World of New Opportunities
The World of New Opportunities, a charity programme, seeks to create propitious conditions and opportunities for sustainable development across the Company ’s footprint.
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support and promote public initiatives;
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develop social partnerships;
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promote new social technologies;
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foster social competencies among local communities.
The programme covers the Krasnoyarsk Territory (Norilsk,Taimyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky Municipal District) and the Murmansk Region (Monchegorsk and the Pechengsky District).
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partnership — interaction among the Company, authorities and local community in solving social issues of the regions;
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development — social investments in the regional development;
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innovations — contribution to the development of human capital in the regions.
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focus on the local context — supporting projects and initiatives aimed at the social and economic development of the regions where the Company operates;
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social partnership and public activity — supporting and promoting technology for inter-industry collaborations and social partnerships in the local community;
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competitive approach — leveraging competitive bidding procedures in allocating charitable funds to back the best organisations, ideas and project teams;
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openness, transparency and accountability — being open for dialogue and cooperation with all stakeholders, ensuring visibility of decision-making processes, reporting on the use of donations;
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efficiency — assessing programmes and projects by how useful they are in solving social issues and creating more favourable social and economic environment across the Company’s footprint.
Goal: to engage active citizens and business community in addressing social issues of the local communities through business projects.
Social entrepreneurship is a new format of social investments enjoying active development both in Russia and globally. Social entrepreneurship offers multiple benefits, including the return of funds allocated for solving social issues in the regions. Also, the new format allows to attract small and medium businesses to tackle social issues.
Social Entrepreneurship Course
The course includes theory of social entrepreneurship, business planning, practical skills in drafting organisational and financial plans, investment analysis, and motivational meetings with successful social entrepreneurs, businessmen and potential investors.
Practical entrepreneurial skills are taught by dedicated mentors. The Institute of Mentoring is a community of seasoned entrepreneurs with a track record of success stories wishing to share their experience and provide consulting services to burgeoning entrepreneurs. The would-be entrepreneurs are also trained in the best ways to organise their operations and specific training.
The course deliverables come in the form of a business plan for implementing a social entrepreneurial project.
Investment Session
At the investment session, the best projects developed by the participants of the Social Entrepreneurship course are presented to the public. The Expert Council decides on supporting projects by extending two-year interest-free loans for business development.
The session is attended by the representatives of commercial banks, investment and venture funds, and private investors. For them, this is an opportunity to spot innovation and high-quality projects for investment purposes.
Social entrepreneur clubs
A social entrepreneur club is a place for informal meetings of NPOs involved in entrepreneurship, alongside social entrepreneurs and social start-up participants. The club aims at developing social entrepreneurship, enhancing professional competencies of social entrepreneurs, promoting technologies and practices to tackle local social issues through business projects.
Goal: to facilitate the implementation of advanced technologies, foster R&D potential and encourage innovation in engineering.
FabLab, R&D creativity laboratories
FabLab is a public space where everyone can bring their ideas to life using equipment and professional software for digital manufacturing. With the diverse capabilities of available equipment, FabLab makes a perfect spot to launch innovative commercial projects.
The cutting-edge equipment of FabLab’s R&D creative laboratory supports a wide range of activities such as 3D modelling, prototyping and digital manufacturing. It is a place where anyone can give life to their creative and technical ideas, create a pilot sample or even start a new business.
Arctic.PRO R&D marathon
Arctic.PRO is an R&D marathon aiming to encourage R&D creativity and thirst for knowledge in children and youth, and to nurture engineering innovation.
The marathon is a
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an online quiz testing the ability to solve engineering problems, quick thinking and understanding of physical and chemical phenomena;
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Polar Technodrome, a competition celebrating the best ideas that could be developed into personal inventions, and a role play followed by abilities assessment;
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an exciting trip to the world of science, technology and creative work with the R&D Winter School featuring meetups with gifted young scientists, workshops and master classes, educational trips and science shows.
Arctic Wave festival of R&D discoveries
This city event aims to promote R&D among young people, support school students in their engineering creativity and innovative thinking, and showcase the latest scientific achievements. Over 20 interactive sites host science battles and intellectual team games, quests and contests, experiments and tests, lectures by young scientists and educational R&D shows.
School of Urban Competencies
This project focuses on social competences and is designed for schoolchildren as the next generation of citizens. By participating in the classes, Our City festival, and Field Academy for Project Management summer school, students make their first steps towards financial awareness and learn things about information security and social projects. There are also advanced training courses available for school teachers. The most active children can join the volunteer team. The project is co-implemented with Alexei Kudrin’s Committee of Civil Initiatives.