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.

Evgeniy Nikitin

Evgeniy Nikitin

Chief Executive Officer, RUSAL
Quotes
06.06.2024
SPIEF 2024
Who Will Forge Steel? Providing Enterprises with Qualified Personnel
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
06.06.2024
SPIEF 2024
Who Will Forge Steel? Providing Enterprises with Qualified Personnel
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
06.06.2024
SPIEF 2024
Small Town Development Plans: Mission Possible?
Business is ready to improve infrastructure and invest. [...] But businesses need guarantees on how to return these investments. Budgets are currently insufficient, especially in small towns. [...] Transparent and protected return mechanisms are needed
06.06.2024
SPIEF 2024
Small Town Development Plans: Mission Possible?
All our social projects are based on the quality of life index we developed. [...] We want this index to be developed to assess all small towns
04.06.2021
SPIEF 2021
New Challenges for the Green Economy: Could the Crisis Delay the Inevitable?
How can the state help? Of course, it needs to constructively interact with the global community and experts who promote certain methods for measuring and calculating emissions as well as introducing a legislative framework because, as it was already noted, there are already a lot of products in Russia that meet all environmental standards […] If the product is the best at the moment, it should not be subject to any additional duties or any additional taxes – this would be one of the incentives for enterprises to transition to a green economy. It is crucial to develop transparent mechanisms for calculating emissions in Russia, make laws for them, and introduce methods and quotas. We won’t be able to introduce cross-border regulation without quotas
04.06.2021
SPIEF 2021
New Challenges for the Green Economy: Could the Crisis Delay the Inevitable?
The cross-border carbon regulation that Europe is going to introduce in the near future will naturally affect virtually all Russian export-oriented industries. The most important thing in this regard is that there should be a transparent mechanism based on detailed analytics because, if we take the aluminium industry, when it interacts with the European Commission, which regulates the industry, we still have not seen how this initiative will affect the manufacturing industry in Europe, i.e., our clients. It could be an issue of losses exceeding the expected benefits with these initiatives
06.06.2019
SPIEF 2019
An Innovation Economy: Opportunities for Smart Specialization in the Regions
Innovations are not just a fashionable option for a company today. Innovation and competition: that is the cornerstone that pushes any successful business forward