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A large-scale Russian project to create hackathons and popularize artificial intelligence exceeded expectations by one and a half times in terms of the number of participants, federal departments and regions actively joined it. This was announced by the director of the Department of Strategic Development and Innovation of the Ministry of Economic Development Rustam Tikhonov at a press conference in TASS dedicated to the results of the project in 2021.

On December 17, with the support of the government of the Rostov region, the final of the "SMART GUY" program of the Innovation Promotion Fund will be held in the Don capital. The SMART GUY program is an opportunity for young innovators to realize their innovative project. The participants of the competition are students, postgraduates and young scientists aged 18 to 30 years. The main preference in the competition is given to commercially oriented scientific projects, the creators of which receive a grant of 500 thousand rubles for a period of two years.

The event will be held as part of the Year of Science and Technology.The winners and prize-winners of the municipal stage, which took place in October-November of this year, are invited to participate. These are 182 11th grade students from general education organizations of 46 municipal districts and urban districts of the region.

The Foundation for the Promotion of Innovation named the winners of the competitions "UMNIK-Electronics", "UMNIK-Sber", "Start-Artificial Intelligence" (2nd stage), "Commercialization" (15th stage) and "Design Centers-REA".The winners of the competitions within the framework of the "SMART GUY" program will receive 500 thousand rubles each for the implementation of projects.