How to turn young people’s ideas into real products Space Day Forum was held in Minsk

Solutions and projects that the economy needs. Traditional markets are being replaced by intelligence and creativity. For Belarus, this trend is a strategic direction. How to turn young people’s ideas into real products The answer to this was sought at the large-scale forum Space Day.

The platform is an opportunity to see how the startup community lives and understand what should be done next. This year, the forum has almost two thousand participants, which is a record, including students, entrepreneurs and experts. Partner – High Technology Park. The focus today is on the creative economy. And the IT sector is its locomotive. Therefore, such projects are the majority. The B2B segment is also leading – it is solutions for process optimization and data processing. Investment in the new and promising - awarding grants from HTP. They received 30 students and three teachers.

Anna Ryabova, Head of the Secretariat of the Supervisory Board of the High Technologies Park: “The majority is expected to be Bgurovskaya.” That's clear. Oddly enough, only one student from BSU. We were very pleased with the University of Grodno, Polotsk and Vitebsk. Very interesting, very mature decisions. It should be noted that the teachers we have encouraged are also many from regional universities. That is, Grodno and Vitebsk also received grants. Projects – both on cloud solutions, and on solutions with artificial intelligence, on data processing, solutions applied to medicine, solutions applied to education. That's what's good about this environment, it doesn't limit itself at all."".

There's a lot of chances to show up. A special program intends to give impetus to the development of the national startup ecosystem. The two-month course on innovative entrepreneurship will be held at the sites of 12 universities. For participants - lectures, trainings. The final will be the presentation of the project.

Egor Oliferko, Chairman of the Board of the Public Association “Youth Innovation Community Startup Space”: This program is designed for those children who have an idea, a product or want to join one of the startup teams. The program will go through several stages. First, now there is registration from September 15 to September 27. Then there will be a qualifying stage, projects will be selected. Then the educational stage in 12 universities will pass. Where the invited speakers will speak. The best 2-3 projects from each university will go to the Startup Generation competition, where they will already speak before such a large-scale, full-fledged expert commission at our other forum.

The plans for this year are to involve more than a thousand people in the educational program. We expect to see a hundred new startups by January.