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Students of the Higher school of information technologies and systems received 50 personal grants today. The money for one academic year is allocated every year to entrants with high scores in the Unified State Examination, who could not enter the state-funded department of IT faculty. 

The 26th selection for Business incubator will be held at Naberezhnye Chelny IT-park on September 16-17. Application forms should be filled in on the website http://itparkchelny.ru/ until September 10, 2017.

On September 6-7 the guests of Eastern Economic Forum-2017 will be able to send their brief cases with materials of the forum, and exclusive postcards with the pictures of Vladivostok to any corner of the world for free. For the second year in a row Russian Post has been a logistics provider of the forum.

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IoT World Summit Russia 2017, the international event that will discuss opportunities of the key aspects of human needs by means of modern systems and technologies based on “Internet of Things” platforms, will be held on September 19-20 in Innopolis (Kazan, the Republic of Tatarstan).

On September 1, Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Timur Zaripov took part in school assembly at Verkhy Uslon upper secondary school. 34 children will start studying at the school this year. The solemn school assembly was dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the school.

On September 1, on the Knowledge Day, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov and Russian Deputy Minister of Education and Science Lyudmila Ogorodova visited Kazan technical school of information technologies. The guests were accompanied by Minister of Information and Communications Roman Shaikhutdinov, Minister of Education and Science of the republic Engel Fattakhov, and others.

On August 29, at their meeting at the official residence of Tatarstan President in the Kazan Kremlin, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov and senior managers of ERTICO – ITS Europe discussed prospects for development of cooperation in the sphere of transport technologies, and development of various solutions in the field of intelligent transport systems (ITS) in particular.

On August 28, Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan – Minister of Information and Communications Roman Shaikhutdinov celebrated his birthday. On behalf of the staff of the Ministry of Information and Communications we congratulate you, dear Roman Aleksandrovich, on this wonderful holiday!

On August 28, at their meeting in the Government House of the republic, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov and the founder of the Ethereum project Vitalik Buterin discussed issues related to possible cooperation and interaction in a number of areas.

Hackathon “Blockchain in action” is being held within the framework of All-Russia conference “Blockchain – new oil of Russia” at Kazan IT-park. Names of the best authors of the best projects, who will receive money prizes from organizers and partners of the event, will be announced tomorrow.