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 18 May ay the CIPR conference in Nizhniy Nogorod the Tatarstan Deputy Prime Minister Roman Shaykhutdinov, the Rector of the Innopolis University Aleksandr Gasnikpov and the Vice-rector of the University Yevgeny Bobrov will take part at round tables session of the conference.
Experts will discuss the role of Tatarstan and Innopolis as one of the key technological centers of the country and how regional innovative platforms help to solve tasks of the whole Russian industry. A special emphasis will be placed on the digital transformation of the oil and gas sector and how large clusters and scientific and technological centers are becoming drivers of industry change.
On 16 May, speaking at a meeting in the Government House of the republic held by the regional Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin with participation of the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov and all municipalities taking part in it via videoconference, the Minister of Agriculture and Food of the republic Marat Zyabbarov reported that the sowing of spring crops is in full swing in the republic with 1m 38 thousand hectares or 61 per cent of the planned have been sown.
On May 14, on the sidelines of the XVII International Economic Forum “Russia-the Islamic World: KazanForum”, Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin and Head of the Federal Service for Accreditation Dmitry Volvach signed an agreement on interaction and cooperation in the development of the halal industry.
On May 14, Prime Minister of Tajikistan Kokhir Rasulzoda, who arrived on a working visit in Kazan to take part in the events of the XVII International Economic Forum “Russia-the Islamic World: KazanForum”, was met by Prime Minister of the republic Aleksey Pesoshin and other officials at the Kazan International Airport.