June, 2016 - Skolkovo Community

Russian regions ranked by innovative development
30.06.2016

EdTech website Dnevnik.ru wins at EdTechXEurope conference
Dnevnik.ru, an educational social network made by a resident of the Skolkovo Foundation’s IT cluster, is among the winners of the EdTechXGlobal All Stars Rise 20 awards for education technology....
24.06.2016

Space startup calls on IT whizzes to devise app for monitoring Russia’s deadly forest fires
Young IT specialists will turn their hand to battling the forest fires that have ravaged Russia in recent summers by gathering this weekend for a hackathon aimed at developing technology to monitor their...
24.06.2016

Skolkovo project Surfancy wins MEGA accelerator programme
Surfancy, a project designed by Skolkovo resident SensArt to turn any surface into an interactive touch screen, has been named the winner of an accelerator programme run by MEGA, the chain of giant malls...
17.06.2016

Gazprom Neft to open R&D centre at Skolkovo
Oil producer Gazprom Neft is to open a research and development centre at the Skolkovo innovation centre outside Moscow under an agreement signed Thursday at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum...
16.06.2016

Skoltech signs agreement with German Aerospace Center
The Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) have signed a research cooperation agreement that will allow Skoltech to take part in real space experiments...
15.06.2016

Express stroke test maker takes second place at Asian Entrepreneurship Award
DRD Biotech, a resident company of the Skolkovo Foundation that makes rapid tests for diagnosing strokes and other conditions affecting the brain, won second prize at the Asian Entrepreneurship Award in...
09.06.2016

Two Skolkovo foreigners to receive friendship awards from Russian president
Russian President Vladimir Putin named two key figures at the Skolkovo Foundation among the foreign recipients of friendship awards on Wednesday. Pekka Viljakainen, a Finnish advisor to Skolkovo president...
09.06.2016

Smart homes projects win big at Internet of Things: IT Challenge contest
The Internet of Things: IT Challenge competition reached its grand finale at the Skolkovo innovation centre Friday, with prizes of 5 million rubles ($78,000) awarded to the winners in several categories...
08.06.2016

“Nature already invented a cure for HIV”: how human genome editing could change the world
As the world discusses the ethics of growing human organs in pigs, scientists gathered at the Skolkovo Foundation last week to discuss an equally divisive topic: that of human genome modification. Scientists...
07.06.2016

Skolkovo resident VisionLabs joins forces with Facebook and Google to teach machines to see
VisionLabs, a facial recognition, data analysis and robotics company that is a resident of the Skolkovo Foundation, has created an open-source computer vision platform using funding from Facebook and Google...
06.06.2016