The IV Russian Congress "ROSKATALYSIS" is taking place in Kazan from September 20 to 25. This is a broad discussion platform, a place of contact between representatives of specialized higher educational institutions, academic science and industry. The staff of the Research Institute "Nanotechnologies and New Materials" takes part in the congress on behalf of the YURSPU (NPI).

To get acquainted with the developments of the Research Institute "Nanotechnology and New Materials" on July 19, our university was visited by representatives of JSC TVEL (Department for Scientific and Technical Activities of Non-nuclear Industries) and the A.V. Topchiev Institute of Petrochemical Synthesis.

The consortium was established in Russia in November 2020 on the initiative of universities together with the Russian Academy of Sciences with the support of executive authorities and industrial companies. Its founders and first participants were the Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Catalysis of the SB RAS, the Institute of Petrochemical Synthesis of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Tomsk Polytechnic University, Sakhalin State University, Samara State Technical University. To date, the consortium includes about 40 participants, including two dozen industrial partners.

A young scientist from YURSPU (NPI) Anna Ulyankina took part in the summer School RI - "Principal investigator", organized and held at the ITMO National Research University from June 21 to 26.

On the basis of the YURGPU (NPI), on October 5, the semi-final selection of the "SMART GUY" competition was held in the Zoom system via videoconference.