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On 25 January 2017, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov had a meeting with the members of the PromAktiv educational module under the Republic’s Talent Pool Project. The meeting was moderated by Advisor to the Chairman of Tatarstan Youth Government for Industry and Commerce Diana Radchenko, who also heads the PromAktiv module. The Minister shared his story of personal success, talked about important leadership skills, and answered questions from module members.

The Republic’s Talent Pool Project is being implemented since 2009, with the annual coverage of the project application campaign of more than 1,500 people.

The Talent Pool is a unique youth project that has established itself as a pipeline of highly efficient public figures, civil servants, and employees of the companies in Tatarstan. In 2017, participants of the Talent Pool Project were divided into four specialised modules, including the PromAktiv module aimed at supporting and developing initiatives of young people employed by enterprises and organisations in the Republic of Tatarstan.

On 25 January 2017, a meeting has held between Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov and Deputy Chairman of Khabarovsk Krai Government Dmitry Volkov, who is also responsible for the integrated development of the city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur. The main purpose of this visit is the exchange of Tatarstan’s best practices in attracting investors, development of industrial sites, and interaction with municipalities.

During the meeting, the participants discussed promising areas of cooperation between the Republic of Tatarstan and the Khabarovsk Krai. Albert Karimov and Dmitry Volkov noted that there is a considerable potential for the development of cooperation between the regions.

The delegation from the Khabarovsk Krai is on a working visit to Tatarstan from January 23 to January 27. In accordance with their programme, they visited IT Park, Technopark Idea, Simulation Training Centre at the Institute of Fundamental Medicine and Biology, and AO Himgrad.

The Tatarstan Regional WorldSkills Competition 2017 to be held on the republic’s grounds from February 1 to February 3 will include a new competence, industrial design. Young professionals will analyse market proposals, make sketches, and print out the 3D-printer models of computer tables. The host venue for this WorldSkills competition in Tatarstan will be the Kazan College of Technology. Today, its laboratory brought together participants of the future competition.

The regional competition of skilled trades will form the backbone of the WorldSkills Tatarstan Team, which will represent the republic on the national level this spring, and then, perhaps, at the world competition. Among the competencies are road workers and young EMERCOM experts, physicians and jewellers, bakers and designers – all those who raises the prestige of working trades today with their high-quality work. There are a total of 79 competencies in the republic’s competition. In Tatarstan, the preparations for each area entered the final straight. It will be recalled that Kazan will be the host venue for the final WorldSkills Competition in 2019.

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