#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. 121 innovative projects from 46 cities in Russia and the CIS countries will take part in the accelerator Big Exploration: Polar Region. The teams will offer their developments for implementation at Norilsk industrial sites.
Let us remind you that 83 initiatives in four areas are qualified for the first round: ecology, digitalization of processes, new production technologies and a city in the Arctic. Based on the results of the qualifying stage, development teams of 29 projects, the most relevant for Norilsk and its enterprises, were invited to the acceleration.
The three-month educational program started in September: it included lectures, master classes, expert sessions and individual consultations for each team. In the finals, 13 teams successfully presented their technological solutions, and experts, noting the practical orientation of the startups and the high level of elaboration of ideas, announced the names of the winners.
1st place – project PAK Gravix for Granulometric Analysis of Rocks, head – Alexander Dremin, DAVTECH LLC;
2nd place – project Frost-resistant Chemical Anchors, head – Vadim Busygin, Russpoli LLC;
3rd place was shared by two projects:
Dexterity PRO, managers – Elena Kirillova, Dmitry Kirillov, Modum Lab LLC;
VVST – Reducing the Graphite Electrodes Consumption for Metallurgical Plants, head – Stanislav Nevezhin, VVST LLC.
“Some projects became a discovery for the expert community representatives due to their inventions. I especially liked the project with ferromagnets and how this technology was integrated into the wastewater treatment system”, noted Andrey Chebotayev, the Sustainable Development Programs Implementation Department’s director at Nornickel. “I was pleased that many of the projects are not just start-ups but already successful businesses. We will need to work with everyone on issues of implementation and support from the point of view of the climatic and production characteristics of the region”.
The organizers of the accelerator Big Exploration: Polar Region – the winner of the competition for long-term social projects of the Main Resource 2.0 program of the Our Norilsk endowment fund – was performed by the Polar State University and the All-Russian accelerator competition Big Exploration in partnership with the Our Norilsk fund, Nornickel and the Norilsk Development Agency.
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Text: Marina Horoshevskaya, Photo: Polar State University’s press service
