Two projects of our scientists were supported by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation.

Last summer, the Ministry of Education and Science organized a competitive selection for grants in the form of subsidies in order to implement the federal target program "Research and Development in priority areas of development of the scientific and technological complex of Russia for 2014-2020". This Federal Target Program is a complex of research, development, production, socio-economic, organizational and other measures linked by resources and terms of implementation, ensuring the solution of target tasks in the field of state, economic and social development of the Russian Federation.

The state customer and coordinator of the Program is the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation. The purpose of the Program is to form a competitive and effectively functioning sector of applied scientific research and development.

The subject of the competition for event 1.2, turn 1 was the selection of innovative projects aimed at conducting applied scientific research and obtaining the results necessary for the implementation of the priorities of scientific and technological development of the Russian Federation, defined by the Strategy of Scientific and Technological Development of the Russian Federation.

It was in this competition that a team of our scientists led by Professor N.V. Smirnova managed to become one of the winners and receive a grant in the amount of 30 million rubles with the project "Mobile power plants on hydrogen fuel cells of the kilowatt power class: development of new materials, technologies, technological equipment".

According to the event 1.3 "Conducting applied scientific research and development aimed at creating products and technologies", the winner was a project on which young scientists are working, headed by G.K. Aleksanyan (scientific supervisor – N.I. Gorbatenko). A grant in the amount of 59.4 million rubles is allocated for their project "Development of a complex for monitoring and artificial lung ventilation based on electroimpedance tomography".