In accordance with the orders of The Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation of December 18, 2019 No. 1399 and of June 08, 2020 No. 768 on SPIIRAS basis with joining IL RAS, SRCES RAS, FSRI IAERD, N-W CIRPFM, FSRI “Novgorod SRAI” was established The Federal State Institution of Science “St. Petersburg Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences” (SPC RAS).

Congratulations to Professor Vasily Yu. Osipov, the Сhief Researcher at the SPC RAS Laboratory of Computing and Information Systems and Software Engineering, on obtaining a patent for the invention «A Method of Intelligent Multilevel Information Processing in a Neural Network».

On december 22, 2020 the St Petersburg Committee for Science and Higher Education summarised the results of its annual competition to award grants to young scientists, young candidates of sciences of universities, sectoral and academic institutes located in St Petersburg.

On December 10, 2020 took place the international on-line conference «Regional Strategies in Social and Economic Development: Target Orientation», arranged by Institute of Problems in Regional Economics of RAS (IPRE RAS). Totally fifteen scientific presentations were heard.

The project “Development of an innovative device intended for contactless laser stimulation of agricultural crops” submitted by Natalia Sevastyanova, Deputy Director for Research of Novgorod SRAI - branch of SPC RAS, won a grant at the "StartSUV-2020" competition initiated by the Innovation Promotion Foundation.

On November 23, 2020 Head of the Hydrobiology Laboratory at the Institute of Limnology of RAS (IL RAS – SPC RAS) Evgeny Kurashov and Leading Researcher of Scientific Research Centre of Ecological Safety of RAS (SRCES RAS – SPC RAS) Andrei Sharov were spoken about anthropogenic factors, the influence of blue-green algae on the ecosystem of water bodies and rivers.

We express our deep condolences to the family and friends of Alexander Grigoryevich, specialists and employees of JSC «Breeding Factory «Ruchi».

In 2020 the «Speech and Computer Conference» SPECOM entered the international list of top-conferences in Computer Science. 2020 added new experience to the conference organizers: for the first time SPECOM functioned completely in on-line format using Zoom service.

Researchers from the SPC RAS Laboratory of speech and multimodal interfaces won at the international competitions in computer paralinguistics INTERSPEECH ComParE 2020.

The event was organized by "The Institute of Milk" and was held from October 21 -23, 2020 in Voronezh. The business program included presentations and discussions on the most relevant issues in the dairy industry.