The winners of the Student Startup contest in Tatarstan won 1 million rubles each
Today, at the Entrepreneur's House, the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Tatarstan a meeting with the winners of the third stage of the Student Startup competition from the Innovation Promotion Fund was held. The winners were 242 projects from Tatarstan. The authors of the projects developed on the basis of their own scientific and technical and scientific and technological research became the holders of grants of 1 million rubles. Deputy Minister of Economy of the Republic of Tatarstan Yulai Minnullin made a welcoming speech to the students.
As the Deputy Minister of Economy noted, this year Tatarstan took the first place in terms of the number of applications for the Student Startup competition, ahead of Moscow and St. Petersburg. In the republic, about 1.5 thousand students who wanted to compete for a grant and become entrepreneurs applied for the competition. He added that every year there are new forms of entrepreneurial support in technological areas – from medical to artificial intelligence.
"Now the contestants are opening their individual enterprises, registering, preparing business plans. In the fourth quarter of this year, this process will be completed, and they will be able to use a gratuitous form of support, funds are allocated in stages," Yulai Minnullin said.
A business meeting for the winners of the third stage of the Student Startup competition was held at the My Business Center. Young entrepreneurs were told about free services for the development of startups, preparation and submission of reports to the Innovation Promotion Fund, how to attract additional finance to their project.
As part of the implementation of the national project "Small and Medium-sized Entrepreneurship", a regional representative office of the Innovation Assistance Fund was opened last year on the basis of the My Business center of Tatarstan.