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.

Fundamental Scientific Research: The Cornerstone of the Country's Competitiveness

Sirius University of Science and Technology, conference hall 6
Moderator
Lilia Gumerova
Chairman of the Committee on Science, Education and Culture of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation; Chairman, Permanent Commission on Science and Education, Interparliamentary Assembly of Member Nations of the Commonwealth of Independent States
Speakers and experts
Alexander Blagov
Vice President, Kurchatov Institute National Research Centre
Andrey Blinov
Deputy General Director, Russian Science Foundation
Sergey Kabyshev
Chairman of the Committee of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on Science and Higher Education
Maxim Pratusevich
Director, Presidential Physics and Mathematics Lyceum No. 239
Denis Sekirinsky
Deputy Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation
Tatyana Terentyeva
Deputy Director General for Human Resources, State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM
Sergey Chernyshev
Vice President, Russian Academy of Sciences; Scientific Director, Professor N.E. Zhukovsky Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute
Elena Shmeleva
Chairman of the Board, Sirius Federal Territory; Head, Talent and Success Foundation
Participants
Anzhela Asaturova
Director, Federal Scientific Center for Biological Plant Protection; grant recipient, Russian Science Foundation
Irina Ilyina
Director, Russian Research Institute of Economics, Politics and Law in Science and Technology
Boris Korobets
Rector, Far Eastern Federal University
Ksenia Lazarenko
Director of the Laser Communications Department, BUREAU 1440
Yelena Lyapuntsova
Chairperson, Coordinating Council, League of University Professors Interregional Public Organization; Professor of the Department of Innovative Entrepreneurship, N.E. Bauman Moscow State Technical University
Irina Manuylova
Deputy Governor of the Novosibirsk Region
Nikita Marchenkov
Chairman, Coordinating Council for Youth Affairs in the Scientific and Educational Spheres of the Presidential Council of the Russian Federation for Science and Education; Head, Kurchatov Complex for Synchrotron-Neutron Research, National Research Center "Kurchatov Institute"
Andrey Naumov
Head, Troitsk Branch of the P.N. Physical Institute Lebedev of the Russian Academy of Scienceses; Head of the Department of Theoretical Physics, Moscow State Pedagogical University
Marina Khokhlova
Science Director, HyperGraphGroup