The SME Corporation and the Knowledge Society of WEF-2024 signed an agreement on cooperation in youth education. The Director-General of the SME Corporation, Alexander Isaevich, and the head of Russian Knowledge Society, Maxim Treval, signed the document.

" Supporting starters, young entrepreneurs is one of the main activities of the SME Corporation. We continually engage a growing generation in business, support youth initiatives, organize events for them, including training, where young entrepreneurs can benefit from different assistance and support from the State. I am sure that our cooperation with the Knowledge Society will result in synergies in the development of youth entrepreneurship, the upgrading of the business knowledge of our schoolchildren and students and, as a result, the inflow into the SME sector of new personnel involved in the creation and development of their own business, Alexander Isaevich noted.

The annual agreement deals with cooperation, including through the federal education marathon " Knowledge. First " , as well as projects such as " Knowledge. Games " , a large-scale intellectual online game in Russia ' s record books, and " Knowledge. Premium " , aimed at identifying and supporting educators, lecturers, authors, bloggers and their academics.

Young activists, members of the " Knowledge Career " education project, which educates young people about professional opportunities in their own region, will also be able to meet with representatives of the SME Corporation in schools, colleges and universities, to learn more about the organization ' s activities in guided tours at its offices. The possibility of establishing internship programmes for young people from partner companies of the SME Corporation is also being considered.

" Today, the SME Corporation has officially become our partner in education, and we are encouraged to look forward to working together. Our colleagues do a lot to support entrepreneurs, and we in the Knowledge Society want to have as many people as possible in Russia with an active life, those who move the country forward. Businessmen are people like that. Now we, together with colleagues from the Corporation, will conduct orientation and education activities, including through our projects the Knowledge. Game and knowledge. A career. We will strengthen each other ' s initiatives so that as many people as possible in our country can learn about opportunities for development and self-realization " , said Maxim Treval.

The SME Corporation is a public federal structure that supports and develops small and medium-sized businesses. It assists individual entrepreneurs, legal persons and self-employed at every stage of development, accompanied by their decision to start their own business before entering foreign markets and exchanges. The number of users of the ICPD platform exceeded 900,000 over 2.5 years.

Russian Society " Knowledge " maintains its history from a Soviet public organization founded in 1947 at the initiative of Soviet intellectuals as the " Union Society for the Dissemination of Political and Scientific Knowledge " (from 1963, the All-Union Society of Knowledge, since 1991, the Russian Knowledge Society). Members of the Society promoted science and lectured on the achievements of the Soviet economy and industry. In 2016, " Russia ' s knowledge " was transformed into the General Russian Public-State Educational Organization " Russian Society " . On 21 April 2021, the President ' s message to the Federal Assembly, Vladimir Putin, stated that the Russian society should be relaunched on a modern digital platform.

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