursenko noted that since about 2006, we can see a steady increase in
the number of scientists under the age of 40. "Today the possibility
of paying good scientists, good young scientists and giving them the
opportunity of interesting work (I mean the special devices and the
infrastructure for research) are very much advanced. We have never had
such a level of quality and quantity of scientific equipment as we
have now. We have dozens of leading centers, and the quality of the
scientific infrastructure there is in no way inferior to foreign
centers".
"We have lost the generation of people who are now 45-55 years old.
These people were in a very difficult situation. In the 1990s they
worked in science, and some of them left it. You know that in all
Russian banks, in all the commercial enterprises the top management
mostly consists of people from science, people who were quite
successful in science," says Mr Fursenko. " Some people left for other
countries, because they wanted to continue to work in science,
believing that in the 1990s the conditions for this were very limited.
Today, some of these people come back for good, some return for a
while, but they cooperate with their former employers and other
institutions very actively."
According to Mr Fursenko, today full-time jobs in Russian scientific
institutions are in such demand that there is a queue for them. "There
are no vacancies. Both academic institutions and the Graduate School
said that it is necessary to create conditions for the young to stay.
Therefore, we are creating new tools now. One of the aspects is
supporting communities that to a large extent consist of young
people."
Speaking of the promising directions of science, Mr Fursenko said, "It
is very important to be competitive not only in terms of academic or
university science, but also in terms of the industry that would be in
demand. I think in the near short term a very interesting direction
for Russia will be related to the environment. I believe that in the
next 5-10 years, the issue of the environment, of saving it, will be a
highly-paid, well-funded direction.
Nuclear energy is also developing actively. It is an area that
requires work with new materials, and in the field of elementary
particles, and research in the structure of matter. Information
technology are needed there as well. Also a very interesting area is
associated with medicine. These are areas that are on the border
between the nuclear industry, nuclear science and medicine. There is
much to do, and I think that many young people are well aware of it."
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