UrFU Technological accelerator has been opened during the youth forum “Niotane”

15:41, May 26, 2015

The participants of the innovation youth forum "Niotan-2015" attended seminars and master classes

Innovative infrastructure of Ural Federal University combined the Innovative regional Youth Forum "Niotan 2015" and the opening of UrFU Technology Accelerator. The event was held on May 22-24. Teams of 16 innovative projects of the university and eleven projects submitted by the forum organizers, the Ministry of Sport and Youth Policy of the Sverdlovsk region, has been operating in two separate groups, but came together to participate in seminars and master classes.

The mentors were the partners of the Moscow Center for Commercialization of Innovations: Mikhail Zaharevich, Alexander Podkovyrov and Leonid Danilov; senior lecturer of Ural State University of Economics, Ksenia Arkhangelskaya; CEO of "Tsarskaya Privelegia" company Alexander Levkin; tracker of the Ural Branch of the Foundation for Development of Internet-Initiatives, Mikhail Avdeev; consultant of the Federation of Management Control, Ilya Anischenko. They have helped nearly 50 participants of the forum and the accelerator to determine at what stage is the project and to develop a road map for its implementation, introducing them to the technology of building brand of innovation product, development of business model and preparing successful presentation for the possible investors. As a result, a number of ideas had been improved.

Many project teams have significantly improved their ideas. The leaders were determined: on the technological platform the leader was a project of robotic systems for the diagnosis of high-voltage lines "Kanatohod" (author: UrFU lecturer Alexander Lemekh), and among social, educational and IT -Projects - a project of the student from Ural Medical University, Alexandra Khramtsova "Health with your own hands".

According to experts, the union brought the forum to a new level, and the participants of Technology Accelerator strengthened the desire to pass the program will the end. The participants have month and a half of hard work ahead of them.