A business meeting of student startups will be held in Kazan

The My Business Center, together with the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Tatarstan, will hold a business meeting on August 31 at 14:00 for the winners of the third stage of the Student Startup competition from the Innovation Promotion Foundation.

The Innovation Assistance Fund announced the results of the 3rd stage of the Student Startup competition - 242 projects from Tatarstan became grant holders. According to the results of the examination, 242 million rubles will be attracted from the FSI to the Republic of Tatarstan for the development of technological entrepreneurship.

In just 3 stages of the competition, 371 millionaire students appeared in the republic. Tatarstan students and postgraduates submitted more than 1,477 applications for the competition. These are projects developed on the basis of their own scientific, technical and technological research, with the potential for commercialization.

At the meeting, young innovators will be told about free services for the development of startups, preparation and submission of reports to the Innovation Promotion Fund, as well as how to attract additional finance to their project.

The speakers on the day of the event will be:

• representatives of the Skolkovo Foundation on the topic of educational programs for startups,
• representatives of the Innovative Technopark "Idea" about the existing possibility of registering student startups in the Technopark "Idea",
• representatives of the IT Park Business Incubator about the existing possibility of registering student startups in the business incubator,
• representatives of the SEZ "Innopolis", about the existing possibility of registering student startups on the territory of the SEZ "Innopolis",
• representatives of the Investment and Venture Fund of the Republic of Tatarstan on startup support tools.

Let us recall that as part of the implementation of the national project "Small and Medium-sized Entrepreneurship" on the basis of the Center "My Business" of the Republic of Tatarstan, a regional representative office of the Innovation Assistance Fund was opened in 2022.

The My Business Center carries out the overall integration of the implementation process of each specific project-the winner of the Student Startup competition with enterprises, universities, ministries and departments of the Republic of Tatarstan for further commercialization of technological projects.

The Center also grows finalist students of the Student Startup program into technological enterprises through training and mentoring from experts of technological entrepreneurship.

The meeting will be held at the Entrepreneur's House, at the address: Kazan, Petersburgskaya st., 28, 3rd floor, hall "Alafuzov".