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On September 5, Deputy Prime Minister of the republic – Tatarstan Minister of Informatization and Communication Roman Shaykhutdinov made a presentation of Interregional Competence Centre - the Kazan Technical College of Information Technology and Communications to Deputy Minister of Education of Russia Irina Potekhina, who arrived on a working visit in Kazan.

On September 5, on the International Day of Charity, Tatarstan Ministry of Informatization and Communication together with industry enterprises held a charity event presenting school bags to 23 first-graders, children of the All Together Fund. Disabled children, orphans, children from low-income families were among them.

The mass enrollment of children into pre-school educational institutions for the 2018/19 academic year in Tatarstan has finished. On April 1, it started in Kazan and Naberezhnye Chelny and on June 1, throughout the republic and ended on August 31.

On October 1-2, experts of the rating agency SGM and the "Higher School of Economics" will share their vision of the development of Smart City technologies at the World Digital Summit on the Internet of Things in Kazan.

Director of the Institute for Regional Studies and Urban Planning at the Higher School of Economics Irina Ilina said that a city in which problems are solved with the help of modern technologies and with the active participation of the entire population and municipal authorities can be called "Smart".

On September 4, Deputy Prime Minister of the republic – Tatarstan Minister of Informatization and Communication Roman Shaykhutdinov handed in personal grants from Tatarstan Government for training in the area of information technologies to 50 students of the Higher School of Information Technologies and Intelligent Systems of the Kazan Federal University (ITIS KFU).

On September 4, at the Kazanskaya Yarmarka exhibition centre, under Tatarstan Oil, Gas and Petrochemicals Forum – 2018 and the International Specialized Exhibition "GEO-KAZAN: Exploration. Geodesy. Cartography ", a two-day international scientific and practical conference" Topical issues of geodesy and geoinformation systems” has started. The conference gathered over 250 participants from all over Russia. Deputy Prime Minister of the republic, Tatarstan Minister of Informatization and Communication Roman Shaykhutdinov took part in the plenary part of the event.

Under the 6th All-Russian Conference of Youth Innovation Creativity Centers, the All-Russian robot technical contest "Agrorobofestival" was held at the Kvantorium children’s technopark in Almetyevsk.

Young engineers and inventors up to 18 years old introduced innovative developments in the automation and robotization of the agro-industrial complex in five areas: Smart Greenhouse, Smart Farm, Smart Garden-Bed, Agrorobot and Quadrocopter.

The 31st selection of start-up projects to the Business Incubator has competed in technopark in the sphere of high technologies "IT Park" in Kazan last weekend. As many as 140 applications were submitted for the participation in the selection, 36 of them were included into the shortlist. They introduced their projects to the experts.

In the first half of the current year, customers placed 23,000 notifications about the procurement in the regional information system "e-shop”. As many as 47,000 contracts with the total amount of 64.8 billion roubles were concluded through the system in the first half of 2018. Total savings amounted to 1.5 billion roubles.

On September 3, at the Ministry of Informatization and Communication of the republic, Deputy Prime Minister – Minister Roman Shaykhutdinov chaired an extended meeting with the industry enterprises, which summed up the results of the work in the first half of 2018.