Digest of Start-up Centre of BNTU recent events. November 2014 – February 2015

November 13, 2014 – meeting with Denis Friedrich, Project Manager of the Innovestment GmbH (www.innovestment.de), where cooperation prospects in the field of youth innovation support between Start-up Centre of BNTU and Innovestment were discussed.

 

November 18, 2014 – Minsk Brunch of “Belarusian Republican Youth Union” gathered more than 40 of best youth projects and ideas under one roof to be presented within the Republican contest “100 Ideas for Belarus.” “100 Ideas for Belarus” – Republican project, organized by the Belarusian Republican Youth Union. The event is aimed at finding the best projects in various fields, which could be useful for the society of Belarus.

Start-up Centre of BNTU presented two projects from different fields: medicine and construction. The project team included V. Gmyrak, M. Zhurkevich and O. Safronova, project managers, and the developer of the project on production of building materials, a graduate student from BNTU D. Pisarenko. Currently, projects are implemented at the team’s own expense, so the task of managers was to find potential investors and funding opportunities under government programs and projects. For more detailed information, please, see the link – http://startup.bntu.by/archives/546

On Saturday, November 29, 2014 at 19.00 our activities were presented in the TV-programme “Picture of the World” with Yury Koziatko on PTP-Belarus. For more detailed information, please, see the link http://www.ctv.by/programma-kartina-mira-na-rossiya-belarus-za-29-noyabrya-2014 (36.55 – 39.28 min).

December 4, 2014 – business-training on IDP courses within Belarus-China Youth Innovation Forum “New Horizons 2014”. For more detailed information, please, see the link http://startup.bntu.by/archives/566

February 17, 2015 – LLL business-training on IDP courses for experts of small innovative enterprises – subsidiaries of Science and Technology Park of BNTU “Polytechnic”. For more detailed information, please, see the link http://startup.bntu.by/archives/566

February 19, 2015 – business-training on IDP courses for finalists of the contest “100 Ideas for Belarus”. For more detailed information, please, see the link http://startup.bntu.by/archives/566

February 24, 2015 – final of the contest “100 Ideas for Belarus” was held in Minsk. Two projects of the Start-up Centre of BNTU were presented at the contest: “Pilot production of magnesite cementitious nano-material and supplementary products from carbonate raw material” (project manager – Ksenia Safronova) and “Robotic rehabilitation complex” (project manager Maxim Zhurkevich). For more detailed information, please, see the link http://startup.bntu.by/archives/566