Awards presented to winners of Regional youth forum
5 March 2014, Wednesday
On March 5 Tatarstan Prime Minister Ildar Khalikov visited final exhibition of Regional youth forum 2014 at Kazan Tennis Academy.
46 best projects were divided in 8 categories: “youth science and innovations”, “Architecture and urban environment”, “I am a businessman”, “Initiative”, “Safety”, “Inspiration”, “Information flow”, “Start for future”.
Chief state inspector of traffic safety Rifkat Minnikhanov presented the projects in “Safety” category.
Ildar Khalikov was interested in Smart Parking project presented by students from IT lyceum. Smart Parking is a free application for smart phones for searching spare places at parking sites. Head of Tatarstan Government asked Minister of Information and Communication to work out the project.
Postgraduate students of Kazan State University of Architecture and Engineering presented long-lasting water-proof material for flat roofs made of self-consolidating concrete.
Students of Kazan Federal University presented the project “Best reward is kids smiles” that implies creation of special swings for all children, including wheelchair users.
Ildar Khalikov presented awards to winners of the contest, and wished young people to realize their ideas.
The Regional youth forum was held for the fourth time to provide conditions, discussion, assessment and promotion of socially important, innovative and public ideas and projects.
Young people aged 16-30, students of higher and secondary educational institutions, activists of children’s and youth public associations take part in the contest.
On March 10, the third meeting of the organizing committee on preparation and holding of the 20th anniversary Russian Venture Forum 2026 to be held in Kazan from April 8 to 10, chaired by Russian Minister of Science and Higher Education Valery Falkov and with participation of Tatarstan Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan and co-chair of the forum’s organizing committee Aleksey Pesoshin, President of the Academy of Sciences of Tatarstan Rifkat Minnikhanov, Director of the Investment and Venture Fund of Tatarstan Damir Galiev as well as representatives of federal and regional authorities, development institutions and partner organizations via videoconference, took place.
On 10 March, speaking at a briefing dedicated to the development of the national Max messenger in Tatarstan and held in the Government House of the republic with all municipalities taking part in it via videoconference, the Minister of Digitalization of Public Administration, Information Technologies and Communication of the republic Ilya Nachvin informed that according to the data of March 2026 about 1.5m residents of Tatarstan use domestic Max messenger.
On 5 February Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin took part in ceremony of awarding winners of the regional competition “The Woman of the Year. The Man of the Year: A Woman’s View” held at the Korston Leisure and Recreation Center in Kazan.
On 4 March at a briefing in the Government House of the republic Tatarstan Minister of Land and Property Relation Fanil Agliullin told about changes in land legislation enforced from 1 March of the current year. He said that they simplify a number of procedures for land plot owners including expanding the possibilities for land use and changing the rules for changing the category of a plot.