Students at a lecture MOSCOW, Jan 25Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko said at a meeting on socio-economic development of the Russian Federation that it is necessary to make the university a place to launch new startups. «Our main task is to make the university a place to launch new startups. We will give everyone the opportunity to develop in this direction. We have polls presidential platform «Russia is a country of opportunities», which show that more than 60% of students would like to start their own business and the vast majority of students believe that to become an entrepreneur, you need appropriate education and skills — this is 83% of respondents, and for the development of entrepreneurship in the country — programs state support, 73% of respondents said so,» Chernyshenko said. According to him, as part of the project, since August 2021, road shows and trainings on entrepreneurial competencies have been held in 19 cities, presentations of models of leading Russian startup studios have been held. “But most importantly, we have prepared for the start of the active phase of the project and in February we will launch a new large-scale grant program for students to create start-ups,” the Deputy Prime Minister added. to receive grants for the creation of startups, the first 15 university startup studios will open, and 150 acceleration programs will be held, Chernyshenko said. acceleration programs, as well as expand the network of university startup studios to 50 and help students launch more than 30,000 startups,» the Deputy Prime Minister said. >Chernyshenko spoke about ways to solve the problem of shortage of IT specialists
