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.

Alexander Samoylov

Alexander Samoylov

Director, Regional Development Department, Delovaya Sreda (Sberbank)
Quotes
04.09.2021
EEF 2021
New Ideas and Ideals: The Far East Mission
For us, [the level of involvement – ed.] is one of the main issues. When we develop content, we’re not doing it for the sake of content itself, but for people. There are some regions which never have issues with their audience. <...> And there are other regions who claim to do everything, but still no one comes. What is our take on the problem? Sometimes the label of officialdom creates a feeling of mistrust. No matter how much information is available on an official, public plane, a group of people will immediately react by saying, ‘We’re not going there, it’s got to be some sort of rubbish exercise. Sure, they’re trying to make people go somewhere to do something. No thanks! We’re happy living our lives’
04.09.2021
EEF 2021
Identifying Opportunities for Young People in the Far East
Interregional migration is real. This is something we need to deal with. We need to understand that today a young entrepreneur approaches ‘My Business’ centre in Vladivostok, while tomorrow he may be based in Khabarovsk or in Tatarstan. Yet, he or she is still a human being who has needs and who remain the focus of the government’s youth policy so to speak or at least its youth-oriented services. <…> What happens physically is cool. <…> But at the same time a digital space needs to be created, which a young person can use regardless of the region they are based in and regardless of their entrepreneurial status. <…> So basically, it is digital tracking with a view of what people need now and projecting what they might need tomorrow
04.09.2021
EEF 2021
Identifying Opportunities for Young People in the Far East
Learning is the one of the most efficient ways to get young people involved. Not promoting it though. Promoting it means people get to know these opportunities exist. Learning has two problems. The first one is those who teach – teachers and business coaches. <…> The other one is that young people do not like to study. Their values are freedom, flexibility and having a good time. We have a new term – edutainment. We live in the times of brief content that can be consumed within a unit of time