The Skolkovo Foundation council met in the new Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology ( Skoltech ) campus for the first time on Thursday ahead of the state-of-the-art building’s launch in September. Skoltech will begin the process of moving...
Professor Alexander Kuleshov, president of the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology ( Skoltech ), has been made an officer of France’s Ordre national du Mérite (National Order of Merit). Alexander Kuleshov received the award at a...
Skolkovo resident startup GeoSteering Technologies , the maker of “smart drilling” software for use at oil and gas production facilities, signed an agreement with the government of the Tyumen region at the Sochi 2017 Russian Investment Forum this...
Questions surrounding artificial intelligence and whether or not it constitutes a threat to mankind have dominated the headlines this year. Now the Skolkovo innovation centre is gathering together Russian and international experts in this field to discuss the...
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 Viktor Vekselberg, and Edward Crawley, the American...
Sanctions, food import bans and public sabre-rattling between Russia and the West seemed like nothing more than a bad dream at the opening of the Startup Village, an international event for tech entrepreneurs, at the Skolkovo innovation centre on Thursday....
The Skolkovo Foundation took its ongoing cooperation with Cuba to a new level on Friday with a visit by the island nation’s second-in-command, Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez. Bermudez, first vice president of Cuba’s State Council and Council of Ministers...
A team from the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology ( Skoltech ) won the Russian stage of the Eurobot 2016 amateur robotics competition at the weekend. The team, named reSET, will now compete in the international final of the competition next month...
Two underwater robot projects were among the three winners of the Degree of Freedom competition for unmanned vehicles and driver assistance systems that will now be awarded mini-grants from the Skolkovo Foundation. GNOM's underwater robots are designed...
Edward Crawley, the charismatic U.S. professor who has headed the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) since its founding, on Friday officially handed over his duties as president to his Russian successor, Dr. Alexander Kuleshov. Edward...
The founders of the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) have approved the recommendation of the board of trustees on the appointment of Dr. Alexander Kuleshov as the new president of the institute. On December 22 the founders of Skoltech...