Skolkovo will extend the contract with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and pay about $ 50 million for its services
In September , the Skolkovo Foundation and the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology ( Skoltech ) plan to extend the contract with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ) for three years.
The contract was concluded in October 2011 for a period up to 2014. According to the agreement, MIT was to receive $ 302.5 million over three years. $ 152 million was transferred as a grant “for own development” of the American university, and $ 150.5 million was a payment for assistance in creating Skoltech. MIT, in turn, was to participate in the development of the concept of the institute, the selection of teachers and lecture material, as well as supervise all stages of activity, including training of employees.
The head of the Skolkovo Foundation, Viktor Vekselberg, said that in the new contract the amounts would be "several times less."Over the next three years, MIT will receive $ 46.7 million: $ 16.7 million will be directed to the MIT endowment fund, $ 10 million will be paid annually to the MIT administration for supporting partnership programs between the American university and Skoltech.
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“It's early to talk about numbers. Now we are talking about signing a framework contract: working groups will be created in different areas - education, students, innovations. The scope of work in these areas will be determined, and only after that specific amounts will be determined, ”RBC Vekselberg told .
This year, 19.22 billion rubles will be allocated from the federal budget to fund the Skolkovo Foundation. To finance Skoltech, about 3 billion rubles are needed annually. According to Vekselberg, the bulk of the amount to pay for MIT services will be transferred from the Skoltech budget.
“The extension of the contract with MIT is a good thing, provided that the contract is clearly structured,” commented the first vice-rector of the Skolkovo Institute Raj Rajagopalan.
However, Professor Konstantin Severinov, director of the Skoltech Center for System Biomedicine and Biotechnology, is sure: “The Skoltech budget for 2016 has not been approved, however, based on this year’s budget, it is clear that Skoltech will fulfill additional partnership obligations without detriment to its own development complicated".
One of the most ardent opponents of the contract, the Russian scientist Zhores Alferov, believes that Russian science does not need support from abroad at all.
The contract was concluded in October 2011 for a period up to 2014. According to the agreement, MIT was to receive $ 302.5 million over three years. $ 152 million was transferred as a grant “for own development” of the American university, and $ 150.5 million was a payment for assistance in creating Skoltech. MIT, in turn, was to participate in the development of the concept of the institute, the selection of teachers and lecture material, as well as supervise all stages of activity, including training of employees.
The head of the Skolkovo Foundation, Viktor Vekselberg, said that in the new contract the amounts would be "several times less."
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“It's early to talk about numbers. Now we are talking about signing a framework contract: working groups will be created in different areas - education, students, innovations. The scope of work in these areas will be determined, and only after that specific amounts will be determined, ”RBC Vekselberg told .
This year, 19.22 billion rubles will be allocated from the federal budget to fund the Skolkovo Foundation. To finance Skoltech, about 3 billion rubles are needed annually. According to Vekselberg, the bulk of the amount to pay for MIT services will be transferred from the Skoltech budget.
“The extension of the contract with MIT is a good thing, provided that the contract is clearly structured,” commented the first vice-rector of the Skolkovo Institute Raj Rajagopalan.
However, Professor Konstantin Severinov, director of the Skoltech Center for System Biomedicine and Biotechnology, is sure: “The Skoltech budget for 2016 has not been approved, however, based on this year’s budget, it is clear that Skoltech will fulfill additional partnership obligations without detriment to its own development complicated".
One of the most ardent opponents of the contract, the Russian scientist Zhores Alferov, believes that Russian science does not need support from abroad at all.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/292334/
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