The A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences will participate in the All-Russian Winter Scientific School of the Floating University, which will be held from February 9 to 11, 2026.
The School will be held in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kaliningrad, Murmansk, Sevastopol, Rostov-on-Don, Arkhangelsk, Listvyanka (Lake Baikal), Vladivostok, and Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.
The Winter School program includes lectures, workshops, excursions, and introductions to research teams in laboratories. The School will help junior students choose a research field and become familiar with modern marine science. Senior students, graduate students, and young scientists will find a supervisor and expand their professional network. The School will also include one-day research sessions for high school students.
The Winter School program includes 50 tracks in the following scientific areas:
- Ocean and Atmospheric Physics
- Marine Biology
- Geology and Geophysics
- Data Analysis, Methods, and Instrumentation
- Interdisciplinary Research
The IEE RAS track is "Marine Biodiversity: Methods and Trends in Marine Mammal and Bird Studies." Detailed information can be found at the link.
The school is designed for undergraduate and graduate students majoring in Earth sciences, as well as related fields such as physics, mathematics, computer science, biology, and chemistry. Participants of the Winter School will be eligible for a competitive selection for the Floating University expeditions during the 2026 field season and will also have access to an aggregator of internships and job openings from program partners.
To participate in the Winter School, please complete an application form on the website pu-ocean.ru. Space is limited; a competitive selection process will be conducted based on the applications received.
Deadline: November 14, 2025!
The school will be held in Russian. Participation in the Winter School is free. Participants will receive information on our Telegram channel.
The Winter School is the first stage of the All-Russian scientific and educational program "Floating University". The program is implemented within the framework of the UN Decade of Ocean Science and is part of the "Science of Victory" initiative of the Decade of Science and Technology of the Russian Federation, and is supported by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. The overall organization is carried out by the Floating University Coordination Center at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.
The Winter School helps disseminate knowledge about the ocean, provide professional guidance to talented young people, and thereby address the personnel shortage in the field of Earth sciences in Russia.