Startup Tour 2016: We look for innovative projects!

On March 30-31 in AlmaU there will be held the large-scale marathon of Skolkovo Foundation. Use a unique opportunity to realize the ideas!

For several years Skolkovo Foundation realizes the project Startup Tour (https://startup-tour.ru/ru), selecting the best innovative projects from Russia and the CIS countries.

This year in Almaty for the second time there will be held the Euroasian stage of Startup Tour organized in cooperation with Almaty Tech Garden with assistance of the Ministry of investments and development of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The event will take place on March 30-31, 2016 in the Almaty Management University (earlier – IAB).

In 2016, the tour will involve 50 experts with great experience in the business. This means that competitors and visitors can expect serious educational and mentoring programs.

Main objective of the project: to give the chance to specialists, to young people and talented entrepreneurs and scientists to realize their ideas!

The Skolkovo Foundation will award winners with invitation cards to Startup Village – the largest in Russia annual startup conference, which will take place on June 2-3, 2016 in the Innovative center "Skolkovo". Winners acquire the right to participate in the competition Startup Village without passing of additional examination, and to become the participant of the program of acceleration of Almaty Tech Garden. For the first time in the role of co-organizer of the Eurasian stage of Startup Tour will act the Fund of infrastructure and educational programs of RUSNANO, which will choose and award the invitation for 1 team from each city for nanoWEEKEND in one of their Nano centers. In addition, one team by the results of nanoWEEKEND will receive one month of internship in the Nano center.

In addition, co-organizer of the event will be the Innovation Cluster Almaty Tech Garden, which is a professional environment for the development of innovations in Kazakhstan and brings together representatives from business, startups, investors, educational and research institutions.

The general partner of the project – Almaty Management University – the oldest business higher educational institution of the country, on account of which education of the first Kazakh entrepreneurs and the first MBA and DBA programs in the Republic of Kazakhstan; entrepreneurial, socially responsible university.

Five key directions provide the competitive program of 2016: biological and medical technologies, biotechnologies in agriculture and industry, industrial technologies and materials, energy and energy efficient technologies, information technologies.

Why to attend this event?

• If you are young scientist or represent a start-up team, we dream to see your project in the competition. Leaving an application for participation in the competition startup projects, you get a real chance to attract investment for the development of: https://startup-tour.ru/ru#competitions
• If you are a student, then our educational program will help you to realize the dreams quicker. You will learn everything about world trends in business and science.

Participation is free – we want to see all.

Registration of participants and detailed program here.

Please note that the submission of applications for the contest ends on March 17, 2016. Applications received after March 17 will not be accepted.

Registration on participation in an educational program of the tour is open until March 30.

Center for development of entrepreneurship and innovations of AlmaU:

Diaz Kozhatayev, mobile phone: + 7 776 232 30 89