OREANDA-NEWS. September 21, 2012. From July 4 to August 2, 2012 State Corporation ‘Bank for Development and Foreign Economic Affairs (Vnesheconombank)’ held a competition for the best innovation project for participants in the shift “Innovations and Technical Creativity” of the All-Russian Seliger -2012 Youth Educational Forum as part of the educational project “Training Specialists – Participants in Investment Projects Implemented with the Assistance of Development Institutions.

The competition aims to assist the process of commercializing innovative ideas, developments and inventions through raising a level of expertise of future Russia’s s scientific and technical personnel on mechanisms for raising investments for implementing investment projects.

The competition’s participants were required to fill in a questionary and give the most detailed description of their innovation project. The applications received went through two stages of selection in Vnesheconombank’s structural subdivisions. All in all 27 applications were submitted from Moscow, the Kemerovo, Leningrad, Saratov, Novosibirsk, Voronezh, Astrakhan, Penza, Tomsk, Moscow and Kursk regions, the Altai and Stavropol Territories as well as the following republics: Tatarstan, Komi, Bashkortostan, Chuvashia and Udmurtia.

The winners of the completion were as follows:
Alexandr Viktorovich Berveno – post graduate student of the Institute of Coal Chemistry and Materials Chemistry, the city of Kemerovo. The project of carbon nanoporous sorbents.
Sergei Alexandrovich Pozdnyakov – a post graduate student of the Voronezh State pedagogical University, the city of Voronezh. The project of energy-generating road surfaces
Alexei Mikhailovich Samsonov – post graduate student of the Chuvash State Pedagogical  University named after Yakovlev, the city of Novocheboksarsk. The project of computer technology model of targeted drug delivery to the cell.

The competition’s winners are to undertake a 4-week on the job training in Vnesheconombank’s investment subdivisions.

In the course of their on the job training young specialists are to be consulted on their own projects and will take a look at Vnesheconombank’s structural subdivisions operation and will be able to apply received knowledge in practice.

A competition for the best project for the Seliger Forum’s participants was held for the third time and it is designed for students and post graduate students of technical and economic universities whose activity is associated with developing investment projects.