Representatives of the German group of companies “Phoenix contact” and the Skolkovo Foundation laid the first stone of the partner center on the territory of the innovation center. By 2021, a regional center for development and industry competencies...
The world map of the Enhel group of companies charging infrastructure, consisting of 60 thousand stations, has just been increased with a new bright connection point. On October 9that the Skolkovo Innovation Center, with the latest fast charging system, using...
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...
One year after it moved into its state-of-the-art premises inside the Skolkovo innovation city, the Skolkovo International Gymnasium welcomed returning students for the start of the new school year on September 1, along with 222 new pupils. The growing three...
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...
The Skolkovo innovation centre is gearing up to host the third annual open-air Skolkovo Jazz Science festival this weekend, starring jazz musicians from all over the world and headlined by the legendary Russian saxophonist Igor Butman. The Skolkovo Jazz...
The annual Skolkovo Startup Village kicked off with two signing ceremonies and various jokes about the chilly weather on Thursday as startups, investors and major tech figures from all around the world gathered at the Skolkovo innovation city for Eastern Europe’s...
As Moscow prepares to host up to one million football fans for the upcoming FIFA World Cup , one Skolkovo resident startup is set to offer fans and Muscovites alike a new form of transport convenient for covering the so-called last mile: kick scooters for rent...
Members of the Skolkovo Foundation council discussed plans for the second stage of the giant Skolkovo Technopark at their quarterly meeting on Thursday. The first stage of the Technopark was opened in January 2017, having been funded by the foundation. The...
How does a country produce new generations of engineers equipped with the skills that are in demand in the real world once they graduate from university? Nearly two decades ago, a group of engineering schools set about tackling the widening gap between engineering...
2017 has been another packed year for the Skolkovo innovation city. The last year saw the Skolkovo Foundation’s total number of resident startups reach about 1,800, with the first of them moving into the newly finished Skolkovo Technopark at the beginning...
Russia’s state banking giant Sberbank opened the country’s biggest data-processing centre at the Skolkovo innovation centre over the weekend. The Sberbank data-processing centre at Skolkovo is the biggest in Russia and one of the biggest in...
While recycling, a rejection of plastic bags and other eco-friendly initiatives are now a way of life in many European countries, Russia – the biggest country in the world – lags woefully behind in this area. This year was declared the Year of Ecology...
Ordinary people have an unprecedented opportunity to make their voices heard concerning the development of their place of residence, whether it be a sprawling metropolis or a remote village, and should take every opportunity to use that voice, visitors to the...
The Skolkovo International Gymnasium began the new school year on Friday in a brand new purpose-built building with more than twice as many pupils as last year. Children line up with flowers to give their teacher, as is traditional in Russia, outside...
For most of the year, the typical sounds heard at the Skolkovo innovation city are those of distant hammering, as construction work on futuristic new buildings continues, or the whirring of a drone, as tech entrepreneurs experiment with their products. But...
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, at whose initiative the Skolkovo innovation city outside Moscow was founded in 2010, praised the project’s evolution at a meeting of the Skolkovo Foundation’s board of trustees on Wednesday. “I’d...
Samocat Sharing , a resident startup of the Skolkovo Foundation’s energy-efficient technologies cluster, is expanding its kick scooter sharing scheme to the Finnish city of Espoo. Sergei Pisarenko, cofounder of Samocat Sharing, rides a scooter around...
“Wisdom gotten from age is better than the shell of a tortoise,” goes the Japanese proverb, the rough equivalent of “experience is the mother of wisdom.” Lack of experience can be a problem for many startups, no matter how innovative...
The Skolkovo innovation city saw the launch of its first car sharing scheme on Tuesday with the unveiling of a BelkaCar parking point. L-R: Ekaterina Makarova, Maxim Sheifel and Loriana Sardar pose in front of the first three BelkaCars to appear at the...
The Skolkovo innovation centre graduated to the status of a true city on Tuesday with the arrival of its first residents, who received the keys to their brand new homes at a celebratory housewarming event. Two of Skolkovo's youngest new residents...
The first residents preparing to move in to the Skolkovo innovation city’s brand new housing met with Skolkovo Foundation president Victor Vekselberg on Thursday to discuss their future community. Marina Stepanova, the first person to sign a rental...
The Skolkovo innovation centre is usually dominated by robots, medical inventions, new IT solutions and other cutting edge technologies, but on August 27, the focus will be emphatically on the arts over science, as the fledgling city hosts the very first Skolkovo...
The Skolkovo Innovation Center is often praised for the rate at which it is sprouting out of the ground on a patch of land just west of Moscow. Just a few years into the project, hundreds of resident companies are already here, as is the Skoltech university...
Exploring the possibility of building a Skolkovo-style tech park in Cuba, a government delegation from the island visited Moscow this week seeking to create the optimal engine of innovation. The Cuban delegation. Photo: sk.ru It was the third Cuban...