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On November 26, as part of the business program of the Congress of Young Scientists, an open meeting of the expert council on international educational and scientific cooperation and integration of the State Duma Committee on Science and Higher Education was held. Vladimir Stroyev, Rector of the State University of Management, addressed the audience with a report on approaches to ensuring food security in the current context.
This year's meeting focused on developing the agro-industrial complex and strengthening our country's food security. Vladimir Stroyev, Rector of the State University of Management, focused on the specifics and challenges of training personnel for Russia's agro-industrial complex (AIC) and the principles by which the university addresses this issue. He also presented the results of the major research project "Ensuring the country's food security through the creation of hardware and software systems and intelligent platform-based digital solutions for the development of full-lifecycle agro-industrial technologies," which is being implemented by the university.
"Without digitalization in the agricultural sector, we're operating in the dark. Average fertilizer doses, guesswork in watering, and losses during storage and logistics all increase production costs and make it unprofitable. Precision farming allows for targeted inputs, saving money. Digital platforms can forecast prices and optimize logistics, further reducing production losses. Furthermore, digital twins of agricultural entities and AI-based forecasting systems allow us to model threats and mitigate them by taking proactive measures. In other words, digitalization is a direct path to reducing costs and increasing margins. Without it, we won't be able to compete in either the international or domestic markets," Vladimir Vitalyevich emphasized.
The interdisciplinary presentations included Maria Mazhorina, Vice-Rector for Strategic and International Development and Head of the Development Program at Kutafin Moscow State Law University (MSAL), Inna Andronova, Dean of the Faculty of Economics at Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University), and Oleg Karasev, Deputy Director General of the Directorate for Scientific and Technical Programs. The speakers covered issues of innovation law for ensuring Russia's technological leadership, developing foreign economic cooperation, and measures to support international cooperation in the agricultural sector.
Industry reports on the agricultural and food industries were presented by Elena Simonenko, Head of the Forecasting Department at the Research Institute of Baby Food, a branch of the Federal Research Center of Nutrition and Biotechnology; Andrey Ronzhin, Professor at the Russian Academy of Sciences and Director of the St. Petersburg Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPb FRC RAS); Dmitry Pavkin, Head of the Robotics and Digitalization of Animal Husbandry Research Center at the Federal Scientific Agroengineering Center VIM; Ekaterina Zhuravleva, Advisor to the Chairman of the Board of Directors of EFKO Group; Artem Oganov, Professor at Skoltech and Head of the Materials Design Laboratory; and Irina Karelina, Vice President of the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE).
The results of the open meeting were summarized by Ksenia Trinchenko, Director of the Department of International Cooperation at the Russian Ministry of Education and Science; Alexander Vedekhin, Deputy Director of the Department of State Youth Policy and Educational Activities at the Russian Ministry of Education and Science; Ilya Orsik, Deputy Head of the Department of Agricultural, Food, and Road Construction Machinery at the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade; and Pavel Shevtsov, Deputy Head of Rossotrudnichestvo. The speakers emphasized the high importance of the topics raised during the meeting, noting the need for an interdisciplinary and comprehensive approach to addressing food security in Russia and training personnel for the agricultural sector.
At the conclusion of the event, Vladimir Sipyagin, First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Science and Higher Education, proposed including in the list of initiatives for the Decade of Science and Technology a proposal to create a federal project, "Science Unites the World," to strengthen international scientific cooperation and address the global challenges of the 21st century. The key areas of the initiative are the creation of international laboratories for young scientists, the organization of educational programs, the implementation of technology projects, the exchange of scientists and students, and the holding of international events.
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