Social Impact Award - international competition for aspiring social entrepreneurs

For a number of years Rostelecom along with the Impact Hub Moscow – a center supporting socially significant entrepreneurial projects has been announcing winners of the Russian stage of the Social Impact Award competition. The participants are young entrepreneurs from different regions of the country up to 30 years of age who strive to solve important problems of the society and economy.

For the fifth year running Rostelecom has declared a special nomination “Internet for a better world” for authors of projects that use Internet technology to create a product or key tool of promotion of their ideas.

In 2018, 13 projects reached the final, the authors of which got a chance to participate in a three-month business incubator program. Two winners received the main prize of the competition - a money prize and a trip to Tbilisi for an international meeting.

For the purpose of getting ready for the competition, open seminars, webinars, video lectures, as well as workshops on key topics are held: from studying the target audience to writing a business plan. Within the period of five years, more than four thousand people from all over Russia have taken part in the educational events of the competition.

Rostelecom is a socially responsible company that takes an active part in the development of youth entrepreneurship and seeks to provide the young generation with new opportunities in the field of digital technologies.