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The key event of the Year of Science – the NAUKA 0+ festival will be held in Ƶ in October
29 September

An entrancing festival for schoolchildren NAUKA 0+ will be held in Saint-Petersburg State University of Industrial Technologies and Design in October 29 and 30 at three sites of the university at once. The event is one of the events of the Year of Science and Technology in Russia. Ƶ scientists will present interactive lectures with experiments on Physics, polymer Chemistry and even jewelry art to young researchers. Schoolchildren will try to draw sound, get electricity from fruits and vegetables, conduct experiments with non-Newtonian liquids, make souvenirs from getinaks and paraffins, put a logo on bag using sublimated drawings on paper and conduct a study of water purification methods, as well as see the interactive exhibition “Energy of the future”.

Today the Festival NAUKA 0+ is one of the largest popular science projects of the world which includes more than 10 000 free events for the widest audience in 80 regions of Russia, speeches of Nobel prize laureates, competitions for children and adults, the largest interactive exhibition, virtual laboratories, entertaining scientific shows, discussions about the future of humanity, demonstration of scientific films, robot competitions, scientific battles Science Slam, quizzes, quests, etc.


On October 8 the All-Russian festival NAUKA 0+ starts in Moscow.

Organizers are the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia, the Government of Moscow, Lomonosov Moscow State University with support of Russian Academy of Sciences. This year the festival will bring together scientists from all 6 continents of our planet - Eurasia, North and South America, Africa, Australia, Antarctica, the best researchers from Russia, Nobel prize laureates. Among them are the creator of “Supramolecular Chemistry”, the Nobel prize laureate in Chemistry from France Jean-Marie Lehn with a lecture “Steps towards life: Chemistry!”, an expert of the intergovernmental panel on Climate Change IPCC from South Korea, Nobel Peace prize laureate Rae Kwon Chung, American molecular biologist Sidney Altman, who received the Nobel prize in chemistry for discovering the ability of a ribonucleic acid molecule to biocatalysis, as well as a professor at the University of Tokyo, director of the Institute for the Study of Cosmic Rays Takaaki Kajita - laureate of the 2015 Nobel prize in Physics for detecting neutrino oscillations.

“Golden lecture hall” of the Festival in Fundamental library and Shuvalovsky housing of MSU also will disclose the themes of the Year of Science and Technology. Honorary President of the Kurchatov Institute Research Center, ex-Chairman of the ITER Council, academician Evgeny Velikhov will give a lecture about the energy of the future; a neurobiologist, Director of the Institute for Advanced Brain Research of Moscow State University, academician Konstantin Anokhin, will talk about artificial intelligence; the topic of ecology will be revealed by the winner of the Global Energy prize in 2021, a researcher in the field of controlled photosynthesis, academician Suleiman Allahverdiyev and a senior researcher at the laboratory of Theory and Climate of the Institute of Atmospheric Physics named after A.M. Alexander Chernokulsky, Chief Scientific Researcher at the Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor Vladimir Kovalzon will devote his speech to sleep physiology and neurochemistry, “new medicine” will be presented by cardiologist, Deputy Director of the Moscow State University, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Simon Matskeplishvili, creator of the inflationary model of the Universe, Professor of Stanford University, winner of the prestigious Dirac prize physicist Andrey Linde and Professor of the Institute of Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences Dmitry Gorbunov.

Headliner of NAUKA 0+ Festival of this year will become professor-founder of the Department of Earth and Space Research at Arizona State University, author of popular science books Lawrence Krauss, who will talk about life on earth and in space.

One of the most exciting activities of the festival is a teleconference with the International Cosmic Station (ICC) will be held for the very first time on the TikTok platform, where anyone can ask live video questions about life in orbit and scientific experiements in outer space. Cosmonauts of the Russian segment of the ISS Oleg Novitsky and Peter Dubrov will contact the Earth. It will be possible to get acquainted with space on Earth and learn how spaceships are created and how cosmonauts are trained at the enterprises of Roscosmos. And the Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics, RSC “Energy named after S.P. Korolev”, “NPO Mashinostroenia” and the Multifunctional Exposition Center of TSNIIMASH JSC will open their doors to all visitors of the festival.

It will be possible to get acquainted with unique Russian production technologies at the enterprises of the general partner of the All-Russian Science Festival of the “Shvabe” holding of the “Rostec” State Corporation - the Lytkarinsky Optical Glass Plant and the Krasnogorsk Plant named after S. A. Zverev, as well as at the special “Rostec” techno-lecture hall in the Shuvalov building of Moscow State University. Also it will be possible to get to know about “clean technologies” within the framework of ecology thematics visiting expositions and lecture halls of general partner of the Festival of science En+Group. For those who want to immerse themselves in science virtually, the updated Hypermuseum of Science will be available museum.festivalnauki.ru where it will be possible to consider scientific phenomena - from a collapsar to a coronavirus, as well as a prototype of the MC-21 aircraft, the parts of which are created from new innovative composite materials of Russian production.

Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, co-Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the Year of Science and Technology Dmitry Chernyshenko:

“For 15 years, the NAUKA 0+ Festival has grown into the largest project to popularize scientific work and raise the status of the scientist's profession. During this time, more than 25 million people have become participants of the Festival - every sixth inhabitant of Russia. In recent years, the Festival has been successfully held at foreign venues, in the most technologically advanced countries of the world, being a means of internationalization of domestic science, scientific and public diplomacy. This year the festival is one of the key events of the Year of Science and Technology announced by the President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin. The rich program of the NAUKA 0+ Festival will be an important addition to the almost 3 thousand events that have already taken place within the framework of the Year. The diverse interactive formats of the Festival are designed to become another incentive for many to get involved in science and discover their own intellectual and creative potential.”

Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation Valery Falkov:

“The All-Russian NAUKA 0+ Festival is one of the brightest projects of the Year of Science and Technology. It takes place at 80 regional and several central venues in a variety of formats. Thus, the festival reflects both the content of the Year of Science and its ideology - to be a center of attraction for everyone who is interested in science, to talk about it with various audiences, to increase the value component of research activities. NAUKA 0+ creates an interactive environment.”