On August 6, the final of the SynBio Challenge international competition was held in Shenzhen Guangdong Province, China. The NSU Natural Sciences Department (NSD)Team, GeneMeow, won the gold medal in the "Synthetic Cell" category. 

This is the best result in the last 10 years of the University's participation in the IMC.

The Moscow International School on Quantum Technologies (ISQT) brought together 30 of the best students from all over Russia. Among the participants were Ksenia Kozenko and Katerina Kozlova, first-year Master's students at the NSU Physics Department. 

This year the II International Russia-Africa Cooperation Forum "Education, Business, Culture - 2025" will be held in conjunction with the XII International Forum "Technoprom-2025" in August. The event is organized by the Center for Public Diplomacy, Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk State Technical University, and the Consortium of Russian Universities for the Development of Cooperation with African Countries.

The results of the Russian Science Foundation mega-grant competition for fundamental scientific research and exploratory scientific research under the supervision of leading foreign scientists have been announced. Among the winners is a project submitted by scientists from the NSU Laboratory of Nonlinear Optics of Waveguide Systems, "The Kerr Self-Cleaning Effect of Multimode Beams in Specialized Fiber Light Guides and Its Application for Biomedicine".

This was NSU’s first experience conducting such a long event with the participation of young researchers from different countries.