MAER Media Holding will show the winners of the Challenge Awards on its screens across the country

The awarding of the scientific "Oscar" - the National Award in the field of future technologies "Challenge" took place in the Central Exhibition Hall "Manezh". The MAER media holding supported the Challenge as a communication partner, and the prize announcements were seen by over 10 million people. The names of the laureates will be recognized by the whole country: information about them will be placed on street screens from Vladivostok to St. Petersburg.

The ceremony of awarding the scientific "Oscar" was held for the second time. Deputy Prime Minister, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the "Challenge" Foundation Dmitry Chernyshenko read the address of Russian President Vladimir Putin and noted the importance of the award: "I want to thank the President for the fact that in 2022 the Decade of Science and Technology was established. Undoubtedly, the international prize "Challenge" is a pearl in the series of important events that popularize our science and technology".

The prize in the Breakthrough nomination was awarded to Leonid Fershtat for advanced research in the field of creation of multi-purpose organic functional materials based on high-nitrogen molecular architectures. The winner in the Engineering Solution nomination was Sergey Taskaev, awarded for the development of a compact neutron gas pedal source suitable for a wide range of research. The prize in the Breakthrough nomination was awarded to Evgeny Antipov for creating the fundamental and practical basis for the development and production of electrode materials for new-generation metal-ion batteries. Artem Abakumov became a co-winner in the nomination. The Challenge Prize in the international nomination Discovery was awarded to Nikos Logothetis, a scientist from China, for his fundamental contribution to the creation of the method of functional magnetic resonance imaging and its introduction into everyday scientific and clinical practice for the study of human brain activity. Finally, in the nomination "Scientist of the Year" Valery Tuchin won. He was awarded for his outstanding contribution to the field of life sciences, as well as to a new interdisciplinary field of knowledge and technology - biophotonics.

"All laureates of the Challenge Award are united by their love for science. I myself as a child dreamed of becoming a scientist and receiving the Nobel Prize. I am glad that our country has such an award as "Challenge", to become a laureate of this award is a worthy dream", - said Ruslan Yunusov, co-founder of the Russian Quantum Center, Advisor to the Director General of the State Corporation "Rosatom", Chairman of the Board of the Foundation "Challenge".

The ceremony was held in the form of an original immersive performance: director Konstantin Bogomolov combined science and art in it. The host was Igor Vernik, and Konstantin Khabensky, Alexandra Ursulyak, Pavel Tabakov, Sofia Ernst, Leonid Agutin, Anton Belyaev took part in the ceremony. On December 22, the TV version of the ceremony was shown on the air of "Channel One", as well as it became available for viewing in the official community of the Foundation "Challenge" in VK.

"Media holding MAER is close to the mission of the prize "Challenge": to enthuse young people with science. And today our country especially needs new technologies, new talents. Russian scientists are the elite that will determine the future in 5, 10, 20 years. They are the key to our sovereignty. And the whole of Russia should know them by sight. That is why in January we will show each of the laureates on our media screens across the country. And more than 10 million Russians will learn about them," summarized Konstantin Major, owner and CEO of MAEP Media Holding.