MOSCOW, December 4 Expocentre pays great attention to supporting young inventors and future entrepreneurs; for this purpose, as part of the congress and exhibition activities, youth zones are being created here to promote innovative ideas and developments, noted General Director of Expocentre JSC Alexey Vyalkin on the opening day of the international scientific and practical forum “Russian Health Week 2023” (RNZ).
The forum opened on Monday, December 4, and will run until December 8 inclusive. «Russian Healthcare Week» is one of the oldest medical forums in Europe in the field of medicine and health care. It addresses key issues in the industry: practical medicine, science and equipment production.
On the opening day of the RNZ, a strategic session “Modern medicine: priorities, personnel, laws was held. Exhibitions are an effective mechanism for applying breakthrough solutions in healthcare.” For practical reasons, it was combined with a meeting of the Committee of the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry on exhibition, fair and congress activities.
The session touched on the most important aspects and problems of the medical industry. These include staff shortages, quotas for targeted training, as well as the role of youth in the development of modern medicine. 
“Our task is to provide youth with a platform where young inventors could not only demonstrate their innovative ideas and developments, but also receive expert feedback, establish business contacts, and attract potential partners. We have experience. In the framework of such large complex events as is “Russian Healthcare Week,” young specialists also get the opportunity to personally see how the industry is developing, what vectors are being laid in this or that sector of the economy, and get acquainted with the latest technologies and equipment,” noted the General Director of Expocentre JSC in his speech at the session. Alexey Vyalkin.
He emphasized that the creation of youth zones at industry exhibitions is “an absolutely mutually beneficial solution.”
«For young people, this is a chance to properly present themselves, and for us, exhibition organizers, this is an excellent way to attract the younger generation, young audiences to solve modern problems, stimulate the innovation process. In addition, this is also an opportunity to make our events more interesting, diverse and resonant,” Vyalkin is convinced.
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The importance of working with young people was emphasized by Vladimir Kononov, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Science and Higher Education, Chairman of the NTI EXPO (Science-Technology-Innovation) organizing committee, who moderated the session. He noted that within the framework of the RNZ there will be a forum “A decade of science and technology in Russia: a vector for medicine”, as well as the third scientific and educational forum “YOUNG MEDICINE”.
The program of Russian Healthcare Week 2023 is very dense and eventful: about 90 major industry events and several large-scale exhibitions. In particular, these are thematic exhibitions «Healthcare», «Healthy Lifestyle», «MedTravelExpo. Sanatoriums. Resorts. Medical Centers». Their main goal is to promote the implementation of national projects “Healthcare” and “Demography”, “Tourism and Hospitality Industry”, “Science and Universities”, as well as the federal project “Development of Export of Medical Services”.
More than a thousand companies from 14 countries directly participate in the exhibitions: Russia (over 50 regions), Belarus, Germany, India, Kazakhstan, China, the Republic of Korea, Cuba, Kuwait, Lebanon, Singapore, Turkey, Thailand and Japan.
China and Cuba will present their national expositions at the forum.
At the Expocentre site, exhibition participants will demonstrate the latest medical equipment, medical products, consumables, means of rehabilitation and prevention, aesthetic medicine, pharmaceuticals and products for a healthy lifestyle, medical and health services, health and treatment technologies in Russia and abroad.