The winner of the national award "Rector of the year 2020" was chosen at the Professorial forum among the representatives of regional universities. The award ceremony was held on November 19th at the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, with Minister Falkov presenting awards to the winners. Anatoly Bataev, the Rector of Novosibirsk State Technical University (NETI), won the nomination "Technical University Rector".
The expert panel evaluated the rector's contribution to the development of the University, his reputation, personal achievements, assessment of interaction with the state, business, scientific and expert community. Other criteria included international cooperation, digitalization and innovation at the University, as well as media activism. The other winners of the national award "Rector of the year 2020" are:
· Central Federal District — Sergey Emelyanov, Rector of Southwest State University.
· Southern Federal District — Mikhail Astapov, Rector of Kuban State University.
· Northwestern Federal District — Elena Kudryashova, Rector of Lomonosov Northern (Arctic) Federal University.
· Siberian Federal District — Eduard Galazhinskiy, Rector of Tomsk State University
· Volga Federal District — Ilshat Gafurov, Rector of Kazan Federal University.
· Far Eastern Federal District — Nikita Anisimov, Rector of Far Eastern Federal University.
· North Caucasian Federal District — Alan Ogoyev, Rector of North Ossetian State University.
· Ural Federal District — Victor Koksharov, rector of Ural Federal University
Anatoly Bataev, rector of Novosibirsk State Technical University NETI has won in the nomination of "Technical University Rector". Vladimir Bublik, Rector of Ural State Law University has won in the nomination of "Law University Rector". Aleksandr Trubilin, Rector of Kuban State Agrarian University has won in the nomination of "Agricultural University Rector". Igor Esaulenko, Rector of Voronezh State Medical University has won in the nomination of "Medical University Rector". Mikhail Gruzdev, Rector of Yaroslavl State Pedagogical University has won in the nomination "Pedagogical University Rector". Sergei Zengin, Rector of Krasnodar State Institute of Culture has won the nomination of "Universityof Culture Rector".
"Dean of the year — 2020" national award winners are:
· Alexander Auzan, Dean of the Faculty of Economics, Lomonosov Moscow State University.
· Alexander Boukhanovsky, Director of School of Translational Information Technologies, ITMO.
· Alexander Golichenkov, Dean of the Law Faculty, Lomonosov Moscow State University.
· Andrey Melvil, Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, HSE.
· Irina Novikova, Dean of the International Relations Faculty, St. Petersburg State University.
· Leon Petrosyan, Dean of the Faculty of Applied Mathematics of Control Processes, St. Petersburg State University.
· Anatoly Popovich, Director of the Institute of Metallurgy, Mechanical Engineering and Transport, Peter the Great Saint Petersburg Polytechnic University.
· Alla Shaboltas, Dean of the Faculty of Psychology, St. Petersburg State University.
· Andrey Shutov, Dean of the Faculty of Political Science, Lomonosov Moscow State University.
Vladislav Grib, Chairman of the Russian Professorial Assembly (organizer of the "Professorial forum—2020"), said: "Rector of the year is the first award in the history of Russia, when the professorial community, the scientific elite of Russia, gives an independent public assessment to rectors. We comprehensively evaluated the rectors’ contribution by a number of criteria. It was the personality of a university leader that was assessed, not the university. I am sure that the assessment of the academic community is as important as the state institutions assessment. Novosibirsk State Technical University, headed by Anatoly Bataev, is one of the most important technical universities in Russia. Without the contribution of Siberian and HSE scientists, many domestic scientific technical achievements and world-class developments would never occur. The rector and his team make a significant contribution to this process".
The jury was chaired by Sergei Stepashin, Chairman of the Professorship Support Association, and included Yaroslav Kuzminov, Rector of HSE University, Vladimir Trukhachev, Rector of the Russian State Agrarian University (Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural Academy), Vladimir Filippov, President of the RUDN, Irina Donnik, Vice-President of the RAS, Andrei Rudskoy, Rector of Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University, Yuri Zinchenko, President of RAO, Igor Remorenko, Rector of MCU, and others.
The awards "Rector of the year", "Professor of the year", and "Dean of the year" were presented during the Professional forum, which ends in Moscow on November 19. The purpose of the forum is to determine the role of Russia's scientific and educational elite in the effective implementation of national projects, including the interaction and partnership of legislative and executive authorities with the scientific and academic community.