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.

Maria Vasilkova

Maria Vasilkova

Member of the Committee of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federationon on Industry and Trade
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17.06.2022
SPIEF 2022
Transformation of Cooperation Chains: New Opportunities and Prospects
Whereas before 2020 we had these companies involved in import substitution able to compensate for up to 50% of project costs and up to 100% of R&D costs, after 2020 there’s an updated version in place, and the ability to compensate has been significantly reduced. Only up to 50% of R&D can be compensated for. And there’s one more important aspect I would like to point out. We now have a number of support measures in place for the radio-electronic industry. After all, this is one of our country’s key strategic industries; practically everything depends on it. There’s a measure, it’s been in place for a year – we’re talking about radio-electronic techno-parks. And there’s a ratio in the works... 50/50 public and private funding. It would be advisable [to adjust it – Ed],