The final
round of the Innosocium National Social Projects Contest will be held at 18:00
on 27 May. Twenty-five of the 635 projects submitted for the contest were
shortlisted. The contest includes five categories: ‘Territory Development’,
‘Culture: Regional Initiatives’, ‘Women’s Leadership’, ‘Taking Care of
Seniors’, and ‘Youth Entrepreneurship’.
The event will take place in
the format of an online pitch session on the Roscongress-TV and Innosocium YouTube channels
and also on the Facebook accounts of the Roscongress Foundation and the
contest. The authors of the projects that reached the final round, which
include university students from all over Russia, will give short
presentations. Members of the panel of judges led by Federation Council Deputy Speaker
Galina Karelova will then select the winners live. The projects will be judged
based on the originality of the idea, detailed elaboration, and anticipated
social effect.
The winning
students or student groups will receive an award of RUB 500,000 from the
contest’s partners in order to further develop and implement their projects.
«All the
projects that have reached the final round deserve the highest praise. They are
very worthy proposals that feature a clear idea, a well-developed plan, and
realistic indicators. Regardless of the panel’s decision, each of them can
already be called a winner. From their example, we see how numerous students with
their open view of the world are capable of doing things to solve pressing
social issues. Taking part in the contest has given these young people a
tremendous experience and faith in their abilities — in the ability to
implement their plans and ultimately improve life in our country. I believe
that this is the main mission of our contest», said Elena Marinina, Deputy CEO
of the Roscongress Foundation and Director of the Innosocium Foundation.
The Innosocium contest is
being supported by the Russian Ministry of Science and Higher Education. It has
also received support from the Russian Union of Rectors, a national public
organization that unites more than 700 rectors and presidents of universities
in the Russian Federation. The panel of judges includes Raifa Bitkova, an
adviser to the President of the Russian Union of Rectors.
«We deeply share the ideology
of the Innosocium contest, which aims to get young people involved in the
social agenda. Who other than students are able to reimagine the current
reality in a new way and offer original creative solutions to socially
significant problems? The projects that we are seeing in the final round are a
clear confirmation of this», said Victor Sadovnichy, the President of the
Russian Union of Rectors and Rector of Lomonosov Moscow State University.
The contest is being organized
by the Innosocium Foundation, the social platform of the Roscongress
Foundation, and the ‘Art, Science and Sport’ Charitable Foundation. Its
partners include the Federation Council, the ART-OKNO cultural platform, EVRAZ,
Mars, and the Agency for Strategic Initiatives. Its information partners
include MIA MIR, Komsomolskaya Pravda Publishing House, the Social Information
Agency, and Moscow Students.
The goal of the contest is to
draw attention to urgent socially significant problems and ways to solve them,
to identify and encourage talented students to develop and implement social
projects, to develop the skills they need for this, and to disseminate the
effective experience of social design in the student community.
