{"id":4432,"date":"2020-01-30T13:09:17","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T10:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/?page_id=4432"},"modified":"2020-01-30T13:09:19","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T10:09:19","slug":"baikal-initiative-2018","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/about-the-foundation\/activity-areas\/baikal-initiative-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Baikal Initiative 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3>2018-2019<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Lake Baikal Foundation for Environmental Applications and Research launched the second grant competition for young researchers \u00abBaikal Initiative\u00bb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the terms of the competition, Lake Baikal Foundation will allocate 1 million rubles to finance talented solutions both in the direction of environmental protection of the lake and in expanding the range of applied scientific research on the Baikal due to its unique endemic environment. The participants have to prove that their projects are relevant and important according to the \u00abpublic expertise\u00bb: financial assistance will be provided to the projects which will independently collect 20% of the project budget through crowdfunding, sponsors and other public support channels. 80% of successful projects&#8217; budgets will be covered with grants from Lake Baikal Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3>Goals:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>detection and supporting technological and applied scientific research aimed at protecting the Baikal\u2019s environment;<\/li><li>popularization of scientific knowledge about the Baikal.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3>Targets:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>to update the contest documents;<\/li><li>to draw researchers\u2019 attention to the contest, to post information about it at web-portals, in social media and at scientific organizations\u2019 web-sites;<\/li><li>to interact with the Scientific-technological Council of the Foundation, to analyze and to select the most relevant and useful projects;<\/li><li>to provide&nbsp;grants&nbsp;for the winners;<\/li><li>to help with projects\u2019 implementation.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3>Winners of&nbsp; the \u00abBaikal Initiative\u00bb contest 2018:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ol><li>\u00abDevelopment of implantable fluorescent biosensors for in vivo monitoring of heavy metals in tissues of endemic amphipods of lake Baikal\u00bb. Manager \u2013 Anton N. Gurkov. The Expert Council highlighted the team\u2019s high qualification, modern research methods and, most importantly, the fact that the project will help to solve the problem of heavy metal pollution of the Baikal.<\/li><li>\u00abConservation and recruitment of the Olkhon vole population in the Baikal region\u00bb. Manager \u2013 Igor V. Moroldoev. The initiative meets a very important challenge \u2013 to prevent Olkhon voles\u2019 extinction. This species was first described quite recently but it is already endangered.<\/li><li>In 2018 the last year\u2019s participants also had an opportunity to win the contest. Grand Prix went to the project-winner of 2017 <a href=\"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/interview-with-alexander-povarintsev-manager-of-the-project-monitoring-for-water-birds-in-the-southern-part-of-lake-baikal-in-the-situation-of-long-lasting-low-water-period\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u00abMonitoring of waterbirds in the southern part of lake Baikal in the long-lasting low-water period\u00bb<\/a>. Manager \u2013 Alexander I. Povarintsev. The experts marked exceptional scientific novelty of the project. The researchers also proved social significance of their project: they raised money for co-financing with crowdfunding.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>The winners who found the needed amount of co-financing will start implementation of their projects in February 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can find details on the project stages, the Expert Council members and the description of the winning projects 2017 at the <a href=\"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/baikalskayainitsiativa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u00abBaikal Initiative\u00bb<\/a> website (in Russian).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2018-2019 Lake Baikal Foundation for Environmental Applications and Research launched the second grant competition for young researchers \u00abBaikal Initiative\u00bb. According to the terms of the competition, Lake Baikal Foundation will allocate 1 million rubles to finance talented solutions both in the direction of environmental protection of the lake and in expanding the range of applied &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/about-the-foundation\/activity-areas\/baikal-initiative-2018\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Baikal Initiative 2018&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4275,"parent":66,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4432\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=4432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4432\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4433,"href":"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4432\/revisions\/4433\/"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4275\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=4432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=4432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}