BUSINESS IMPACT. LOCAL SOLUTIONS TO GLOBAL PROBLEMS.

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We are proud to announce the start of the Youth Competition “Business Impact. Local solutions to global problems”, the Grand Prix holders of which will be awarded with certificates for scholarships at SUMAS, – the new project of the UN Global Compact Network Russia with co-organizer ‘Young Group’ serving as an operator. The Contest has begun in March and will last in support of the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) throughout the entire year. The key goal of the Contest is to attract attention of students, young scientists, teachers, specialists and other relevant categories of young Russian citizens to discuss the mission, issues and ways to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals up to 2030 (hereinafter referred to as SDGs), with an emphasis on the role of business in developing effective ways to promote and implement them. The contest is held in three nominations – Media Impact, Impact Project Theory, and Start-UP Practice. SUMAS provides the main Prize Fund and is being actively engaged in all the milestones of the Contest including Jury membership and work in the Organizational Committee.
The Contest is supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, Embassy of Switzerland in Russia, the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, United Nations Association of Russia, Executive Committee of the World Federation of United Nations Associations, UN Information Center in Moscow, UN-Environment Office in Russia and other pool of information partners; leading Russian companies – participants and partners of the UN GC Local Network – also support the Contest.

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