The city of Kotovsk will host forum for single-industry cities

5 September 2017, Tuesday

On November 24 the city of Kotovsk will meet the forum "Single-industry cities. Business Success", which will be for the first time oriented towards Russian municipalities, having the status of a single industry city, and planning the full development of the territory. The next qualifying stage of the National Award "Business Success" will be held within the framework of the forum.

The projects of development of single-industry  cities have obtained the status of priority projects in the recent years - the broad attention of representatives of municipalities to the topic helped in many regions to develop programs, aimed at attracting investments and full socio-economic improvement.  In the end of November the city of Kotovsk, which is the winner of the final of 2016 of the federal stage of the award "Business Success" in the category "The best municipal practice of supporting entrepreneurship and improvement of investment climate", will host the forum "The territory of business – the territory of life: single-industry cities".

Igor Shuvalov, First Deputy of Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the National Award "Business Success", named the entrepreneurs as real heroes of modern times and noted that "No matter how much we tried to allocate federal resources, but the most important thing is - not to interfere with business, to support your initiatives, to give the opportunity to create in peace, to create jobs, to allow people to get education. We are now at such a point of development, when only small and middle-ranking entrepreneurs can develop the country, make it comfortable".

The event will be supported by Vnesheconombank and non-profit organization "Development Fund of single-industry cities", established by Vnesheconombank in 2014. The organization is focused at launching new investment projects in municipalities with the status of a single-industry city, creating jobs in the problem areas and actively attracting investments to single-industry cities from the most complex socio-economic situation, the number of which is about 99 in the territory of our country, according to the List of single-industry municipalities of the RF of July 29, 2014.

The event is expected to be attended by Igor Shuvalov, First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the National Business Success Award. On the final stage of the award contest he named the entrepreneurs as real heroes of modern times and noted that "No matter how much we tried to allocate federal resources, but the most important thing is - not to interfere with business, to support your initiatives, to give the opportunity to create in peace, to create jobs, to allow people to get education. We are now at such a point of development, when only small and middle-ranking entrepreneurs can develop the country, make it comfortable".

For one day, visitors will be free to participate in the master's classes and to get acquainted with the thematic exhibits, as well as to interact with colleagues and receive expert advice from business support professionals. In addition, during the educational sessions, the representatives of municipalities will learn new trends in the development of single-industry municipalities and the improvement of their social infrastructure. In the framework of the forum the best municipal practices in the field of improving the investment climate for SME among single-industry cities will be selected.

The RTS Tender, the leading e-site in Russia and the general partner of the award contest, will present the educational express course  "I am supplier 2017". In addition to the basic theory, and thanks to consultations in the sphere of state procurements entrepreneurs will be able to learn in the interactive form all peculiarities of work as suppliers and to try to enter into contracts at an electronic auction. By results of the express training, each guest of the forum will receive a program certificate as well as training-methodology materials, prepared according to the latest innovations in the procurement area.

A separate round table "Five practical steps to bring goods to foreign markets" has been prepared for those, who plan to expand sales geography and to start production export. The Director for supporting non-major exporters of the Russian Export Center Group - Boris Igoshin, will gradually consider the difficult process of promoting products to external markets: from using tools of state support to attract financing for export projects.

The achievements of the best nominees will be marked in several categories of the "Business Success" competition, including the "Best Youth Project". Categories named after Sergei Vykhodtsev","Best Export Project", "Best Internet Project", "Best Creative Project", "Best Manufacturing Project" and "Best Female Project". In each of the announced nominations the expert board will name the three finalists, who would represent the advantages and features of the project in the final before the jury. Traditionally, a popular vote will also be opened a few days before the start of the forum, with the result that an additional "People's entrepreneur" would be selected on the day of the event.

The contestants-finalists will have the opportunity not only to tell about their business to a wide range of people, including investors, public figures and journalists, but also a chance to win the main symbol of the award contest - the statuette "Golden Jack". Each winner will receive valuable prizes for business development, equivalent to 100 thousand RUB: these are both certificates for business acceleration training and travel to international professional exhibitions and internships, and comprehensive advertising and PR support, and the professional literature from the publishing house "Alpina Publisher".

The award "Business Success" has been in place for seven years throughout Russia, covering 60 regions of our country. From the words of President of "SUPPORTS OF RUSSIA", Alexander Kalinin, "We help tens of thousands of people to be successful, and the leaders of the award  become known not only in Russia but also in the world. Consequently, not only the economic basis of Russia is changing, but also its socio-economic base."

Proactive entrepreneurs from single-industry cities and municipalities, having the status of a single-industry city, can present their project by completing a questionnaire on the site by November 12 inclusive.

The program of the forum – www.bsaward.ru/regions/kotovsk/program

The organizers of the forum are- the All Russia public organization for small and medium sized enterprises, the "SUPPORTS OF RUSSIA", the Agency for strategic initiatives to promote new projects and the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation. The forum in Kotovsk is being held with the support of Vnesheconombank and a non-profit organization "Fund of development of single-industry cities". The general partner - is the electronic platform the RTS tender.

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