September 29
2016
The NSU project has received a grant in the final of the Innovation Competition in Education
The project of the NSU «International Medical Tournament» was nominated by the «Rybakov Fund» in the Innovation Competition in Education, which final was held at the International Conference on New Educational Technologies EdCrunch.
ICE is an annual competition for teachers, entrepreneurs, students who have something to offer in the field of education. The event is organized by Higher School of Economics with the support of the Strategic Initiatives Agency and the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation. In 2016, more than 700 applications were submitted for the competition. Out of them, a jury (about 100 experts in education, business, and other fields) have selected first 30 semi-finalists, then - 20 finalists, including the project from NSU.
The nonprofit organization «Rybakov Fund» has supported the project of the Novosibirsk State University - the only one of the projects presented in the final from the field of medicine.
— Igor Rybakov, a co-founder of the «Rybakov Fund» noticed our project, and we have received support in the form of a grant, which will help us to host the fourth International
Medical tournament, — said a fourth-year student of the Institute of Medicine and Psychology of the NSU Vitalina Dmitrieva.
The project «MeDicHouse» was developed by students of the medical faculty of the Novosibirsk State University with the support of the Potanin Charitable Foundation in 2013. The purpose of the event is the development of professional clinical, logical and analytical thinking among students of medical faculties and medical schools, the ability to use the acquired knowledge and creative, non-standard approach to saving patients' lives through familiarization and analysis of cases from medical practice.