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Courses have started at Yandex lyceum in Tatarstan. It is a free course for pupils, who want to study programming. The solemn launching ceremony of the project was held at the Interregional center of competences - Kazan technical school of information technologies and communications with the participation of the Minister of Information and Communications Roman Shaikhutdinov and Director General of Yandex, Russia Alexander Shulgin.

More than 7,000 messages about ecological violations for the last academic year: this is the result of the 3d regional contest “School eco-patrol”. The awarding ceremony of the contest was held in the previous weekend. Most active school children of the republic, who found more unauthorized landfills by results of 2016-2017, gathered at the event.

On October 6, during St. Petersburg international gas forum, Innopolis University and Gasprom signed an agreement for fulfillment of development and technological works. It has become the next stage of the Agreement on scientific and technical cooperation and partnership between Gasprom and Tatarstan that was signed in autumn last year.

Tatarstan Ministry of Information and Communications in cooperation with Federal Supervision Agency for Information Technologies and Communications in the Republic of Tatarstan developed the list and forms of documents for operators of personal data for the purpose of fulfilling statutory regulations, in particular, the Federal law №152 «On personal data”.

On October 14-19, WorldSkills Competition-2017 will be held in Abu Dhabi. Tatarstan will be presented by eight participants in seven competences, including IT. Four students of the Interregional center of competences - Kazan technical school of information technologies and communications will also take part in the event.

Solemn opening of Yandex lyceum will be held at Kazan technical school of information technologies and communications on October 9.

Minister of Information and Communications of the Republic of Tatarstan Roman Shaikhutdinov and Minister of education and science Engel Fattakhov, Director General of Yandex in Russia Alexander Shulgin and Head of Yandex lyceum Marina Suslova will take part in the event.

Results of the 3d regional contest “School eco-patrol” have been summarized. The contest aims to involve students of secondary institutions in the work on improving environmental situation and promotion of electronic state and municipal services. The winners will be announced on October 7.

On October 3, Minister of Information and Communications of the Republic of Tatarstan Roman Shaikhutdinov visited Singapore with the official Tatarstan delegation headed by Rustam Minnikhanov.

Scholarships from IT enterprises were handed over to 21 students of the Interregional center of competences - Kazan technical school of information technologies and communications. A special commission has been considering contest projects of the candidates over a few months.

On October 1-2, with the official Russian delegation headed by Deputy Chairman of Russian Government Arkady Dvorkovich, Minister of Information and Communications of the Republic of Tatarstan Roman Shaikhutdinov was on a working visit in Japan. The main purpose of the visit was participation in the annual Science and Technology in Society (STS) forum in Kyoto. STS forum is a place for open informal discussions that helps solving global problems by using science and technology.