Russian project 5-100 — Novosibirsk State University

Novosibirsk State University participates in the project 5-100 directed at improving competitiveness of Russian higher education institutions on the global market

The Project 5–100 is aimed at developing Russian universities in the educational, scientific and innovative spheres. According to the aims of the project at least 5 Russian universities are to enter top100 positions of one of the global rankings: QS, THE or ARWU by 2020.

Novosibirsk State University entered the list of universities participating in the project through an open competition.

Being a participant of this project mean that NSU receives additional funding and is in a better position for:

Participating in international mega-grants
Developing joint experimental scientific projects in the field of breakthrough technologies
Conducting joint R&D projects with the Novosibirsk Technopark and the research institutes of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Developing engineering infrastructure of NSU laboratories to improve the effectiveness of applied R&D
Supporting laboratories with high productivity
Supporting mirror laboratories headed by Russian and foreign scientists-researchers
Developing and implementing English-taught Master and PhD programs
Accrediting English diploma programs with an international teaching body
Supporting programs aimed at improving administrative staff qualification
Providing bonuses for leading scientists lecturing at NSU
Attracting talented young scientists to teach and lecture at NSU

Plans on NSU development and its progress in getting into world top100 universities are described in the Road map.

QS World University Rankings

International academic council

The International Academic Council is working out recommendations on NSU's strategic development and the improvement of its international competitiveness, as well as conducting expert assessment of offers dealing with the development perspectives of research areas and academic reputation of educational programs.

Members of the Council are elected for a 5-year period and come from the field of world leading educational and research institutions dealing with NSU top-priority areas.

Name Surname	Place of employment
Alexandr Apolonski	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany
Elena Boldyreva	Institute of Solid State Chemistry and Mechanochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia
Valentin Vlassov	Director of the Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia
Eugene Demler	Harvard University, USA
Anatoly Derevyanko	Director of the Institute of Archeology and Ethnography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia
Grigory Dianov	University of Oxford, Great Britain
Vladimir Zakharov	University of Arizona, USA
Vladimir Zelman	University of Southern California, USA Department of Anesthesiology, Keck School of Medicine
Efim I. Zelmanov	Professor, University of California, San Diego (USA)
Alexandr Kostochka	Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana -Champaign, Illinois, USA
Jean Maríe Lehn	The University of Strasbourg Strasbourg, France
Eiji Ohtani	Department of Earth and Planetary Materials Science, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
Sergei Turitsyn	Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Gregory Falkovich	Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Sergey Netesov	Head of Laboratory NSU, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor
Vladimir Shiltsev	Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois, USA