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The innovation assistance Fund continues to provide grant support to projects under the national program "Digital economy of the Russian Federation". As part of the summer-autumn cycle, applications for the UMNIK - Digital Russia competition, a universal all - Russian competition aimed at supporting projects in the field of end-to-end technologies of the digital economy, have been accepted. This is the second set of projects under this program in 2020.

An online data hackathon was held in the Rostov region. It is organized as part of the second stage of the international project ASI World AI & Data Challenge.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that he is ready to hold a meeting on the development of high-tech industries in the near future, and instructed Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin to work on this issue.

On July 9, during a meeting of the ASI Supervisory Board, Dmitry Peskov, special representative of the President of the Russian Federation for digital and technological development, presented the concept of up Great technology competitions. The competitions were initiated by RVC, ASI and the SKOLKOVO Foundation as part of the National technology initiative.

The listening rate was 70% , with an average of 10 to 30% for similar courses. At the end of June, the online accelerator of The rukami project of the NTI Circle movement for the organizers of technology circles was completed. From may 26 to June 28, more than 200 online sessions, seminars, lectures and individual meetings with experts, trainers and mentors were organized, dedicated to online tools for circles, exchange of best practices, formation of topics for NTI circles, creation and development of technology circles. More than 400 people from 75 regions of Russia took part in the program to transform clubs from offline to online format.

On July 7, Ilya Kurmyshev, Director of NTI market development at RVC, spoke about support programs for high-tech companies at the session "Financing medium-sized enterprises: how businesses can build cooperation with development institutions", held as part of the Innoprom international industrial marathon.

Almost 500 applications were submitted by developers, inventors and entrepreneurs who want to participate in the competition for the mayor's award "Innovator of Moscow". The finalists were the authors of 30 projects, said Deputy mayor of the capital Natalia Sergunina.

The Ministry of economic development of the Rostov region announces the beginning of accepting documents for granting subsidies to small and medium-sized businesses in 2020 for the creation and (or) maintenance of youth innovation creativity centers in accordance with the decree Of the government of the Rostov region dated 29.06.2017 No. 475 "on the procedure for providing subsidies to small and medium-sized businesses for the creation and (or) maintenance of youth innovation creativity centers".

Applications are accepted until October 15, 2020 Partners in the international consortium – Germany, Czech Republic, Luxembourg, Belgium (regions: Wallonia, Flanders), Turkey, Brazil.

There are more than 2,000 startups in SKOLKOVO's portfolio to date, and they are showing steady growth: last year, revenue increased by 45 percent to 100 billion rubles. Such data was provided on Thursday by the Deputy Chairman of the Russian security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, at a meeting with startup leaders of the SKOLKOVO innovation center.