Laboratory of photonics and nonlinear fiber optics wins a megagrant of Ministry of education and science of RF
Laboratory of photonics and nonlinear fiber optics in collaboration with Alexey Mikhailovich Zheltikov has won a megagrant of Ministry of education and science of Russian Federation with their project “Lightgiude systems for quantum technologies”. There are only two Kazan laboratories among the winners, the second one being a chemistry lab of Kazan federal university.
Any russian college or academy in collaboration with the scientist leading in his field of science could compete for the grant. The fields of science were: natural sciences, technics and technology, medical sciences and sciences of of health, agricultural sciences, social sciences, humanities.
The winners were chosen on the exit session of Soviet for grants which took place during the Second International scientific conference “Science of the future” and Second All-Russian forum “The science of the future – The science of the young” (Kazan). Altogether 542 applications from leading sciences from 45 countries in collaboration with almost 300 scientific and educational institutes of Russia.
Grants of Russian government are given out in the amount not greater than 90 million rubles each for scientific research for 3 years with the ability of extension for another two years.