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The Bringing Together platform was presented to accelerators and business development partners

On June 15, within the framework of the Bringing Together project, the Workshop for accelerators and business development partners "Russian-Finnish Investment Internet Platform" was held. The event, which brought together more than 30 participants, was held in a mixed format: the online part was held in Zoom, the offline part was organized at the St. Petersburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Ludmila Karelina, Project Leader, vice-president of the SPbCCI, made a presentation of the project and the Bringing Together platform. The main services of the platform were presented – informational ("News", "Calendar of Events") and interactive ("Assessment of project investment appeal", "BTClub", "BTMarket", etc.). The project leader demonstrated the work of the user's personal account and the opportunities provided by the Platform, as well as invited participants to register and actively use the Platform's services.

Representatives of Finnish and Russian accelerators and business development partners (Ekaterina Petrova, GenerationS Corporate Accelerator; Maria Melnikova, Helsinki Business Hub; Roman Koshelev, Center for the Corporate Accelerator of Start-up Projects, Russian Railways; Olga Makeeva, Business Finland; Yanina Rychkova, Unified Entrepreneurship Center; Miikka Neuvonen, NewCo; Elizaveta Urosova, Business Incubator Ingria; Sergey Troshkov, Russian-Finnish Life Science Park; Alexey Udovichenko, Centre of Technology Transfer, Ioffe Institute (Ioffe-LUT Accelerator); Enrique Montaño, Nordic Startup School; Andrey Blinskiy, Fund of the SMEs development of SPb; Alexey Solomatin, ITMO Accelerator) spoke about the role of their organizations and projects in supporting entrepreneurship and the potential for international and Russian-Finnish cooperation.

The participants exchanged proposals for cooperation within the framework of the Bringing Together cross-border project and agreed to discuss further steps for its development.

16 June 2021