On 8 October Saratov University, the regional curator of RAS hub schools, became the platform for the meeting of the regional project group. Also there was organised the open panel discussion attended by the local pedagogues.

The special guest was Federal Curator of the RAS hub schools project, Deputy Director of the RAS Office of Coordination with Government Bodies and Research Community Alexander M. Solomatin. At first, he took part in the meeting of the regional project group attended by representatives of the Ministry of Education of the Saratov Region, the Committee on Education of the Saratov City Municipal Structure, and three principals of the RAS hub schools. They discussed the organisational issues of the project development. Moreover, Alexander Solomatin told his Saratov colleagues about the achievements and obstacles of the project in other pilot regions.

Then the project issues were debated during the open panel discussion membered by pedagogy staff of the Saratov RAS hub schools and principals of SSU partner-schools where SSU corporate departments function. Their professors take part in the Research-to-Methodology Council on Pedagogy Education, in their turn.

The first to speak at the open panel discussion was SSU Rector, Professor Aleksei N. Chumachenko. He greeted the guests and marked that, traditionally, one of the university priorities is to cooperate with schools. Due to the status of the regional coordinator of the RAS project SSU will broaden its work with endowed children in the region and start new mutual research.

Then the audience was welcomed by First Deputy Minister of Education of the Saratov Region Elena V. Nerozya. She underlined the priority importance of the project for the region and congratulated the colleagues on the new status.

Federal Curator of RAS Hub Schools Alexander Solomatin spoke in detail about the project goals and potential and awarded the principals of the three RAS hub schools, Physics and Technology Lyceum №1, Liberal Arts Lyceum, and Gymnasium №1, with the certificates.

Then Alexander Solomatin visited Physics and Technology Lyceum №1, where the teachers and school students told him about the school history, priority education and research projects, and recent victories and achievements.

The federal curator also visited the CentreIT Youth Innovation Centre, and he agreed Physics and Technology Lyceum №1 had already become a RAS hub school as since 2014 Curator of Youth Engineering Projects has been a lyceum graduate, Senior Research Fellow of the Saratov Branch of Kotelnikov Institute of Radioengineering and Electronics of RAS, SSU Associate Professor with Terminal Degree Anatolii S. Karavayev.