A socially oriented non-financial development institution and a major organizer of nationwide and international conventions; exhibitions; and business, public, youth, sporting, and cultural events.

The Roscongress Foundation is a socially oriented non-financial development institution and a major organizer of nationwide and international conventions; exhibitions; and business, public, youth, sporting, and cultural events. It was established in pursuance of a decision by the President of the Russian Federation.

The Foundation was established in 2007 with the aim of facilitating the development of Russia’s economic potential, promoting its national interests, and strengthening the country’s image. One of the roles of the Foundation is to comprehensively evaluate, analyse, and cover issues on the Russian and global economic agendas. It also offers administrative services, provides promotional support for business projects and attracting investment, helps foster social entrepreneurship and charitable initiatives.

Each year, the Foundation’s events draw participants from 209 countries and territories, with more than 15,000 media representatives working on-site at Roscongress’ various venues. The Foundation benefits from analytical and professional expertise provided by 5,000 people working in Russia and abroad.

The Foundation works alongside various UN departments and other international organizations, and is building multi-format cooperation with 212 economic partners, including industrialists’ and entrepreneurs’ unions, financial, trade, and business associations from 86 countries worldwide, and 293 Russian public organizations, federal and regional executive and legislative bodies of the Russian Federation.

The Roscongress Foundation has Telegram channels in Russian t.me/Roscongress, English – t.me/RoscongressDirect, Spanish – t.me/RoscongressEsp and Arabic t.me/RosCongressArabic. Official website and Information and Analytical System of the Roscongress Foundation:roscongress.org.

Meir Pugatch

Meir Pugatch

Professor, University of Haifa
Quotes
26.05.2018
SPIEF 2018
Regulating the Technological Singularity: How Can We Open Doors to the New?
Let’s take cloning and stem cells. We have been afraid that we were going to be cloned, that it was going to be total hell. Yet now we’re cloning organisms for the better of the humanity
26.05.2018
SPIEF 2018
Regulating the Technological Singularity: How Can We Open Doors to the New?
We do not drive innovations, the market does. If you take a look at all technological revolutions, we are talking about is the fourth revolution, the Internet of things, artificial intelligence and Big Data
26.05.2018
SPIEF 2018
Life Sciences in 2030: A New Era for Biotechnology
Russia has a great starting position: capacity and infrastructure. Clinical trials take up 60–70% of the world's total R&D, which amounts to about USD 100 billion. However, over the past 7 years the number of clinical trials in Russia has declined, not increased. What are the reasons for this lag? First of all, these are complex price and reward conditions. Gaps in the regulation of intellectual property rights. To a certain extent, this is a localization problem