The Decade of Science and Technology will be presented at SPIEF 2026

A program dedicated to the initiatives and projects of the Decade of Science and Technology will be presented at the 29th St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, which takes place on June 3-6. SPIEF 2026 participants will be able to learn about the new books of the Library of the Decade of Science and Technology, join the discussion on creating conditions for breakthrough research, see the concepts of the new "scientific" collection of the Putin Team Russia brand and get acquainted with science-related travel accessories from the Routemark brand. In addition, the fifth season of the Science in Faces exhibition traditionally starts at the forum site.

The business program of the XXIX St. Petersburg International Economic Forum includes sessions on science and new technologies. One of them is "Contribution to the Eternal: How Capital creates Scientific Heritage" will begin on June 4 at 3 p.m. in Conference Hall H23 of Pavilion H of the Expoforum Convention and Exhibition Center. Representatives of charitable foundations such as the Melnichenko Foundation, the Sistema Charitable Foundation and the Talent and Success Educational Foundation will tell you why businesses create charitable scientific foundations, what tasks they face, what formats and models of support have proven effective, and how to combine the efforts of the state and private foundations to achieve national goals in science. The session will be moderated by Denis Sekirinsky, Deputy Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation.

The program of the Decade of Science and Technology at the stand of the Russian Ministry of Education and Science will be opened on June 3 at 3 p.m. by a panel discussion "Accessible data as a public good: institutional conditions for breakthrough research and high-tech entrepreneurship in the era of artificial intelligence." Experts — representatives of the Russian Academy of Sciences, PJSC Norilsk Nickel, PJSC Rostelecom, Moscow State University, Yandex Cloud, Colab and other organizations — will discuss the changing scientific and technological landscape of Russia and the world in the era of AI. The speakers will tell you whether corporations can finance work with scientific data and benefit from it, where the line between data as a public good and data as a commercial asset lies, and which sectors of the Russian economy will benefit most from the systematization of accumulated scientific data over a five-year horizon.

On June 4, at 14:00, a presentation of new books will take place within the framework of the Library of the Decade of Science and Technology project. The series will be supplemented with books by outstanding scientists and popularizers of science: P.L. Kapitsa, A.E. Fersman, Ya.I. Perelman and M.M. Koltun. This time, the Sistema Charitable Foundation, Alfa-Bank, SIBUR and PhosAgro PJSC became partners of the reprints of classic Russian popular science literature. A master class from the NASHA LAB service will also be organized. Forum participants will work under the guidance of a scientist on the Nanophore 06 sequencer and learn how genome sequencing is used to solve applied problems in various fields, from molecular diagnostics to breeding and pharmacogenetics.

In addition, the concepts of the new "scientific" collection of the Putin Team Russia brand, which is being developed as part of the Decade of Science and Technology, will be presented at the stand of the Russian Ministry of Education and Science. In 2026, the brand will equip the volunteers of the VI Congress of Young Scientists, which will be held on the federal territory of Sirius on November 25-27, and will also prepare a set of souvenirs for the participants. Another element of the Decade's exhibition area at the stand is samples of Routemark's collection of travel accessories dedicated to science, which includes, for example, suitcase covers. The stand of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation will also be decorated with an installation of Russian laboratory glassware from the Primlab company, which is used by scientists from the country's leading laboratories.

During SPIEF 2026, the Russian Ministry of Education and Science will host signing ceremonies for cooperation agreements in the Decade of Science and Technology with leading companies in the country.: Rostelecom PJSC, Kaspersky Lab JSC, Prosveshchenie Publishing House JSC, Shvabe JSC, MMC NORILSK NICKEL PJSC, Superjob LLC, as well as with the Department of Investment and Industrial Policy of the City of Moscow.

In particular, two agreements will be signed with the RWB group: the first is aimed at popularizing science, technology and engineering specialties among schoolchildren and young people. The second is a trilateral Agreement between the Russian Ministry of Education and Science, RWB (Wildberries & Russ) and ANO National Priorities on cooperation to promote the Decade of Science and Technology initiative "Popular Science Tourism", including on WB Travel resources in the Impressions and Travel Ideas section.

On June 5, the opening ceremony of the new season of the Science in Faces exhibition, a gallery of portraits of prominent modern Russian scientists, will take place. The heroes of the fifth season are 32 researchers from 15 regions of Russia — laureates of the President of the Russian Federation Award in the field of science and innovation for young scientists, the Government of the Russian Federation Award in the field of science and technology for young scientists, the Moscow Government Award for young Scientists, the Sber Scientific Prize, the national prize in the field of future technologies "CHALLENGE", and scientists who presented their developments to the President of the Russian Federation at the Congress of Young Scientists, winners of competitions of the Russian Science Foundation, employees of leading Russian scientific organizations and high-tech companies: SIBUR, Sber, Rosatom. The exhibition will be on display during all days of the forum between the entrances to Pavilions E and F (a street exhibit along the Passage).

On June 6, at 12:00 p.m., the discussion "The relay race of generations: how to support young people in science and involve them in solving the problems of scientific and educational policy" will take place. Participants, including Andrei Fursenko, Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation, Sofia Malyavina, Director General of the National Priorities NGO, and others, will discuss modern mechanisms for involving scientific youth in decision-making processes, the possibility of implementing their own initiatives and participating in large-scale projects at the national level. The focus is on new formats for representing the interests of young researchers, the interaction of science, government and business, as well as tools to make the voice of a new generation of scientists and inventors a significant factor in Russia's scientific and technological development. The discussion will become a platform for the exchange of best practices and the search for new approaches to unlocking the potential of young talents.