All the best – is at school

The Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Russian Geographical Society, The President of Russia, Vladimir Putin is handing in the grant of the Russian Geographical Society to the participant of the Summer School Tatyana Oberukhtina
The Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Russian Geographical Society, The President of Russia, Vladimir Putin is handing in the grant of the Russian Geographical Society to the participant of the Summer School Tatyana Oberukhtina

The competitive recruitment to the fourth theoretical and practical Summer School of the Russian Geographical Society goes on. The applications of all who want to take part in the Summer School of the Russian Geographical Society are being accepted till the 1st of July of 2016. The senior students (bachelors and masters), graduate students and young specialists (till 35 years old) from the regions of Russia and from the neighboring countries are invited to participate in the project. The Summer School itself will take place from the 13th to the 21st of August, 2016 in Kaluga region, ethnographic park-museum « Ethnomir».

Youth scientific and practical summer schools have been being held by the Russian Geographical Society from the year of 2013 annually. For these three years more than hundred people from 7 countries have become the participants of the project. The leading specialists from Russia, the USA, Denmark, France, Austria, Israel and Netherlands have entered the number of the teachers of the School, and there are the scientists, travelers, photographers, TV-presenters, celebrities, whose activity is connected with geography and related areas amongst them.

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Discussions are staying the main format of the Summer School of the Russian Geographical Society. Photo by: Ilya Melnikov
Discussions are staying the main format of the Summer School of the Russian Geographical Society. Photo by: Ilya Melnikov

Participation in the Summer School became for many young scientists the impetus for professional and personal growth. Thus, the winner of the projects` contest of the First Summer School Ilya Smirnov from Tver received a grant of the Russian geographical Society, which was handed in to him by the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Society, the President of Russia Vladimir Putin. Not less successful work was the work of Tatyana Oberukhtina. Master of geographic and biological faculty of the Ural State Pedagogical University, the participant of the Summer School of 2014, got from the hands of Vladimir Putin the grant of the Russian Geographical Society for her project – the Olympiad-quest named «On roads of de Gennin» at the meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Society.

One more participant of the Second Summer School, a member of the Crimean branch of the Russian Geographical Society, candidate of geographical sciences Roman Gorbunov became the director of «Karadagskaya scientific station» reserve in 2016.

The main feature of the Fourth Summer School will become the practice-oriented and interactive lessons` sector expansion. The challengers for participation in Summer School must provide not only application for participation in the project, but recommendations both from the regional branch of the Russian Geographical Society and from their research institution, and photos, description of the scientific project and motivation letter as well.

 

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The Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Russian Geographical Society, the President of Russia Vladimir Putin is handing in the grant of the Russian Geographical Society to the participant of the Summer School Ilya Smirnov
The Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Russian Geographical Society, the President of Russia Vladimir Putin is handing in the grant of the Russian Geographical Society to the participant of the Summer School Ilya Smirnov

The Scientific Organizing Committee is being headed by the First Vice-President of the Russian Geographical Society, the President of the Faculty of Geography of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, academician Nikolay Kasimov. The program consists of the theoretical and practical parts. The list of main directions is specified in the project conception.

The participants of the Summer School will have an opportunity not only to listen to an educational program and expand the range of professional and business relationships, but to come up with their own project or idea, to obtain expert opinion from experienced researchers, to take part in joint projects as well.