Green technologies are where it’s at these days, especially given the looming and ever present threat of the climate crisis, which has not gone away in spite of Covid-19 dominating the news headlines. Most of the world’s nations signed the Paris...
“Skolkovo is one of the innovation centers, but let’s speak honestly: it is now the leading innovation center and probably, in terms of competency and capabilities, the most powerful center in the country.” This assessment was made during...
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, humanity finds itself in a unique situation that it could not have imagined itself being in several months ago. “We are at the survival stage,” stated the deputy chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation...
Robots for diagnostics and surface sanitation, a chat-bot integrated into the MOH’s online portal for providing public consulting support during the pandemic, contactless terminal for body temperature measurement, pass control management platform to be...
Skolkovo Technopark launched the first acceleration program for foreign high-tech companies in 2020. About 25 startups from Uzbekistan take part in it. Their interests range from medicine and agriculture to IT, energy efficiency and industrial technology. Yuri...
One of Russia's largest high tech companies is becoming a partner of Skolkovo Foundation. This is a landmark event for the Skolkovo project, Skolkovo Foundation's BoD Chairman Viktor Vekselberg noted Participants in the BoD meeting held on December...
Applications for this year as part of Skolkovo Foundation's competition to identify the best projects for end-to-end digital technology are now closed. Several dozens of applications were submitted. What makes the competition remarkable is not only its...
In the innovation city, as part of the “Open Innovations” forum, a presentation of the Center for Innovation and the Internet of Things in Healthcare was held. Minister of Health of the Russian Federation Veronika Skvortsova, who participated...
In October 2018, at the “Open Innovations” forum, the head of the Russian government, Dmitry Medvedev, was driven around by a “Yandex” unmanned vehicle through the territory of the Skolkovo innovation center. A year later, speaking at...
By the beginning of the official opening of the VII Open Innovations Forum, over 11 thousand people from more than 90 countries had registered to take part. This sets a new record for this major event, which traditionally kicks off the new innovations year...
On 14th of October, Saudi Arabian Oil Company’s President & CEO Amin H. Nasser and Angara Services ’ CEO Ilya Rodin signed a memorandum of understanding for collaboration. Saudi Aramco President & CEO Amin H. Nasser attended the Saudi...
Zhai Lixin, head of Zhongguancun, China's largest and oldest national science and technology park, visited the Skolkovo Innovation Center. Zhongguancun and Skolkovo have been cooperating since 2012, when a cooperation agreement was first signed. The...
It will only take you 17 minutes to travel to the Innovation City from downtown Moscow now that Innovatsionnyi Tsentr (Innovation Center) transport hub has been opened. The opening ceremony took place in two days before the opening of Startup Village...
The impressive list of Latin American countries with which the Skolkovo Foundation has established productive cooperation (including Ecuador , Argentina , Chile , Cuba , Mexico , Brazil and others) will soon have Colombia added to it. During the visit to Skolkovo...
This provision has been included into the Memorandum of Understanding, signed by Russian companies ‘Sputniks’ and ‘Glavcosmos Launch Services’ and the Tunisian company Telnet Holding. The partners agreed to cooperate in designing small...
The fourth annual CyberDay conference devoted to cybersecurity got underway at the Skolkovo Technopark on Friday, the 30 th anniversary of the establishment of Computer Security Day. Skolkovo Foundation chairman Arkady Dvorkovich speaking at the opening...
An innovations cluster is to be established in Moscow, with the president of the Skolkovo Foundation named as one of its curators under a decree signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday. The cluster will coordinate interaction between industry...
The Skolkovo Foundation signed an agreement with Singapore’s Action Community for Entrepreneurship (ACE) and the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) on Wednesday during the ASEAN-Russian summit in Singapore. Alexander Khanin (left), CEO of Skolkovo...
Inequality in society and how technology can both exacerbate and reduce it was the dominant theme of the plenary session of the Open Innovations forum at the Skolkovo innovation city on Tuesday. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev outlined the plan for Russia's...
The Skolkovo Foundation signed a memorandum of understanding with Japan’s IoT Acceleration Consortium on the eve of the Eastern Economic Forum , following talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe in Russia’s...
Skolkovo Foundation president Victor Vekselberg and co-chairman of the foundation council Arkady Dvorkovich were appointed Monday to a government commission chaired by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev devoted to modernizing the economy and Russia’s innovative...
Russian healthcare marked a major milestone on Wednesday with the opening of the branch of a top Israeli hospital at the Skolkovo innovation centre, meaning Russians can now access Israeli healthcare without having to leave the country. Prime Minister...
The Skolkovo innovation city marked Knowledge Day, as September 1 is celebrated across Russia as the start of the new academic year, with a visit by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, who toured the brand new campus of the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology...
Few countries in the world can benefit from telemedicine and the remote diagnosis and monitoring services it offers as much as Russia, with its enormous territory and multitude of sparsely populated and hard to reach areas. Yet currently, digital healthcare...
The Skolkovo Foundation signed a cooperation agreement on Wednesday with Luxinnovation, the national agency for innovation and research of Luxembourg. Skolkovo's Yury Saprykin (left) and Luxinnovation's Ian Cresswell sign the agreement in Moscow...