Acceptance of applications for participation in the competition of innovative projects “Start-CT” has been announced. To participate, it is necessary to develop an innovative project in one of the areas: Digital Technologies; Medicine and Technologies of Health Preservation; New Materials and Chemical Technologies; New Devices and Intelligent Manufacturing Technologies; Biotechnology; Resource-saving Energy.
Applications for the competition are accepted until October 5, 2020 on the website: https://online.fasie.ru/m/?ReturnUrl=%2F
All projects must be completed within a year. The winners will receive a grant of up to 3 million rubles.
For preparation of applications for this competition, participants from Tatarstan can contact the Ministry of Economy of the Republic. Consulting, expert and informational support can be obtained by phone: (843) 524-91-39.
In addition, advice can be obtained through the TatPatent digital platform (https://patentrt.ru/), created under the Ministry of Economy. Today TatPatent provides an opportunity to fill out an application for the “START” competition with free expert support and assistance in preparing the application.
Participants of the competition will also be able to take part in the educational intensive Archipelago 20.35, the selection for which starts on September 10 at the website https://leader-id.ru/. As part of the educational intensive Archipelago 20.35, acceleration programs will be held for teams implementing their projects in the field of Artificial Intelligence. Mentors of acceleration programs will reveal the features of the “Start” program, outline the key sections of the application and give recommendations on how to fill them out, and analyze typical mistakes in formation of applications.
The “Start-CT” competition is held by the Innovation Promotion Fund. It is aimed at creating new and supporting existing small innovative enterprises striving to develop and master the production of a new product, goods, technologies and services in order to create/develop end-to-end digital technologies.