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Future Belongs to Innovation

On December 17th -the central office of the Interfax News Agency hosted the press conference devoted to the V All-Russia Youth Innovation Convention-2012, among organizers of which was Sholokhov Moscow State University for the Humanities.The annual event gathers about 1000 authors of modern development projects. According to Alexander Loktionov, a chairman of Seed Forum international fund in Russia, the purpose of the event is to help young inventors to bring their designs to life and to involve as many 15-20-year old people as possible. «The more teenagers gather together, the more the potential and the number of interesting development projects will be».

Sergey Belokonev, the head of The Federal Agency for Youth Affairs (Rosmolodezh), emphasized the significance of the Convention: «Our goal is to draw the attention of society to the national science development and to help authors to carry out their projects». There is a fund worth 4 million rubles created for these particular purposes. Every winner of Zvorykinsky’s project gets one million rubles. —

Alexander Chachava, the LETA Group president and the leading partner of LETA Capital, said the event would lend a weighty contribution to the development of the scientific-technical creativity in Russia.

Due to the cooperation with the western colleagues there are currently about 100 socially relevant projects turned into reality.

During the press conference it has become clear that organizers of the All-Russia youth innovation convention mean to focus not only on engineering designs, but also on the development of biotechnology and biochemistry. For example, one nominee to win is the special device which can find the predisposition to oncological diseases by examining one drop of blood.

In the end of the conference Sergey Belokonev added that similar projects would open young talents and help Russia to take over the leadership in the field of innovative technology.

Translated by a third-year student Mariana Danilchenko, Faculty of Foreign Languages and International Communication.