Skolkovo Foundation President Viktor Vekselberg, the chair of the organising committee for the Skolkovo school concept competition, has approved regulations for the competition.
Vice-President Oleg Alekseev signed statutes concerning the competition committee and its nominative list.
The commission will include representatives from the Skolkovo Foundation, Microsoft, and the Russian Federation’s Ministry of Education and Science, as well as representatives from the educational community.
The competition commission will be headed by Efim Rachevsky, Distinguished Teacher of the Russian Federation and the principal of Moscow High School Tsaritsyno №548.
Representatives from the Skolkovo Foundation will include Vice-President Stanislav Naumov; Advisor to the Foundation Vice-President Isak Froumin, Ed.D; M.V. Kotelnikova, project manager for planning and regulating social development on the Skolkovo Foundation’s territory; and Skolkovo School Project Manager Dmitry Kovalevsky.
Representing the Russian Federation Ministry of Education and Science are Department of General Education Director Elena Nizenko and Department of General Education Advisor S.D. Yermakova.
The pedagogical community will be represented by Institute of Educational Policy Rector Alexander Adamsky, Ed.D; Russian Academy of Education Vice-President Viktor Bolotov; Viktor Vasilyev, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and head of the mathematics section of the Russian Academy of Science’s Expert Commission on Analysis and Evaluation of Academic Content for Federal National Educational Standards and Educational Material for Elementary, Middle and High Schools;Alexander Asmolov, director of the Federal Institute for Educational Development and member of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Oleg Lebedev, Ed.D, president of the Public Institute of School Development; and Mikhail Ivanov, Distinguished Teacher of the Russian Federation and director of the Lyceum “Physical-Technical High School” at the Academic University.
Coming from Microsoft will be Microsoft Russia’s Educational Elites Audience Lead Anton Shulzhenko.
The objective of this representative assembly is to select experts to review competition applications. The list of experts approved by the competition commission will be published following the first commission meeting, scheduled for 12 October 2011.
Based on the experts’ results, the competition committee will select 25 proposals whose creators will proceed to the second round of the competition. They will be asked to provide design specifications for the school in Skolkovo.
Skolkovo Foundation Vice-President Oleg Alekseev said, “On 9 September, we launched a competition to develop concepts for the Skolkovo School – an important educational and socio-cultural project. We plan to create a unique educational environment in Skolkovo, integrated with the special cultural environment of innovation. The Skolkovo school complex will cater to children from infancy to the age of 18, and at every stage, from nursery to high school, the best Russian and foreign practices in pedagogy, technology, information and communications technology, and architectural design will be used, along with new and unique innovative developments. Many say that we are building a modern school of the future, in that – and this is very important – we expect our model to serve as a prototype for Russian schools in the coming decades. To that end, in consultation with the Russian Federation’s Ministry of Education and Science, we have stipulated in the terms of the competition that, along with the school in Skolkovo, it may be possible to implement the top ten projects in other Russian regions. I expect that participants in the government program, “Management Training in Healthcare and Education in 2011-2014,” will be eligible to possibly implement projects. We have a tentative agreement about this with Vyacheslav Volodin, deputy prime minister of Russia and chair of the Commission on Training Managerial Personnel for the Russian Economy. We invited leading experts in the field of education to join the commission. Their names are familiar to the general public; they are well-known, respected people and acknowledged experts in the education field.”
Background Information
The Skolkovo School Concept Competition
On 9 September 2011, the competition for a Skolkovo school concept was launched. The first phase of it (collecting applications) will run through 10 October 2011. Russian and foreign specialists and specialist teams will present their ideas in the competition. The best concept (or group of concepts) will serve as the foundation for developing the project, which will be implemented in Skolkovo. In addition, ten competition finalists may have their concepts implemented elsewhere in the Russian Federation. Consequently, the educational complex model created at the innovation centre will serve as a prototype for a large volume of Russian schools in the coming decade.
The Skolkovo Foundation
The Skolkovo Foundation for Development of the Center of Research and Commercializing of New Technologies was created at the initiative of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in September 2010. Its goal is to mobilise Russia’s resources in modern applied research and create a favourable environment for academic pursuits in five key areas of technological development: energy and energy efficiency, space, biomedicine, nuclear technologies and IT. The project calls for establishing the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (SIST), research institutions, a business incubator, a technology transfer and commercialization centre, representative offices of foreign companies and R&D centres, residential quarters and social infrastructure, as well as for eventually spreading the effective system to other innovation regions in Russia. Special laws governing Skolkovo give its residents special economic preferences.
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