On November 28-29, the International Scientific Conference ‘300 years of discoveries: the unity of science, culture and languages in the international scientific dialogue’, dedicated to the 300th anniversary of the Russian Academy of Sciences, was held at Kuban State University in a face-to-face and distance format.
The conference was organised by Kuban State University (Krasnodar, Russia) and the Representative Office of Rossotrudnichestvo in Greece (Athens, Greece).
Inna Miroshnichenko, vice-rector for Strategic Development of KubSU, made a welcoming speech. The participants were also welcomed by Mikhail Seryogin, Head of the International Cooperation Department of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Olga Vasilyeva, President of the Russian Academy of Education (RAE), Vyacheslav Sidleronok, Acting Head of the Representative Office of Rossotrudnichestvo in Greece, Hulya Arslan, Head of the Department of Russian Language and Literature of Yeditepe University (Istanbul, Turkey), Ivan Leonov, Professor of the Pushkin State Institute of Russian Language, Elena Andreychenko, Head of the Russian Language Department of the Athens State University of Economics, Pandion Athens State University of Social and Political Sciences. The moderators of the conference were Natalia Yeremenko, the responsible officer of the Russian Centre of Science and Culture in Athens for the enrolment within the quota of the Government of the Russian Federation, head of Russian as a foreign language courses at the Russian centre of Science and Culture, Evgenia Rotay, Deputy Director of the Department of International Relations, and Anna Nemyka, Professor of the Department of Russian as a Foreign Language at KubSU.
The conference was attended by more than 150 leading scientists, lecturers, postgraduate and graduate students from 15 countries, including Russia, Belarus, Belgium, Greece, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, China, Cuba, Serbia, Taiwan (China), Turkmenistan, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Zambia.
The international conference covered a wide range of modern scientific directions, including fundamental and applied research in the field of exact sciences, theoretical and applied linguistics, information and digital technologies, environmental safety, artificial intelligence and machine learning, interdisciplinary research, pedagogy, humanities, cultural studies, social anthropology and methodology of teaching Russian as a foreign language.
The participants, representing universities and research institutions, demonstrated the results of comprehensive interdisciplinary research that reflect the key trends in the development of modern science. In their reports, they highlighted the current challenges facing the world scientific community, as well as outlined the prospects for integrating scientific knowledge and technologies to address global challenges. Special attention was paid to the issues of innovation, international cooperation and the impact of science on the sustainable development of society.
