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.

Anna Shabarova

Anna Shabarova

Vice President for Human Resources and Social Responsibility, Russian Copper Company
Quotes
04.09.2019
EEF 2019
Private Investment in the Social Sphere: New Support Mechanisms
The specialty of our company is finding enterprises in remote areas, including monocities. Monocities could become a wonderful platform for the experiment, because the funds are allocated for them under various state programmes, but maybe it is worth going through an investor, through prosperous businesses in single-industry towns
04.09.2019
EEF 2019
Private Investment in the Social Sphere: New Support Mechanisms
To make social investments more attractive to investors, it is necessary to simplify the bureaucratic mechanism for attracting a government partner to an existing facility
07.06.2019
SPIEF 2019
Public–Private Partnerships for Charity
The government should change the legislation to make it possible to get information about the people who need medications
06.06.2019
SPIEF 2019
Government and Business in the Social Sector: Identifying New Sources of Growth
Platforms could become point of growth; they can unite and consolidate the society around certain aspects or problems. As a business, we are ready to support the brightest of those initiatives
15.02.2019
Russian Investment Forum 2019
The Art of Influence: Investment in Social Communications as a Factor in Sustainable Social Change
Big business should take care of the territory, build sports and fitness facilities, engage in trade, and overall organise it. Following the infrastructure, the consciousness of people living there also changes; the infrastructure consolidates a community with certain tasks
12.09.2018
EEF 2018
Social communication as a driver of socially important change.
We still treat ourselves as a third world country in the 21st century. We don’t love and respect ourselves very much. We look at everything from the outside without noticing our ambassadors
11.09.2018
EEF 2018
Human Capital: Attracting and Retaining It
We’ve set an ambitious task: to form the territory of our presence. We are trying to create logistics centres so that people feel comfortable, so that education, health and sports facilities are within walking distance. Territories are becoming competitive in comparison with large cities. We need to revert to the success story of a small town person