ABOUT THE INITIATION OF THE UNESCO MEDAL

In accordance with a request from the International Commission for the Development of EOLSS Theme «Nanoscience and Nanotechnologies», Irina Bokova, UNESCO Director-General, decided on 1st March, 2010 to initiate the UNESCO medal entitled «Contribution to development of nanoscience and nanotechnologies» and authorized the use of the UNESCO logo and name for the medal, along with the confiration for the design and the statute of the medal.

EXTRACTS FROM THE MEDAL STATUTE

UNESCO medal «Contribution to development of nanoscience and nanotechnologies»

UNESCO medal «Contribution to development of nanoscience and nanotechnologies» was established on the basis of creation of UNESCO-EOLSS theme on «Nanoscience and nanotechnologies» within the EOLSS series...
The medal represents a coiled spiral on its face side; at the center: semiabstract sign «Nanoscience and nanotechnologies»; in the right top corner of the spiral: text «Paris 2009» and UNESCO emblem; at the reverse: UNESCO emblem at the center; inscription in English «For contribution to development of nanoscience and nanotechnologies» on both sides.
UNESCO medal «Contribution to development of nanoscience and nanotechnologies» is adjudged by UNESCO Director General to both various representatives of nanoscience and nanotechnologies and scientific and public agencies, as well as politicians that contributed to their development in the spirit of priority tasks of UNESCO.
Adjudgement of the medal is accompanied by investing a UNESCO diploma...
A nomination to UNESCO medal «Contribution to development of nanoscience and nanotechnologies» is a function of International Commission for Development of EOLSS Theme on 6.152 «Nanoscience and Nanotechnologies»...

IN NOVEMBER, 2010, awarding of UNESCO medals «Contribution to development of nanoscience and nanotechnologies», diplomas, and gold badges to a group of scientists from Russia, China, and CIS countries took part in Paris at UNESCO headquarters.
The medal no. 1 was awarded to Nobel laureate Zhores Alferov, the medal no. 2 – to Professor Chunli Bai, Executive Vice-president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

H. E. Mrs. Shuyun Shi, the Ambassador and Permanent Delegate of China to UNESCO, takes the medal of Chunli Bai.

Click HERE to view a video about awarding UNESCO medal «Contribution to development of nanoscience and nanotechnologies» to Zhores Alferov.

The ceremony of awarding held by UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova:

the medal awarded to V.A. Chereshnev, Chairman of the Committee on Science and High Technologies of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of Russia, was given to H. E. Mrs. E.V. Mitrofanova, the Ambassador and Permanent Delegate of Russia to UNESCO;

awarding of Yu.V. Gulyaev, a member of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences;

awarding of V.Ya. Panchenko, Chairman of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research;

awarding of the Intergovernmental Foundation for Educational, Scientific and Cultural Cooperation;

awarding of A.S. Sigov, Rector of Moscow State Institute of Radiotechnics, Electronics and Automation.

At the reception in honor of the laureates of the UNESCO medal. From left to right: E.V. Mitrofanova, Yu.V. Gulyaev, S.P. Kapitza.

Click HERE to read more about the encyclopedia Nanoscience and Nanotechnologies

On OCTOBER 23, 2009, the presentation of the UNESCO-EOLSS theme on Nanoscience and Nanotechnologies was held at the UNESCO Headquarters, place de Fontenoy, 7, Paris.
Prof. V. A. Chereshnev, the President of the Committee of the State Duma of the Russian Federation on Science and High Technologies, Academician of AMS, nanotechnologists from USA, Germany, Belgium, Italia, Russia, etc., took part in it. They gave speeches at the First International Conference within the framework of the global UNESCO/EOLSS project 6.152 Nanoscience and Nanotechnologies, before the presentation. (The information on the conference is available at the site of Rossotrudnichestvo.)
The resolution of the conference on the UNESCO medal «For contribution to the development of nanoscience and nanotechnologies» was adopted, and the model of the medal was presented.
The encyclopedia was introduced by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Director-General of UNESCO, Head of Rossotrudnichestvo, rector of the Moscow State Technical University n. a. N. E. Bauman.
Chief coeditors of the encyclopedia that includes articles of nanotechnologists from more than ten countries are Prof. Chunli Bai, the Executive Vice-president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) (PRC), Prof. Osama O. Awadelkarim, the Science and Technology consultant of the U. S. Department of State (USA), and Prof. S. P. Kapitza, the President of the Eurasian Physical Society (Russia).
The encyclopedia is intended for the advanced students dealing with nanotechnologies, for professors preparing lectures and seminar studies, professionals, experts, who wish apply their knowledge in the fields beyond their speciality, for analysts, managers and executives intending to use the acquired knowledge in the process of decision-making. It is also highly valuable for the investigators endeavoring to obtain the information about innovation approaches to solving the problems.
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The moments of the conference:

S. Mironov,
President of the Federation Council

To the participants and visitors of the presentation of the Russian version of the encyclopedia Nanoscience and Nanotechnologies at UNESCO

My cordial greetings to the participants and visitors of the presentation and international conference at UNESCO.
In conditions of the global financial and economic crisis, the mankind seeks the optimal, socially oriented ways forward. One of them is innovativeness where nanoscience and nanotechnologies are really the main power. This thesis has a sound evidence in the form of the encyclopedia Nanoscience and Nanotechnologies created under the auspices of UNESCO by prominent scientists from 11 countries of the world, including Russia.
In this context, it was very pleasant to know that the first publication encyclopedia in print form is in Russian. This fact lets to expect that the contribution of Russian science and Russian nanotechnologists on such an important track of civilization development will increase steadily.
I wish you new creative successes and all the best.

The working presidium

From left to right: Prof. V. A. Chereshnev, President of the Committee on Science and High Technologies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, academician; A. V. Yakovenko, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation; E. Roduner, contributor to the encyclopedia Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, University of Stuttgart, Germany