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.

Ksenia Shoygu

Ksenia Shoygu

President, Russian Triathlon Federation; Leader, League of Heroes Project
Quotes
16.06.2023
SPIEF 2023
Corporate Sport: The Role of Business in Supporting Sport and the Role of Sport in Supporting Company Values
All companies buy into how effective this is. They also appreciate the extent to which these expenditures guarantee the efficiency they were after, and the result they have been waiting for
16.06.2023
SPIEF 2023
Corporate Sport: The Role of Business in Supporting Sport and the Role of Sport in Supporting Company Values
We began focusing on corporate sport some time ago. More specifically, we began talking to companies about how participating in events is a great and fun thing to do. <...> Generally, the trend for sports and developing corporate sport emerged relatively recently. At first, it was fairly tricky to build expectations and explain why companies needed it. However, every time various companies or firms send a group to take part in an event, people always come back. <...> The effect of teambuilding and winning medals as a team is plain to see, and not only to shareholders and managers
15.06.2023
SPIEF 2023
Sport in the New Reality: From Competition to Product
If we talk about sporting events for the public, then the interests are rather different. It was important for me that the number of participants of ZaBeg.RF race goes up within the country. The race has four distances – 1, 5, 10, and 21 km. At first, the participants were mainly professionals. This year, for the first time there was not a single free slot left in the whole country. And the most popular distance was 5 km. This shows how people began to engage more, they want to challenge themselves. At the beginning, we had about 30 people participating in the races in the regions, then the number increased to about 300, and now we have thousands of participants
06.06.2019
SPIEF 2019
Key Principles for Establishing Tourist and Recreational Zones
We need to understand that we have a diversified approach to target audiences that this export of services will be directed to. So that they include families, children, students; business tourism as well as cultural, sport and heritage tourism. <…> It is important for us to create such infrastructure and such centre where all target audiences can find a place; and this will result in a self-sustaining and further developing smart model