On April 1, 2022, the presentation of the I Regional Contest of Student Graduation Works in the form of Startup Projects for Obtaining Grants was held at the Kursk Cluster of Creative Industries “Potok”.

The presentation was attended by the deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation Ekaterina Vladimirovna Kharchenko, the Governor of the Kursk region Roman Vladimirovich Starovoit, the Head of the city of Kursk Igor Vyacheslavovich Kutsak, heads of authorities, representatives of public organizations and mass media.

The project is initiated and implemented by ANO “Together We Will Do More” with the support of the administration of the Kursk region.

Grants are allocated to support business ideas or projects for creation of a reproducible and scalable business model for bringing a product or service to market in the following categories: product/service in the idea stage; business model for bringing a new product/service to market (idea + business plan); minimum viable new product/service (idea + business plan + complete product/service).

The amount of each grant will be up to 1 million rubles.

The final qualification works of students or student teams (no more than 2 people) of all forms of education (intramural, extramural) on the educational programs of the bachelor’s degree, specialist and master’s degree programs of the universities of the Kursk region with the term of graduation thesis defence in 2022 can take part in the Competition.

More information about the contest, requirements for participants and the time frame are available at the link >>>