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Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov had a meeting today with representatives of the Udmurt Republic via video conferencing. During the meeting, the sides discussed existing formats of interaction aimed at developing bilateral trade and economic cooperation, as well as key joint projects and initiatives.

The meeting was attended by Permanent Representative of the Head  of the Udmurt Republic to the Russian President Mikhail Khomich, First Deputy Prime Minister of the Udmurt Republic Konstantin Suntsov, Minister of Industry and Trade of the Udmurt Republic Victor Lashkarev, Deputy Head of the Tatarstan Investment Development Agency Marina Yepifantseva, Deputy Director General of the Tatarstan State Order Agency Anton Valeryevich and Chairman of the Board of the Tatarstan Mechanical Engineering Cluster Sergey Mayorov.

Also during the event, representatives of leading companies from Udmurtia (IzhSpetsKomplekt, PAKKA, Novy Dom, PromTekhKomplekt, and Axion) and Tatarstan (Danex, TESK) presented their products for further cooperation.

The videoconference participants expressed their hope that the event would open a series of face-to-face meetings to further develop trade and economic relations between Tatarstan and Udmurtia.

For over 20 years, the city of Kazan is hosting the Tatarstan International Forum for Energy Efficiency & Ecology (TEF) comprising the business programme and the 21st International Specialised Exhibition “Energy. Resource Saving”.

TEF’2020 has received high recognition from expert community, annually confirming its high status, being a demonstration platform for fruitful business meetings, company presentations, discussions with government officials and industry partners of topical issues related to energy efficiency and innovative methods of energy conservation.

The Forum is attended by top officials of the Republic, representatives of federal and regional authorities, and distinguished guests from the Russian Federation and foreign countries.

The Forum will discuss urgent issues in the field of energy efficiency, including developments in the gas fuel market, the use of alternative energy sources, digitalisation in the energy sector, and will showcase present-day energy efficient technologies and innovative energy saving practices.

On the Forum’s official website, you can register and read the current Programme with key speakers, short abstracts, and key discussion points.

Today, the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan hosted a meeting of the Organising Committee of the 9th Our Time - Beznen Zaman Republic’s Annual Open TV Festival of Working Youth Creativity chaired by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov. The meeting was attended by heads of Tatarstan municipalities in the videoconferencing format. President Rustam Minnikhanov has charged the 8th Our Time - Beznen Zaman Festival to be held at a proper level, Albert Karimov said: “On the eve of the Festival, the Cabinet of Ministers issued a decree, a budget was agreed upon and deadlines and venues for zonal qualifying rounds were determined”.

Specifically, this year’s zonal rounds will take place as follows: October 8-9, Almetyevsk; October 15-16, Nizhnekamsk; October 22-23, Kazan; October 29-30, Zelenodolsk. The second stage will take place on November 12-13 in the Volga Region Academy of Sports and Tourism, where the Super Final will be held. Today it was also decided that a gala concert will be held on November 15 at the Pyramid Entertainment Centre, where the Grand Prix winning team will be announced and the traditional Tatarstan President Challenge Cup will be awarded.

The Organising Committee also reported that the current festival will be traditionally held with the support from the Tatarstan President and under the auspices of the Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO. This season will be dedicated to the Year of Native Languages and National Unity.

Today, Kazancompressormash hosted a meeting of the temporary working group for considering cooperation issues between Gazprom and Tatarstan in terms of import substitution and technology development. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov met with Head of Department 335 of Gazprom Viktor Sharokhin.

The meeting was attended by representatives of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan, leading experts of Gazprom and heads of such industrial enterprises in Tatarstan as Kazancompressormash, KAMAZ Industrial Components, Tasma, Compressor, KMPA, and others.

The participants to the meeting discussed the experience of interaction between enterprises in the region and Gazprom. Reports of enterprises were also heard with presentations of products and services which can be used in the interests of Gazprom.

Gazprom is an important strategic partner for Tatarstan, and many enterprises are interested in building mutually beneficial business relations with it. At present, more than 110 republic’s enterprises have experience in supplies for needs of Gazprom.

In conclusion, Albert Karimov underlined that the Tatarstan Government pays great attention to developing the cooperation between republic’s enterprises and major Russian and foreign companies. 

The Russian Export Centre is announcing the launch of the “Exporter of the Year” nationwide contest in 2021 and is starting accepting applications.

Participation in the contest is free. Applications can be submitted by large companies, small and midsize businesses, and self-employed individuals. The number of participants in the Exporter of the Year contest grows every year: while about 50 exporters attended it in 2018, there were over 1700 participants in 2020.

The Award winners will be determined in two stages. The winners of the first stage - at the level of each federal district - will be announced from August to September. Then, the winners of the federal contest will be selected from the first-place winners at the district level. The award ceremony for federal stage winners will take place in November at the Made in Russia International Export Forum with the participation of top government officials.

The contest is supported by VEB.RF, the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia, the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia, the Ministry of Agriculture of Russia, and the Ministry of Communications of Russia.

The Exporter of the Year Award was established by the Russian Government to encourage organisations and individual entrepreneurs who have achieved exceptional results in export activities. The Award is a symbol of state recognition of exporters’ merits in strengthening the national economy and promoting Russian competitive products in foreign markets.

As part of the Labour Productivity national project, the Tatarstan Regional Competence Centre (RCC), with the support from the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan has successfully implemented a pilot project on the improvement of labour productivity at OOO Egida+.

Project office has been established in Egida+ with the responsibility to initiate new projects, according to the plan of involvement of production and information flows/processes into the Productivity Improvement Programme for 3 years.

The project to improve labour productivity in the company has achieved its objectives in full. Successful implementation of the project has resulted in a 20% reduction in process lead time and a 15% reduction in in-process inventory, while a 30% increase in in-process productivity has been achieved.

The Tatarstan’s Regional Competence Centre in the Field of Labour Productivity (RCC) was established on the basis of the Centre for Energy-Saving Technologies of Tatarstan under the Tatarstan Cabinet of Ministers and is the performer of the “Targeted Support for Increasing Labour Productivity at Enterprises” regional project.

The RCC’s mission is to improve the quality of goods and services and to increase the competitiveness of the Russian economy through creating a culture of high productivity and efficiency among the employees of republic’s organisations.

The integrated bypass system engineered as a company’s experimental development is capable of providing a one-time, unlimited range of work for maintenance, overhaul, reconstruction, and emergency restoration of electrical installations.

At this stage, local performance of almost any type of live-line work under voltage of 0.4 kV to 10 kV is available in the company. However, a goal has been set before the company’s team to carry out comprehensive works without shutting down consumers on the overhead line section.

Until recently, such solutions had been used abroad, particularly in China, Korea, and Japan. As a result of the extensive work done by the Tatarstan Grid Company team, a technical solution, which differs from foreign analogues in its versatility and independence from vehicles, was also implemented in Tatarstan.

The system is assembled in two containers (main and auxiliary ones), equipped with devices for winding and unwinding cables, a lighting system, video surveillance, and autonomous power supply. The equipment includes vacuum breakers, flexible cables, quick-connect couplings and auxiliary equipment, which can be transported on any type of trucks and placed on site during operations.

The technology, innovative for the Russian power grid sector, increases the level of personnel qualification and the culture of work production, because it uses tools developed on the basis of scientific, design, and technology R&D activities.

On April 20, from 10:30 to 14:00, METRO Cash & Carry will hold a conference for local suppliers of Tatarstan.

The conference will consist of two parts. The first part is a presentation of METRO Cash & Carry’s current strategy and priorities as well as the company’s main ways of cooperation with producers; the second part is a purchasing session.

SME Corporation, METRO’s partner, will also address the conference participants. A representative of SME Corporation will talk about the measures being implemented to support small and midsize businesses.

In order to participate in the purchasing session, an online registration is required at https://www.metro-cc.ru/sotrudnichestvo/postavschikam/konferencii/form-konf.

Please note that the registration is open until 18:00 on April 16, 2021. Its format is an individual communication with a representative of the purchasing department.

Participation in the conference is free of charge. Its venue is: Mirage Hotel, 5 Moskovskaya St., Kazan.

The Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade has published, for the first time, official statistics on the development of industrial parks and technoparks in Russia. In 2020, Tatarstan took 2nd place among 85 constituent entities of the Russian Federation, behind only the Moscow Oblast. In total, there are 23 industrial parks and 4 technoparks in the republic.

Tatarstan pays significant attention to the development of industrial parks. Total investment in park infrastructure construction exceeds RUB 10 billion. The aggregate annual revenues of park residents are over RUB 150 billion. The industrial parks have created 21,000 new jobs. The most successful industrial parks are Alabuga, Himgrad, and KIP Master.

In 2020, a total of 29 new resident units were attracted to Tatarstan’s industrial parks. These included a number of significant projects such as a joint project with Rosatom State Corporation to set up Russia’s first polyacrylonitrile filament plant for the MS-21 aircraft, with private investment of RUB 6.9 billion in equipment.

Statistics for 2020 were collected using the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade’s geo-information system (www.gisip.ru) by means of questionnaires filled in by park management companies, whose accuracy was verified by the Association of Industrial Parks of Russia and the Association of Clusters and Technoparks of Russia; the information was published on the official website of Rosstat.

The All-Russian Research Institute of Labour under the Ministry of Labour and Social Policies of the Russian Federation is conducting a survey to determine the staffing needs of organisations and identify prospects for the development of professional qualifications in the field of information security.

The survey will be conducted from April 15 to May 15 inclusive. In order to fill out the questionnaire, you need to go to https://itsecurity2021.vcot.info and register your personal account as a survey participant.

Survey results will be used to predict the demand for experts in the field of information security at different levels of education and specialisation, as well as the scope of their professional training.

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