2nd Information letter

V International Natural Sciences Tournament

November 12-17, 2014, Saint Petersburg State University, Institute of Chemistry

Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg, Peterhof

Dear colleagues!

International Natural Sciences Tournament every year collects bright young scientists, who can generate new scientific ideas and maintain their own ideas during dynamic scientific polemics. The Tournament helps forming scientific relations between participants, experts and industrial partners.

International Natural Sciences Tournament (INST) is a team competition for current undergraduate, Master’s students, and students planning to graduate in 2014. Students should have one of the following specializations: Natural Sciences, Medicine, Pharmaceuticals or Engineering. The main goal of the competition is teaching students how to apply their knowledge to solve current practical scientific and industrial problems.

The Tournament attracts new participants from different countries from 2010. In 2013 we recieved participants from Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Estonia and India.We will be glad if Your University can propose a team of 5 people to participate in the Tournament.

The Tournament consists of extramural (1st) and intramural (2nd) rounds. To participate in the extramural round we ask teams which need visa to come to Saint-Petersburg to send solutions of problems of the extramural round until September 20, 2014. Solutions of the problems, please, send on tournament@chem.spbu.ru . Problem set for the INST-2014 extramural round are available online at www.scitourn.com . Please register your team online on the website www.scitourn.com/reg.

If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact us: tournament@chem.spbu.ru; skype: scitourn or tel: +7812-958-7327.