85755289 The winners of the competition second stage megagrantov
The winners of the second wave of so-called competition megagrantov were 39 researchers from different disciplines. It is stated in a press release on the website of the Ministry of Education and Science. There you can see a full list of winners. A total of 507 were submitted bids and the final 115 were selected from them. The names of the winners were chosen by members of the Board grants the Russian government in a secret ballot. Two of the winning scientists – is Nobel Prize winners. Russian citizens are 19 researchers who won megagranty, with 13 of them dual citizenship. Permanently reside in Russia, one winner. Ten scientists have U.S. citizenship, the six – French citizens and four are citizens of Germany. Amount of funding that is allocated to the winning scientists, up to 150 million rubles. The first tranche will be allocated to winners by the end of 2011 – its total size will be one billion rubles. In total, funding for the program megagrantov for three years. Megagarntov program, or program to attract top scientists in Russia, as it is called officially, was launched in summer 2010. Winners are selected by a board composed of scientists from different disciplines. The finalists have to create a laboratory in Russia, dedicated to the study of directing. Under the program, a scholar of the winner must spend in the territory of the Russian Federation not less than four months of the year. The purpose of the program – creating the country's few strong laboratories. It was originally planned that the competition will be held simultaneously megagrantov, but later decided to minobre divide it into two waves. The winners of the first phase were presented at the end of 2010.
