40 social entrepreneurs of Tatarstan have submitted applications for a grant of 500 thousand rubles at the educational project of the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Tatarstan
Since mid-August, in the Republic of Tatarstan, as part of the implementation of the national project to support SMEs, a free online course for social entrepreneurs “Good Deed” has been held. On September 5, a business defense took place, where 40 participants presented their projects to an expert commission. All participants received documents of the established form on the completion of the course.
Based on the results of the training, this year entrepreneurs plan to apply for a grant of up to 500 thousand rubles for the implementation and development of their business. Appropriate applications for support were formed with the help of mentors on the educational program. Financial assistance from the state can be used to rent or repair premises, purchase equipment, pay utility bills and other business purposes.
Also, during the 3 weeks of training, the participants discussed measures to support a socially oriented business, learned how to develop, create and package social projects. Mastered the basics of Internet marketing, the concept of a personal brand and strategic planning in social business.
During the defense of the projects, the commission's experts answered the current questions of the participants about the conduct of a socially oriented business. The experts and mentors of the course were: Dilyara Gainutdinova, manager of the kindergarten "Mosaic-republic", Ilnur Zinnurov, director of the FPRB "Factory of Entrepreneurship", Mikhail Untura, head of the Center for Social Innovations of the Center "My Business", certified trainer of JSC "SME Corporation" and Russian Export Center JSC, Mikhail Kuznetsov, Commissioner for Entrepreneurship Development in Kazan and others.
The commission presented their cases: Gulnara Sirazieva - a class project for children with disabilities aged 8 to 12 years old "I want to go to school!" school-age children during the holidays, Naila Khairullina - a neuropsychological room with the introduction of equipment for the sensory integration method for children with disabilities, and so on. Projects for the creation of toys, speech therapy rooms for children with pronunciation defects and disabilities, centers for early infant swimming, and many others were also considered.
The program was implemented within the framework of the National Project "Small and Medium Enterprises and Support for Individual Entrepreneurial Initiatives", the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Tatarstan and the My Business Center of the NGO MCC "Entrepreneurship Support Fund of the Republic of Tatarstan".