The National Youth Innovation Convention, sponsored by the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs, meets every year. The first convention took place in Moscow in December 2008.
The Innovation Convention is an annual reporting event for the Zworykin Project, concerned with spotting young Russian talent in science and technology. (Vladimir Zworykin, 1888-1982, was an American engineer of Russian origin, a pioneer of television technology.) The purpose of the project is to help inventors with breakthrough ideas commercialise them, to establish industry contacts, to develop prototypes and find experts, partners and investors for economically and scientifically promising developments.
More than 10,000 seekers have applied to the Zworykin Project over the past year. Regional youth innovation conventions took place in the Far Eastern, Volga, and Urals Federal Districts.
The inventors of the best regional projects will take part in the All-Russia Convention in St Petersburg. Winners will be chosen in the following nominations: "Best Innovation Project"; "Best Innovation Idea"; and "Best Innovation Product." The Zworykin Project winner will be awarded one million roubles.
ONEXIM Group and Russian Venture Company are sponsors of the 2009 prize.
The 2009 shortlist of finalists includes 12 entrants.
Stanislav Khartov
His technology for obtaining new types of nanomaterials will make it possible to determine the concentration of harmful substances in the air with a mobile phone, arrive at an instant flash diagnosis of a person's medical condition, desalt water, and manufacture low-cost computer memory chips.
Marat Mukhamedyarov
His project aims to treat such diseases as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's with a new class of medical preparations that keep neurons alive, the death of which is the main reason for the illnesses. Project implementation will improve the quality of life and prospects for patients suffering from these diseases.
Artyom Razumkov
His project, Intellectual IP Video Browsing Software, is the first Russian software intended for IP cameras. Its innovative features give it four times the productivity of similar models and enable the user to find specific files in video archives from a photo of a human face, or a person's posture.
The first version of the software is being tested at companies in the Perm Territory.
Irina Cherunova
Her project is designed to promote safety when handling explosives with special protective clothing with intelligent detection and analysis of the body's static electricity. The project offers a new industrial safety technology for the gas and oil industry.
Gazprom has started adopting the new technology at its local branches.
Ramil Rakhmatullin
His product can be used to treat burns, diabetic foot, and venous trophic ulcers, as well as in cosmetology. Giamatrix cosmetics are already in production and on sale.
Denis Rebrikov
His development can perform an instant diagnosis of infectious human diseases and determine the histocompatibility of tissues.
There are over 200 test systems currently available to detect pathogens causing infectious diseases in humans and animals, as well as instruments to determine HLA genotype (in transplants), or to detect genetically modified components in foodstuffs. NPF DNK Technology test systems are used by health, blood, quarantine and other services.
Pavel Manovich
His Marva project helps to provide prompt answers to questions posted on a website, as well as to arrange instant sales, automatically and otherwise.
Andrei Grachev
His project is concerned with the production of mobile units designed to convert low-quality timber into a liquid fuel. The unit can also process vegetable biomass into biofuel.
Lilia Anisimova
Her biopreparation is designed to clean the environment of dangerous xenobiotics.
The product she has invented removes up to 98% of pesticides and the derivatives of chlorinated aromatic compounds from soil and water. A 50-gramme dose is enough to sanitise 600 square metres. The solution is 25 times cheaper than the only other currently available method of soil cleansing: burning. The product is unmatched by any other in Russia or elsewhere.
Yelena Chuprova
Her Rusavtobus project enables city residents to find the shortest route between two addresses by using any type of public transport and allowing to avoid traffic jams.
The service is offered on the website www.rusavtobus.ru. As of May 2009, it was running in nine cities and two countries: Moscow, St Petersburg, Yekaterinburg (beta), Kolomna, Nizhny Novgorod, Perm, Rostov-on-Don (beta), Kostroma (beta); and Odessa (in debugging stage).
Dmitry Sposob
His automated system of maintaining the quality and reliability of any equipment includes special software to create a virtual image of any radioelectronic device.
The technology is intended for designing radioelectronic equipment and reducing the number of tests, especially in the initial stages.
Vadim Komeiko
He heads the project to develop and introduce a technology for producing tissue implants from stem cells.
Sergei Kubashev (ONEXIM Group prize winner)
His project is aimed at optimising the operation of thermal power stations by reducing fuel consumption and adopting new equipment cooling methods.