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We are happy to announce the launch of Youth Business Russia in Tomsk on the 7th of October!

YBR is focused on assisting young people who decided to start and develop their own business, formation of youth entrepreneurship community and implementation of best practice in business support including advice, training, access to financing, networking and mentoring.

On September 14-16, mentoring practice started within the framework of the Youth Business Kazakhstan (YBK). Boris Tkachenko, together with international mentoring expert John Cull held seminars for mentors and mentees, mentee and mentor matching and initial meetings, consultations for YBK, which is being implemented by MOST business incubator.

On September 13, Boris Tkachenko moderated an expert session on mentoring at the EdCrunch Educational Conference at the Moscow State University of Civil Engineering. YBR international speakers and mentors Nika Bazilevskaya, Tamara Naidenova and Vyacheslav Fedoseev acted as project experts.

The joint project of Youth Business Russia and Accenture Russia allowed young businessmen in Primoriye to put their ideas of own business into life.

The joint project of Accenture Russia and IBLF Russia has been completed in August 2016.

The large scale work on support of budding and active entrepreneurs has been implemented in 7 Russian regions through this strategic partnership during the period of 5 months.

On September 9, Mentoring Institute acted as a partner at the session “Mentoring: How to Train New Manufacturing Entrepreneurs?”, and Boris Tkachenko moderated the mentoring section at Interregional Industrial Forum “Made in the South: Opportunities for a Regional Manufacturer”.

On September 6, Boris Tkachenko held the meetings of Mentor Council and Mentoring Club in Ryazan, as part of the common project with the Ryazan Regional Guarantee Fund. Ekaterina Geraskina, Project Director, co-launched the project in June, after having completed preliminary 3-month monitoring of matches interaction and discussed the results and outlined next steps together with Boris.

On August 21-28, Boris Tkachenko took part in Youth Forum “Baikal 2020". Boris acted as key speaker at the opening of the Forum and round table on youth entrepreneurship, as well as an expert at “Business and Career” section. The Forum served the platform for negotiations on YBR launch in Irkutsk Regional and pilot start of mentoring programme for active entrepreneurs in several districts in the Region.

Accenture and YBR held the YBR Programme section dedicated to the 7th year of the programme work in Voronezh at the Business Forum during Entrepreneur Day and Wilhelm Stoll award ceremony on the 26th of May.

On July 21-28, Boris Tkachenko took part in the training sessions for Youth Business Kazakhstan on development of methodology for entrepreneurship training and training for trainers. The session was delivered together with Chris Massey, YBI Director on network relations and Carol Appel, YBI Director on executive training.