Ildar Khalikov congratulates winners of 5th Regional youth forum
15 May 2015, Friday
1271 applications were submitted for participation in the 5th Regional youth forum. 41 projects were selected to compete in the final. This year a certain ministry or agency was attached to every project, and their representatives assessed the projects at the selection stage and gave the forecast for the future.
One of the projects is a virtual tour around the cultural heritage sites of Tatarstan. The project developers told Ildar Khalikov that using 3D models visitors will be able to see how objects looked like in the past and how they look like now.
The project “Know your city” aims to tell guests about people the Kazan streets were named after. Information plates will be placed on stops and public places. The prime minister offered reducing the project cost by changing plates for stickers and placing them on transport stops near city maps.
One of the authors of the project “School sport” Vadim Yangirov told Ildar Khalikov about the project “School football leagues” that has been realized in Naberezhnye Chelny for two years.
Summing up, Khalikov asked organizers of the forum to send their proposals on improvement of the event.
Projects were presented in 10 nominations. The project “Use of by-products of oil industry in road building materials” won in the nomination “Youth science and innovations”. The concept of the renovation of “Lebyazhie” park and the project of Kazan-Arena business park “You are a businessman” won in the nomination “Architecture and urban environment”.
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.