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Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO, one of the leading private business schools in Russia and the CIS, was founded in 2006 by members of the business community. The school’s founding partners are 10 Russian and multinational firms and 11 individuals, each a leader of Russian business. The Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO has been awarded 4 out of 5 "Palmes of Excellence" in the international Eduniversal ranking and recognized as one of the top 300 business schools with significant international influence. The educational offerings of the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO include programs for businesses at any stage of development — from startups to major corporations entering international markets.

Vnesheconombank is a State Corporation performing functions of the Bank for Development. It operates to diversify the Russian economy, boost its competitive edge and encourage the inflow of investments. Vnesheconombank funds major investment projects aimed at removing economic growth infrastructure restrictions. VEB does not compete with commercial credit institutions and participates only in those projects that are not capable of receiving private investors’ financing. Under the Memorandum of the Bank’s Financial Policies Vnesheconombank is to extend credits and guarantees for projects payback periods of which exceed 5 years and a total value is more than 2 billion rubles. In 2010, two projects in which Vnesheconombank participated, namely, modernization of the Khabarovsk refinery and construction of a polypropylene manufacturing complex in Tobolsk received the Deal of the year Award of the Trade Finance Magazine incorporated in the Euromoney plc publishing group. These projects were implemented on the principle of export-import and project financing through raising (up to 10 and 13 years respectively) financing from a syndicate of foreign banks against the coverage of foreign export insurance agencies. In 2011, the Bank’s loan portfolio amounted to almost 500 billion rubles. Under the Bank’s new strategy it is to increase to 850 billion rubles by 2015 and the proportion of innovation projects is to amount to 20%.

ITMO University is one of the top universities in Russia. With over 120 years of experience moving it forward, ITMO is a trailblazer in all things IT, robotics, smart technologies, quantum science, and photonics. ITMO University fuses its expertise in technical sciences with social sciences to explore interdisciplinary fields, such as science art, urban studies and digital humanities. ITMO University is more than a university – it’s a research and educational corporation. On the one hand, it applies fundamental approaches and generates new knowledge; on the other, it develops and launches new products in close partnership with diverse industrial partners.