RAS made a preliminary list of flagship schools where gifted and interested in science students will be prepared for admission to specific universities.
RAS specialists focused on high rating schools whose graduates are successful at the Olympiads and regularly become students of the leading Russian universities. They also selected schools located next to the research institute or a reputed university.
To date, 110 schools have been selected in 32 regions of Russia. Most of the flagship schools (six) will be created in Moscow Oblast. Bashkortostan, Tatarstan as well as Chelyabinsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk and Samara Oblast will each have five. NSTU NETI Engineering Lyceum is among the Novosibirsk five.
Russian Academy of Sciences has decided to actively participate in the training for science and research and started the talent search at school. Globally, the idea is not so new, since 60 years ago academician M. A. Lavrentyev created Siberian Scientific Center based on a system of continuous training of gifted children: High School of Physics and Mathematics — University — research institutes of the SB RAS. The legendary rector of NETI, G. P. Lyshchinskiy around the same time initiated a similar structure in the collaboration between NETI and the sponsored school № 127, now University Gimnasium. This experience was continued by establishing NETI NSTU Engineering Lyceum in the 90s on the basis of the Preparatory Department.