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The Labour Productivity project has been amended in 2021 in regard to selection criteria for enterprises to participate in, support measures, participation formats, etc.

The criteria for selecting companies have become softer. From 2021 onwards, companies with revenues of RUB 400 million and more can take part in the project (the upper revenue threshold was removed), as well as companies with foreign capital participation of up to 50% (the permissible percentage was increased). However, the most serious change was the inclusion of trade in the list of priority sectors, which expands the republic’s target group by hundreds of businesses.

The envisaged formats of participation - with the support from the Federal Competence Centre, with the support from the Regional Competence Centre - were supplemented by the extended format of FCC support, which differs by creation of up to 2 sample streams and development of solutions in several functional areas.

The list of systemic support measures has been expanded by the rationalisation movement from WorldSkills Russia, which involves setting up corporate rationalisation and advance training centres to train company employees and participate in the Rationalisation and Productivity Cup.

Based on the dynamic growth in the number of participants of the national project in Tatarstan - at the moment, RCC exceeded the 2021 plan for involvement of enterprises by 110% - it can be concluded that innovations have an extremely positive impact on the implementation of the national project in the Republic.

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov met today with Hans-Joachim Frey, Artistic Director of the Talent and Success Foundation.

The meeting took place at the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan.

The parties discussed ways of interaction in various areas, including trade and economic, scientific and technical, industrial, educational, and cultural spheres.

Cooperation between Tatarstan and Germany has a long history and is one of the priority areas of Tatarstan’s foreign economic activities, said Albert Karimov.

In recent years, relations between Tatarstan and Germany have been successfully developing in such areas as petrochemicals, energy, mechanical engineering, medicine and others.

“Tatarstan is actively developing interregional cooperation with the Federal Republic of Germany. We have formed strong cooperative ties with such federal states as Saxony, Thuringia, and Bavaria,” he added.

Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov met this morning with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg to the Russian Federation Georges Faber.

The meeting took place at the working office of Rustam Minnikhanov in the Kazan Kremlin.

The parties focused on further development of cooperation and strengthening the already achieved relations based on mutually beneficial partnership.

Rustam Minnikhanov also thanked the Luxembourg Embassy in Russia for the opportunity to implement many joint projects.

The meeting was attended by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov and Head of the Tatarstan Investment Development Agency Talia Minullina.

For more than a year now, Russia has been living and working under pandemic conditions. We have overcome not only several waves of a new viral contagion. We have overcome a psychosis that threatened to engulf the whole of society, paralysing the will of the people. The threat of hiding in their flats for the sake of self-preservation no longer frightens citizens.

The actions of the President and the Government have helped the economy to stay afloat. The labour market is recovering; businesses are working at full capacity again. But the return of confidence must not turn into complacency. The virus is changing its shape and once again trying to do us harm.

Russian biologists have developed and are producing vaccines that are of real aid to people, helping them avoid or mitigate the severity of the disease. Vaccinations help build a collective immunity, which should reduce the harmful effects of the virus. But the success of the fight against it is only possible with our joint efforts. Russian medical institutions now offer the opportunity to be vaccinated free of charge - an opportunity denied to citizens in many other countries.

Today it is our duty to help ourselves and our country. We must not listen to back alley gossips, but to medical experts, scientists, who speak the language of facts: the salvation from the virus is mass vaccination, and today we have a lower vaccination rate than in other countries.

Get vaccinated so you can work safely.

Tatarstan is capable of building up oil production and refining by using new technologies. Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov made the statement at the Tatarstan’s oil summit in Almetyevsk today.

Rustam Minnikhanov said that thanks to the technologies, Tatarstan managed not only to maintain oil production, but also to increase it, together with small oil companies, to 30 million tonnes per year.

In recent years, production had to be temporarily reduced due to OPEC+ decisions.

He reminded that there used to be only one primary oil processing facility designed for 7 million tonnes (now the TAIF-NK refinery). In recent years, the TANECO Complex has built additional oil refining facilities rated at 15-16 million tonnes.

“Practically in the near future, we may not have any oil for sale at all, we will refine it completely,” suggested the Tatarstan President.

According to him, the oil sector is of great importance both for providing revenues to the budget and for creating jobs. “Each small oil company is bigger in essence than even a large factory. That is why we have a special attitude to crude oil, petrochemicals, oil refining,” Rustam Minnikhanov said.

Developments within the global climate agenda were presented today by Tatneft at an exhibition of innovations as part of the oil summit of Tatarstan (Almetyevsk).

Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov is taking part in the oil summit. He studied innovative ideas of Tatneft and partner companies.

For example, Rustam Minnikhanov was shown a recycling kiosk for plastic bottles. Tatneft installs such kiosks at its filling stations.

The stand of Tatneft shows the technology of CO2 injection into the reservoir to enhance oil recovery. Two other innovations that reduce the carbon footprint are also associated with the reservoir pressure maintenance (RPM) system. One project provides for reconstruction of the entire chain, including replacement of metal-plastic water pipelines with fibreglass pipelines and replacement of German pumping units with more efficient ones produced by Spetstekhnika Almetyevsk. As a result, specific power consumption is expected to decrease 2.3 times and the efficiency factor will increase to 47%.

Director General of TANECO Ilshat Salakhov spoke about Tatneft’s transition to circular economy through Responsible Consumption and Production (SDG 12). Renewable energy projects were also presented for Affordable and Clean Energy (SDG 7).

The 2nd Hackathon Oil Tech Challenge 2021 international petroleum forum will take place in Almetyevsk (Tatarstan) from July 8 to 15.

The HOT Challenge is a unique educational platform, the aim of which is the identification and professional development of progressive teams of talented young people in order to solve urgent tasks facing the Russian fuel and energy sector.

The key theme of this year’s forum will be sustainable development. For teams to solve project tasks at the hackathon, the following UN sustainable development goals have been identified: Affordable and Clean Energy, Responsible Consumption and Production, Climate Action, and Life on Land. Special attention, as noted, will be paid to the development of leadership skills, effective communication, and result-oriented performance.

The forum will bring together 250 students, young professionals, and teachers from Russia and the CIS. For their individual achievements, the most active participants in HOT Challenge 2021 will receive cash prizes and the opportunity to enter the talent pool of fuel and energy companies, to undertake practical training in leading petroleum companies in Russia and abroad on the recommendation from the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation.

The forum is organised by the Russian Ministry of Energy, Tatneft, and the Youth Council of Petroleum Industry under the Russian Ministry of Energy.

Today, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov had a meeting with Shavkat Umurzakov, Chairman of the Board of Uzavtosanoat. The meeting was also attended by Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan German Lerner.

The meeting was held in Rustam Minnikhanov’s office in the House of Tatarstan Government.

The parties discussed issues of developing relations in a number of areas, including vehicle manufacturing. It should be reminded that KAMAZ and Uzavtosanoat are implementing joint projects on production of trucks in the territory of Uzbekistan.

The 30th anniversary international food exhibition WorldFood Moscow 2021 will take place on September 21-24 in Moscow at the Crocus Expo Exhibition Centre.

The WorldFood Moscow is Russia’s largest autumn food exhibition, which contributes to saturating the Russian food market with a wide range of affordable and high-quality products. The WorldFood Moscow 2020 has become the industry’s first major event after the active phase of the pandemic.

Among the exhibitors are major Russian and foreign food manufacturers and suppliers. The exhibition traditionally features products from manufacturers and suppliers in 15 food categories. Of the foreign exhibitors in 2020, companies from Azerbaijan, China, France, Greece, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Moldova, Turkey, and Uzbekistan were represented.

In 2020, a total of 377 companies from 10 countries and 32 regions of Russia participated as exhibitors and 12,799 experts from 83 regions of Russia and 49 countries visited the exhibition.

The WorldFood Moscow exhibition site brings together all the leaders of the food retail industry: top executives of the Ashan, Pyaterochka, Perekrestok, Vkussvil, Lenta, Magnit, Metro C&C and Selgros chains. More than 1,000 exhibitors and 20,000 visitors, more than 40 regional and 15 national displays are expected in 2021.

Kazan Digital Week 2021 International Forum will take place on September 21 to 24, 2021. The event, intended for developers and users of digital intelligent technologies, systems, services, and products, will be held in a mixed format (offline + online) at the Kazan Expo International Exhibition Centre, which is equipped with exhibition halls, session rooms, open-air demonstration areas, comfortable transport and recreational infrastructure.

The main thematic areas of KDW 2021 are: Intelligent Transport Systems; Situation Centres; Digital Industry 4.0; Cybersecurity of the New Era; Fintech Ecosystem; Innovations Integrated into Business; Digital Technologies in Education; Digital Technologies in Culture; Digital Technologies in Healthcare and Medicine; Digital Technologies in Agriculture.  

All necessary information about the event, registration, online and offline participation, publication of materials, payment terms of KDW 2021, available archive materials of KDW 2020 are presented on the kazandigitalweek.com.

Articles are accepted in strict accordance with the thematic areas. All articles are tested for anti-plagiarism and have double-blind peer review. After selection by the expert group, the articles will be published in journals included in the international abstract database Scopus and conference proceedings.