11 students and alumni of the FinU have become winners of the fifth wave of the Federal Student Startup Competition and will receive one million rubles each to implement their ideas.
The competition is organized by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Russia and the Foundation for Assistance of Innovation as part of the federal project "Platform of University Technological Entrepreneurship". The winners of the fifth wave of the initiative were two thousand students from across the country with projects to create new devices and technologies in various fields – from digital systems and medicine to architecture and design.
"Youth entrepreneurship plays an important role in ensuring technological sovereignty, which President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly talked about. Already, we see that about 70% of the applications supported within the framework of Student Startup are aimed at finding solutions in priority areas for Russia. This year the government has increased the Competition funding to 2 billion roubles – 2 thousand participants will receive grants in the amount of 1 million. We have many examples of how a startup has become a world-renowned company. I am convinced that in the future the business projects of the finalists will also contribute to the economic growth of the country," said Dmitry Chernyshenko, Deputy Prime Minister of Russia, commenting on the Competition results.
The projects of the FinU students are focused on the development of digital technologies and creative industries. Thus, representatives of the Faculty of Higher School of Management Artem Korginov and Daria Skvortsova presented ideas in automation of the AI introduction in business and the creation of a mobile application using digital technology.
Ivan Vasiliev and Kirill Yemelyanov, alumni of the Higher School of Management, won the Competition by presenting to the expert jury the design of a platform for publishing, reading, and selling digital comics and an educational simulator using AI.
Valeria Naumchik, a student of the Faculty of Taxes, Audit and Business Analysis, presented a software module for controlling access to polluted areas. And Veronika Rilyan, an alumnus of the faculty, won with the project of an information portal on tax literacy. Galina Serzhanova, an alumnus of the Lipetsk FinU branch, presented the project of an information portal with gamification elements. The girls received high marks from the jury members for their proposals.
Yulia Korovkina, a student of the Faculty of Economics and Business, won the Competition by presenting a service of personal recommendations of dishes, and Alexander Larin, an alumnus of the Faculty of Economics and Business, was among the best with the idea of an educational marketplace for students.
Yuri Nigoyan, an alumnus of the Faculty of International Economic Relations, became the winner by presenting a service project for foreign language learning and conversation practice based on AI, and Umar Bachaev, an alumnus of the Faculty of Information Technology and Big Data Analysis, offered a service that allows evaluating the success of product launches on marketplaces.
Grant agreements with the winners of the Competition will be signed in September this year.
The federal project "University Technology Entrepreneurship Platform" is being implemented since 2022, it is aimed at unleashing the entrepreneurial potential of young people and creating a comprehensive ecosystem of technological entrepreneurship based on Russian universities.
