The Skolkovo Technopark welcomed Skolkovo Robotics, the main robot technology event in Eastern Europe. Robots & AI is an event that discusses the pertinent issues in the field of robotics and artificial intelligence. The event was attended by more...
The summer came to Skolkovo some two weeks early. The educational picnic, entitled “Summer in Skolkovo” took place in the park of the Innovation Town, a strip of greenery that separates the largest technopark in Eastern Europe from the grounds of...
The Skolkovo Innovation Center welcomed the intermediate leg of the Electric Marathon Race, the first stage of the Peace Rally 2019, an international automobile race. For the third year in a row, the Peace Rally opens the international sports program at SPIEF...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
The Skolkovo innovation centre has launched a Telegram channel listing job vacancies at resident tech startups fostered by the Skolkovo Foundation, as well as jobs at the foundation’s partner industrial companies and at the foundation itself. The channel...
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...
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has tasked his government with creating infrastructure for driverless transport in Russia, bringing the country a step closer to the appearance of autonomous vehicles on its roads and motorways. Volgabus and KB Avrora's...
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...
People working at the Skolkovo innovation city outside Moscow can now get a free lift to and from work and get to know their colleagues at the same time, thanks to an app designed by resident startup DaDaEdu , whose name translates as “Yes yes, I’m...
“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 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 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...
Improvements in this version of Startup Village: Record crowds, new setting, creative catering. Like the leading smartphone apps, Startup Village is constantly evolving. The third edition of Russia and Eastern Europe’s biggest startup event is no...
The Skolkovo Foundation began accepting applications Monday for the pitch sessions at Startup Village, Eastern Europe’s biggest innovations conference, at the Innovation Center on June 2-3. Last year's Startup Village attracted around 10,000...