Translation. Region: Russian Federal
Source: Official website of the State –
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On July 24, 2025, participants of the Summer Engineering and Economics School 2025 visited the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.
Young scientists met with the First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Science and Higher Education Alexander Mazhuga, who spoke about the work of the Committee, the stages and features of the legislative process in the field of science and higher education, and shared the results of the work during the spring session of 2025. The Committee ensured the adoption of 13 federal laws concerning benefits for admission, changes in the education system, scientific and innovation policy.
The meeting was held in the format of an open dialogue – participants asked questions about the defense of candidate dissertations in graduate school, the logistical support of historical buildings of regional universities, and discussed the program for improving housing conditions for young scientists.
The school participants had an extensive tour of the State Duma. The guests learned about the history of Russian statehood by visiting the exposition of the State Duma museum complex, saw personal belongings of famous politicians, and learned about the daily work of factions and committees.
As part of the lecture program, Acting Rector of the V.G. Shukhov BSTU Sergey Glagolev gave the school participants a lecture "How to Build a Car", in which he told the audience about the history, approaches and principles of creating cars, as well as how the introduction of digital technologies affects the development of the automotive industry in our country and in the world.
The transport theme was continued by Elena Duganova, Associate Professor of the Department of Operation and Organization of Motor Transport at the V.G. Shukhov Belarusian State Technical University. The speaker presented a lecture entitled "Transport Technologies of the Future", where the audience learned about how cities and ground transport infrastructure will change with the development of unmanned aircraft systems.
The day ended with a lecture by Denis Serdechny, Head of the Laboratory of Convergent Expertise and Assessment of Technology Maturity at the Research Institute of Public Policy and Sectoral Economics of the State University of Management. Together with the speaker, the audience discussed the challenges and opportunities of artificial intelligence in science and education. Participants considered the risks of active development of AI systems, in particular neural networks, and also tried to identify their vulnerabilities.
On the final day of the school, the participants went on an excursion to the Moscow Transport Museum at VDNKh. The young scientists visited the exhibition "You look 100%!", where they learned how transport design in Russia has been formed and changed over the past hundred years. The exhibition told about design solutions in the history of domestic automobile, rail and water transport, the events that influenced it, and the people who designed all this equipment. The excursion participants saw rare domestically produced cars, including the ZiS-Sport, Moskvich-Tourist, GAZ-3105 and VNIITE Maxi, the image of the car of the future "Molniya" and the electric car-gadget "Atom", as well as rare archival photo and video materials of equipment tests, scale models and mock-ups.
At the closing of the "Summer Engineering and Economics School – 2025", the participants shared their impressions of the school program, especially noting the high level of both excursions and lectures. The guests of the State University of Management wished success in the further development and expansion of the project and unanimously admitted that they would be glad to return to the School next season.
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