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.
We need to encourage interest in mining and metallurgy as professions. Despite these industries offering high salaries and relatively clean work, they are not very popular due to tough working conditions. And perhaps the salaries are not so high after all. This is another factor we must address together so as to make metallurgy and mining prestigious and interesting once again to the younger generation — Oleg Krestinin, General Director, Management Company "METALLOINVEST".
This is not an issue which is influenced by education alone. We won’t achieve anything if we concentrate solely on education. And we should not stop either at labour productivity or improving the workplace. A comprehensive approach is needed. This includes territorial development, improving social conditions, and focusing on people’s welfare, the environment, and safety. When all these aspects start working in harmony, we will see growth and a change in attitude towards technical engineering professions — Evgeniy Nikitin, Chief Executive Officer, RUSAL.
Our companies <...> have many investment projects. This means we need to attract highly qualified personnel. We have a guaranteed requirement for personnel for a 5–6-year period — Viktor Evtukhov, State Secretary – Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation.
We lack Western specialists and engineers who could competently maintain the equipment we currently have, and build the capabilities that would enable us to develop our production facilities. We can only rely on ourselves and the higher educational institutions we are in partnership with — Oleg Krestinin, General Director, Management Company "METALLOINVEST".
We need to address the issue of attracting and retaining personnel. In part, we should look at ways of doing this through the digital transformation. Just like all large businesses, we have regular salary increases – this is not the main hindrance today when it comes to solving these issues. We are competing with couriers, the retail sector, IT organizations, banks, financial institutions, and so on. Therefore, we must offer not only salaries but also other things to show we care for our employees — Alexander Shevelev, Chief Executive Officer, Severstal.
There is a programme called Cutting-Edge Engineering Schools. We are running it together with major companies such as Sibur, United Aircraft Corporation, Rostec, KAMAZ, and others. Fifty cutting-edge engineering schools have been established, covering a vast array of training areas. We have set out plans to train around 120,000 personnel in the near future, with more than 1,500 training and retraining programmes on offer — Viktor Evtukhov, State Secretary – Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation.
BRICS has a university network, technical colleges, and secondary technical education. We have a global alliance within BRICS which, of course, focuses on these issues. It is absolutely vital today that we discuss and share opinions and experiences. <...> As a collective, BRICS of course possesses vast joint resources — Barend Johannes (Ben) Joubert, Sous-Sherpa of South Africa in BRICS; Chief Director, Regional Organizations, Department of International Relations and Cooperation of South Africa.
Close cooperation between the private sector and educational institutions is crucial in terms of benchmarks, areas of development, and sometimes even new technologies, which would normally take several years to reach educational institutions — Oleg Krestinin, General Director, Management Company "METALLOINVEST".
The Professionalism programme, which was instituted two years ago, plays no small role. It is an excellent programme. Yes, it may only have been running for a short time, but the results can already be seen — Evgeniy Nikitin, Chief Executive Officer, RUSAL.
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.