The Skolkovo area development plan designed by French AREP-Ville will be presented to the Russian and French business communities and the press at the Embassy of France at 45 Bolshaya Yakimanka, Moscow, on 8 September at 10 am.
The master plan for Skolkovo, developed by AREP-Ville in association with SETEC engineering company and landscape designer Michel Desvigne, is the first step towards building a city designed to encourage innovations. A university, technopark, research centres and offices of big IT companies will coexist and be mutually integrated in this city. A variety of public areas and elaborate landscaping solutions offer opportunities for retreating into privacy or for socialising. Care for the environment is one aspects of high living standards. To commute within the innovation centre, people will walk, cycle or take electric public transport. About 50% of the power consumed by the city will come from renewable energy sources.
The innovation centre, which will be a forging shop for the new technologies vital for modernisation of the Russian economy, may become another keynote venue for French-Russian partnership in science and business. The two countries have already signed agreements on cooperation between Skolkovo, on the one side, and EADS and ALSTOM, on the other. The meeting at the Embassy of France shows the importance of this project for the two countries and proves that the Skolkovo Foundation management wants the project to be transparent for future city residents, who are welcome to contribute to the innovation centre’s development plans.
Invited to the meeting are the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of France in the Russian Federation Jean de Gliniasty, Skolkovo city manager Viktor Maslakov and AREP representatives.
The press may receive accreditation until 15.00 on 7 September at the Press Service of the Embassy of France. To apply for accreditation, please call 8 (495) 937 15 62/69 or visit the Press Service web site at presse.moscou@diplomatie.gouv.fr.