Events digest: weekly highlights from the National Centre RUSSIA

The final of the sporting tournament "What? Where? When?", a lecture "Palaces of Russia", the Day of the Inventor and Innovator, and other events of this week -- are in our announcement.

June 24. The final of the sporting tournament "What? Where? When?" Knowledge. Game: Schools and Colleges

The event will bring together 75 erudite teams from 38 regions of Russia. There will be 15 teams that showed the best results during the qualifying games, 20 teams-leaders of partner tournaments organized under the license of the copyright holder LLC "TV company "Igra-TV", as well as 40 teams that were selected based on the results of the online cup "Knowledge. Game".

The results of the tournament's final game will determine 10 teams which will be awarded: one absolute winner of the competition, and 9 prize-winners. All of them will receive valuable gifts from the event's partners. In the new season, Rosatom State Corporation is the general partner of the tournament.

Sergey Kravtsov, Minister of Education of the Russian Federation, Maxim Dreval, Director General of the Russian Society Znanie, Olesya Teterina, Director General of the NGO More than a Journey, and others are invited to participate.

June 25. An educational lecture "Palaces of Russia" with Elizaveta Likhacheva

The cycle of educational lectures on architecture at the National Centre RUSSIA goes on. Now it will have a new name — "Symbols of Time", it will become more extensive, and will include talks about fine art, sculpture, photography, and fashion, and the role of the curator in the modern culture.

The lecture "Palaces of Russia" will discuss the formation and development of the Russian palace architecture — from the royal chambers to the State Kremlin Palace. The audience will get acquainted with the architects who created the ceremonial appearance of royal residences, palaces, and palace-and-park ensembles, and also will learn about the mutual influence of our and other countries on each other, as well as about innovative solutions that were born at that time.

Experts will talk about the unique engineering solutions of Peterhof, the mystical Engineering Castle and the Winter Palace, where the country's history was made. Besides, they will discuss the Soviet period, when the Palace of Soviets project was created.

The event will traditionally be conducted by an art critic and architectural historian Elizaveta Likhacheva, and her companion at the lecture will be an art critic, senior researcher at the State Museum of Architecture named after Shchusev Kirill Posternak.

June 26. Meeting of the Final Board of the Federal Agency for the Youth Affairs (Rosmolodezh)

Representatives of state authorities and public organizations involved in the implementation of the youth policy will summarize the results of the Rosmolodezh's activities in 2024, and announce plans for 2025.

After the meeting, a press conference will be held for mass media with the participation of the regional heads. At the press conference, the participants will talk about the upcoming Youth Day Festival, which will be held across the country on June 28 as part of the "Know, Be proud, Love, make more" concept. Also, they will summarize the results of the "Region of Good Deeds" and "Region for the Young" contests. Both programs are included into the new national project "Youth and Children", launched on behalf of the Russian President Vladimir Putin.

An open discussion "Video games as a tool for teaching values and protecting historical memory"

The event, organized by the Expert Institute for Social Research (EISI), will bring together leading representatives of the video games industry, analysts and public figures to discuss the role of video games in shaping historical consciousness and in promoting traditional values.

The discussion will be attended by Polina Kazantseva, Deputy Director of the EISI Internet Research Department; Alexander Tolkach, producer and one of the authors of the "Squad 22: ZOV" game; Vitaly Shutov, Creative Director of the "Playing Cats" Studio; Oksana Gural, Vice-President of the Russian Computer Sports Federation; Anna Kozlova, Executive Director of the "IGROPROM" Exposition and Festival; Vladimir Taranenko, Deputy Head of the Executive Committee at the All-Russian People's Front "For Russia"; Yaroslav Meshalkin, Managing Partner of "Heads'made"; and Konstantin Kuranov, head of special projects at the Russian Military Historical Society. The event will be moderated by Nikita Setov, Deputy General Director at GR of the "Polylog" Consulting Group.

The 115th birthday of Alexander Tvardovsky at the Literature Club "What would you (like to) read?!"

An event dedicated to the 115th year of birth of Russian writer Alexander Tvardovsky will be held at the author's Literature Club "What would you (like to) read?!". Together with the invited speakers, the guests will explore Alexander Tvardovsky's works, which show deep patriotism and love for his homeland. They will also discuss the importance of Tvardovsky's poems for the Russian literature, and their role in shaping a national identity.

The meeting will be attended by Evgenia Kravchenkova, Associate Professor of Department of the World Literature at the Pushkin State Institute of the Russian Language, Candidate of Philology, and Yaroslav Skvortsov, Head of the Department of International Journalism at MGIMO, PhD in Sociology, Editor-in-Chief of the "International Communications" journal, Acting Dean of the School of International Journalism at MGIMO, member of the Union of Journalists of Russia.

June 27. Meeting within the project "Dialogues about the future": "From nanorobots to immortality: What will the medicine of the future look like?" with Valery Fedorov 

In preparation for the 2nd International Symposium "Inventing the Future," National Centre RUSSIA launched a cycle of discussions where science meets futurology, and bold predictions meet real technological advances. The second meeting focuses on revolutionary transformations in medicine. The participants will discuss innovative treatment methods, the role of nanotechnology and artificial intelligence in healthcare, and ethical issues related to the introduction of new technologies.

The meeting will be hosted by Valery Fedorov, Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Mass Communications at the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, Director General of the VTsIOM Analytical Center. His companions will be Danila Medvedev, Candidate of Economics, futurologist, CEO of the "NeuroCode" Group of Companies, and Dmitry Telyshev, Professor, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Director of the Institute of Bionic Technologies and Engineering, research leader of the advanced engineering school "Intelligent Systems of Theranostics" at Sechenov University.

The final of the All-Russian contest of final qualifying papers in the "Startup as a diploma" format

The results of the "Startup as a Diploma" program as a potential for development of the youth entrepreneurship in the regions of Russia will be presented at the National Centre RUSSIA. The contestants are schoolchildren and students aged 17 to 35, young entrepreneurs, representatives of entrepreneurial communities and business clubs (students, mentors, experts).

The program of the final includes: pitching the finalists in front of experts, investors and the business community; a presentation of the "Startup as Diploma 2.0" program: a strategy for developing youth entrepreneurship at universities; the awarding ceremony for the winners of the contest's "Technological Challenges" track and partners' nominations; awarding universities developing the "Startup as Diploma" program; work of thematic platforms; networking with representatives of universities, entrepreneurs, investors and partners; presenting gifts, and much more.

Olga Petrova, Deputy Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation; Alexander Vedekhin, Deputy Director of the Department of State Youth Policy and Educational Activities at the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation; Ksenia Goryacheva, Deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, the First Deputy of the Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Science and Higher Education; Maria Bogomolova, Deputy Head of the Department of Entrepreneurship and Innovative Development of Moscow, and others, are invited to participate.

June 28. Day of the Inventor and Innovator, and the opening of the 3rd All-Russian Festival "Science and Inventions for Life" organized by the All-Russian Society of Inventors and Rationalizers (VOIR)

During the solemn part of the event, the 3rd All-Russian Festival by the VOIR — "Science and Inventions for Life" — will be launched. It will be held in 15 regions of the country, and will include more than 400,000 people, as well as 250 experts from leading scientific and educational organizations in Russia.

An interactive science show program with spectacular experiments will be held for guests and participants. During the day, popular science events will be held for young inventors, scientists, and all those who are interested in scientific and technical creativity.

Among the participants of the event will be Dmitry Chernyshenko, Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the VOIR; Vladimir Kononov, Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Science and Higher Education of the State Duma, Chairman of the Central Council of the VOIR; Konstantin Mogilevsky, Deputy Minister of Science and Higher Education, Deputy Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the VOIR; Alexander Bugaev, First Deputy Minister of Education of the Russian Federation, and others.