1. Concept  Results 2012  Plans 2013

2. What is OpUS
Open University Skolkovo is a program of the Skolkovo Foundation OpUS Students
that aims at creating and developing a community of talented
young scholars and entrepreneurs whose expertise provides new OpUS is not an educational institution and it does not award
human resources and tech startups for Skolkovo Innovation Centre diplomas. OpUS students pursue their BA, MA and PhD degrees
and the innovation ecosystem of Russia. at the top Russian universities:
The participants of the program pass through all the stages of
creating a startup - from an idea to setting up a company. They can  MEPhI  MSU
test their business ideas with the help of business simulation
games and real-life contests, take part in events along with the  MIPT  MISIS
world leaders in business and technology, as well as be mentored
by successful entrepreneurs.  Bauman MSTU  HSE
 SPbGU  ITMO
KPI
1. Startups launched by OpUS students and their achieving the  SPbSPU  SPBAU
status of Skolkovo participants;
 TPU  TUSUR
2. OpUS students becoming the students of the Skolkovo
Institute of Science and Technology (SkolTech);
 TSU  SSMU
3. Internships and work experience at R&D centers and
departments of partner companies, participants and  et alias
departments of Skolkovo;
4. Integration of OpUS students in Russian institutions for
innovation development.

3. OpUS Model
Step 1. Selection Step 2. Program accelerator Step 3. Integration in the
…in the areas of biomed, IT, space technologies, robotics, etc… innovation ecosystem
• Top students (3rd year of study and up), MA and PhD • Skolkovo clusters
• Global technology agenda. Lectures and master classes on
students of top Russian universities • Skolkovo participating companies
the main areas of the technology research by leading
• Partnerships of young researchers and entrepreneurs • Skolkovo partner companies
researchers and heads of research labs and R&D projects.
• SkolTech
(students-partners of companies, clubs and • Technology entrepreneurship. Intellectual property
associations of students and young scientists) • Technopark
management, setting up a company, teamwork, management of
• Finalists and winners of tech contests organized by • Institutions for development
an innovation project, workshops and project mentoring.
• Government agencies
the Skolkovo Foundation and its partners. • Business, cultural and scientific communication. Cross-
cultural seminars. Participation in conferences, forums,
Types of selection processes: The ways of integration:
technology summits and competitions.
• OpUS Open Programs (commitment, passing all • Internships (including paid internships)
• Soft skills training. Teamwork. Presentations, negotiations,
stages of the program, interviews) ￫ at Skolkovo partcipating companies and partner
leadership.
• Contests organized by the Foundation and its companies
• Project management practice.
partners in the areas of Skolkovo clusters (the finalists ￫ internships at the Skolkovo Foundation (clusters)
and winners based on the performance at the • Academic training
Programme formats:
￫ Project presentations to the group of program
interview) • Courses and open lectures.
• OpUS Annual Enrolment (online and offline tasks, experts (Skolkovo Foundation employees,
• Seasonal schools.
mentors, experts, representatives of Skolkovo
interviews) • Self-education support (navigation, consultions) including the
partner companies)
use of the open education tools (edX, Coursera etc.)
￫ admission to SkolTech
• Thematic events (conferences, TEDx etc.)
• Employment
• International programmes
￫ Skolkovo participating companies and partner
• Project management
companies
￫ Skolkovo Foundation
• Student startups
￫ applications for being granted the status of a
project participant at Skolkovo
OpUS Model Elements
Community Communication platform (both offline and online) Involvement in the global agenda Successful world practices

4. OpUS Statistics (2012)
220 380 27.000
OpUS students lectures viewers
In Moscow, St.Petersburg and Tomsk. Online broadcasting
8.000 16 23.000
participants courses views
offline OpUS Events OpUS videos

5. Integrating OpUS students
in Skolkovo Innovation Ecosystem

6. Integrating in Skolkovo
8 projects 1 project 3 projects
8 projects of OpUS students got Participated in the Skolkovo M.D.
(Smart-museum) contest
Skolkovo participant status Passed the preliminary
examination
Gelius project reached the
contest’s final
31 students
Involved in the Skolkovo
Innovation Centre
7 interns 4 interns 4 interns The selection of interns
was launched
18 students
work at:
Participating companies – 12
+80 applications Partner companies – 2
submitted for internships IT Cluster – 1
in 2013. OpUS – 2
Skoltech– 1

7. Integrating in SkolTech and Russian Institutions for Development
9 OpUS students
took internships in the following programs:
Ministry of Economic • Socially-oriented NPO support
Development of Russia • State Strategic Planning Development
• Innovative Development
4 OpUS students 5 OpUS students
enrolled at SkolTech
Joined Youth Advisory Council of the Department of
9 OpUS students
Technology, Science and Entrepreneurship
Department for Science, (Moscow City Government)
Industrial Policy and
Business Development
submitted applications for 2013
2 OpUS students
7 OpUS students 1 employee
1 intern
took part in SkolTech MIT Innovation School
The selection of interns was launched
The Ministry of Education
and Science of Russia

8. Skolkovo Residents (Startups founded by OpUS students)
Tutorion
The project’s main objective is to create and develop special web
services which allow distance learning to become more widespread
and convenient in contrast to traditional learning in one classroom.
Initially the project focuses on global development and
commercialization on international markets of education. We expect
that first of all Tutorion platform will advance in the sector of private
e-learning.
IT Cluster
Chikhalov www.tutorion.ru
Yury

9. Skolkovo Residents (Startups founded by OpUS students)
Smart Technologies
The idea of the project is to create a special program software for
the banking sector. This software is designed to save money on
money collection services as well as increase effectiveness of
money distribution.
The system allows to make unique forecasts determining the date
and amount of future money collections. In addition the software
gives a money breakdown in regards to denomination and currency
based on statistics collected from ATM operations.
IT Cluster
Klimov www.community.sk.ru
Valentin

10. Skolkovo Residents (Startups founded by OpUS students)
Ksys Labs
Ksys Labs is an R&D and production company specializing in
development and research in the area of information security and
trusted solutions.
The key directions of research at Ksys Labs are represented with
the joint effort of development teams, including work in the areas
of system virtualization and experimental operating systems,
embedded systems, hardware platforms and programmable logic,
machine vision and image recognition.
IT Cluster
Sartakov www.ksyslabs.ru
Vasily

11. Skolkovo Residents (Startups founded by OpUS students)
Altair
The company was founded in 2011 by a team of researchers who
studied dynamic processes in condensed medium including cases
of substance continuity disruption.
Development of the program solution through multi-level modeling of
discreet-time systems is aimed to contribute a number of industry
sectors: chemistry, pharmaceutical, food, mining and refining.
IT Cluster
Asonov www.community.sk.ru
Igor

12. Skolkovo Residents (Startups founded by OpUS students)
Engex Lab
Development and commercialization of innovative engineering
technologies facilitating the rise in people’s life quality and
ensuring environmental preservation for future generations.
• Development of software and hardware systems regulating
buildings energy consumption
• Monitoring and control over the quality of climate inside the
building
• Development of new technologies aimed at utilization of heat
and electricity energy produced by people in their day-to-day
activities
IT Cluster
Nikiforov www.engexlab.com
Aleksander

13. Skolkovo Residents (Startups founded by OpUS students)
JSC Primerlife
Main goal of the project is creating a unique network based on
personal genome.
Primerlife is an interpretation system of SNP-genotyping results as
well as a consultation base allowing to reach out to genetic
counselors.
IT Cluster
Musienko Trunina www.primerlife.com
Sergey Anna

14. Skolkovo Residents (Startups founded by OpUS students)
Metemp
Company specializes on development of thermo electric materials
on the basis of selicium-germanium and Geissler compositions in
order to transform thermal power into electric energy.
The idea of the project is based on fundamental science of National
Research Technology University MISIS and entrepreneurial
competencies learned at Open University Skolkovo.
Energy Cluster
Voronin Usenko www.community.sk.ru
Andrey Andrey

15. Skolkovo Residents (Startups founded by OpUS students)
New Metallurgical Technologies LLC
Developing energy saving processes through a full-scale refinery of
technogenic waste based on new metallurgical technologies.
Energy Cluster
Sazhin www.community.sk.ru
Anton

16. OpUS Students Projects (Saint-Petersburg)
Project Investment Participants Achievements
RangeUP $ 150.000 [negotiations] Zadiraka Sergey Resident of Ingria business incubator
Resident of startup-accelerator IDM
Smart museum $ 170.000 Sokolov Andrey
Winner of winter school SumIT
Resident of startup-accelerator IDM
Cluborama $ 20.000 Turin Anton
Winner of winter school SumIT
LocalEvents - Schtefanets Ian Resident of interuniversity business incubator QD
Gusev Andrey
Gelius - Kasyanov Nikolay Skolkovo M.D. finalist
Kasyanova Anna
$ 30.000
eZWay Pavlov Igor In top 20 best Northern Europe’s projects
+ $ 150.000 [negotiations]
$ 20.000 ImagineCup Russia winner
7 sense Kitaev Vitaly
Winner of winter school SumIT

17. OpUS Model
Accelerator PROGRAM
…theme differentiated (biomed, IT, space technologies, robotics…)
1. Technological Entrepreneurship
2. Global Technological Agenda
3. Business and Cultural Communication RESULT
SELECTION 4. Soft Skills
University 5. Project Management
students
Partner competitions Human
resources for the
NAVIGATION, INTEGRATION innovation sector
OpUS open programs
Project Innovation
teams Talented Innovation Research and Development Education
Development
OpUS open youth Management Corporations (Skolkovo partners) Universities
Institutions for
competition (incl. government Innovation Technological (incl.
Development incl.
authorities) Companies (Skolkovo residents) SkolTech)
Skolkovo Foundaiton)
Technological
projects and
startups
1. Internships (incl. with compensation)
Partner 2. Education
networks 3. Employment
4. Foundation of student startups
COMMUNITY / NETWORK

18. OpUS Student Enrolment
First OpUS student enrolment was back in March 2011. Candidates
were asked to submit a video in English demonstrating their
technological, entrepreneurial, marketing and communication skills as
well as knowledge of foreign languages, creative thinking, academic
and professional achievements. As a result of the selection 108
students from Moscow universities were chosen to become participants
of OpUS Program.
During two yeas OpUS Program extended geographically. The second
enrolment (December-February 2012) was not only in Moscow but also
in St. Petersburg and Tomsk.
Candidates were asked to make a video in English, take written tests,
solve technological tasks prepared by Skolkovo Clusters and pass an
interview with experts.
The contest committee nominated 49 students from Moscow, 50 from
Saint Petersburg and 46 from Tomsk to become participants of OpUS
Program. Next OpUS student enrolment is scheduled for Spring 2013.
In addition OpUS Student status was granted to the finalists of
technological competitions organized by Skolkovo Foundation and
partners.

19. OpUS Programs (2012)
OpUS programs are designed to create a community of talented
young people with scientific, technological and entrepreneurship
competencies who strive to make progress in OpUS and contribute BioMedTech
to Skolkovo Project as well as to develop their ideas and projects in
order to get Skolkovo Participant status.
Entrepreneurship in IT
Space Entrepreneurship
Fundamentals of Technology Entrepreneurship
Robotics

20. BioMedTech
Joint program with Biomed Cluster - events
focused on biomedical technologies
entrepreneurship
The program included lectures of leading scientists and October 25th, 2012 - December 1st,2012. The chosen ideas was used to form relevant teams in
experts in a wide range of biomedical areas: from drug Competition of Ideas in the following areas: January, 2013. These teams will take part in a special
design and personalized medicine to mobile health and course focused on biotechnology projects.
surgical robotics. 1. Preventive and personalized medicine
2. IT in medicine and mHealth; The course program: the basics of business-modeling,
Participants: students, graduate students, postdocs and 3. Medical equipment, devices and materials. project management, marketing, intellectual property
young specialists in medicine, biotechnologies, physics, management, risk managements, leadership, team
engineering and programming. 10 winners were selected. building, soft skills.
The Foundation key partners and companies-participants
and applicants are involved in OpUS program realization.
This should help to improve the Biomed Cluster projects
pipeline quality.

21. BioMedTech
Lectures IT in medicine:
Vladimir Prutsky Mobile Diagnostics
14.03 Interсluster workshop
Biomarkers: First step to Personalized Medicine or Myth?
Hanson Gifford
03.04
Development, Implementation and Investment in Biomedical Projects: Silicon Valley Experience
International MedTech
Matthias Epple
14.05
Biomaterials: from the Сentimeter to the Nanometer Scale Innovation Summit
Conference
Oleg Primak
14.05
Department for X-ray Diffraction: Possibilities of the Measurements in the Faculty of Chemistry
Ajay Gautam
21.05 Innovative Pharmaceutics Development Stimulation and Investments in R&D: Focus on Emerging Future of Biomedical Technologies
Markets Singularity University Program Workshops
Vladimir Lopatin
31.05
Intellectual Property – Intellectual Creativity Standard
Peter Lindholm
05.06
Business Idea Design, Elaboration, Development and Realization in Biomedicine BioMedTech Summer school
Technological Entrepreneurship and innovative
Oleg Medvedev Business-projects Management
22.10
Role of ICT in Medicine Today: from Implanted Microchips to Supercomputers.
Mikhail Samsonov
24.10
Long Journey from Idea to Project
Avangard Znaniy Contest (AstraZeneca):
Lord Ara Darzi Pharmaceutical innovations: from Laboratory to Patient
01.11
Surgical Robotics and Technologies: Miracles or Reality Discussion
Raymond McCauley
02.11
Everything you Ever Wanted to Know about Biotech startups
Dmitry Sychev Immunophysiology:
06.11 Autoimmunity in Health and Disease
Personalized Medicine: Pharmacological Aspects
Contribution to Preventive and Predictive Medicine
Germes Chilov
30.11 Conference
Drug Design

22. Joint workshops with IT Cluster
Entrepreneurship in IT
Workshop # 4
22.02 IT in medicine. Mobile Diagnostics
Workshop # 5
18.04 Technology Transfer and
Commercialization of Innovations
Workshop # 6
05.10 Skolkovo for Residents! Residents for
Skolkovo!
Workshops on advanced information technologies are organized by
OpUS together with IT Cluster

23. Technological entrepreneurship in IT
Entrepreneurship in IT
230 13 11
program participants projects projects
reached the final
Project Gelius
reached the final of
Skolkovo M.D. Contest
Technology entrepreneurship lectures and seminars were organized by
OpUS in partnership with Microsoft
Project eZway
won Bortnik Foundation grant.
In Top-20 projects of early stage by Slush

24. Niches for Technology Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship in IT
Alexandra Markova
20.02 Co-founder of the Blackbox business incubator
Andrew Krovopuskov
27.02 Founder of Russian 3D Scanner LLC
Andrew Paly, Denis Khomyakov
12.03 Yarko Company
Ivan Vladimirov
19.03 Co-founder, Managing Director of Groupon Russia
Aynur Abdulnasyrov
26.03 Founder, CEO of LinguaLeo
The course of lectures was organized by OpUS together with
Sergey Konovalov
the Cisco Entrepreneurship Institute 02.04 CEO of Wishop
23.04 Ilya Gelfenbeyn
CEO and Co-owner of Speaktoit

25. Space Entrepreneurship
Alain Fournier-Sicre
29.02 Business Trends in Space. The Experience of Russia and
Europe
Vladimir Gershenzon
19.03 Remote Sensing: Stagnation or Information?
Monica Ebert
08.04 The Future of Space Business
Gagarin Research & Test Cosmonaut
14.04 Training Center
Theory and Practice in Star City
Edward Crawley
17.04 Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Space
The program of lectures and seminars was organized by
OpUS together with the Cluster of Space Technologies and Vladimir Popovkin
Telecommunications 27.09 Access to Space: Business Opportunities in Space Industry
07.12 Sergey Zhukov
Space Reform and Commercial Space Development in Russia

26. Wikipedia from within
Fundamentals of Technology Entrepreneurship
Course program: Wikipedia principles, search and evaluation of the
sources, writing and design of the articles on modern technologies
and materials in a wiki-like environment
40
program
participants
The program of lectures and seminars was
organized by OpUS together with Wikimedia Russia 5 articles

27. Quick Start
Fundamentals of Technology Entrepreneurship
About the course
Quick Start course was designed as a series of trainings.
Each participant took individual class with a personal coach.
The program of the course was designed that way in order to
help students identify their potential and develop their
leadership and management skills.
Course objectives
Upon completing the course, students will:
 develop administrative and entrepreneurial skills appealing
to his personal priorities
 know the basics of project management, how to start, develop
and promote their own business.
The course was organized by OpUS together
with the Coach Institute (St. Petersburg)

28. Foresight thinking: future engineering
Fundamentals of Technology Entrepreneurship
The course was in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Tomsk
Upon completing the course, participants got:
 medium and long-term foresight skills
 modeling experience and skills that will help them to sort out changes
that occur in organizations, cities, regions, countries due to technological
innovations
 skills how to start and manage entrepreneurial projects in a world of
rapid change
The course results
 The participants of the course managed to create teams that are able to
meet the major challenges of technological innovation and infrastructure
development of the country
 Open University Skolkovo program foresight was developed with
participation of the Agency for Strategic Initiatives
The course was organized by OpUS together with
The Future Designing Group

29. Russia Mega Trends (Frost&Sullivan)
Fundamentals of Technology Entrepreneurship
The project consists of two parts. The first one includes lectures about
technology vision, global trend etc. During the second part of the course
OpUS students analyze together with the experts the Russian trends in the
following areas:
 Hot Spots of Russia
 Back to Russia (Reverse brain drain)
 Modern Russia (E-government / e-services)
 Mega Events
 Urbanization in Russia (Mega Cities, Mega Regions)
 Localization of manufacturing in Russia (space, biomedicine)
The research done by OpUS students was used in Russia Mega Trends:
Russia Mega Trends: Macro to Micro Implications for 2020 Project was
Macro to Micro Implications for 2020 Report that was introduced at GIL
organized by OpUS together with Frost&Sullivan
2012 Conference (May 17th, 2012, Moscow).
The project involved 60 OpUS students from Moscow, St.Petersburg and
Tomsk, 30 of them participated in the final stage of the project.

30. World Future Society 2012
OpUS students participated in World Future 2012
Conference which was held in July, 27-29 in Toronto.
The topic of the conference was devoted to energy and
education, economy and human cultural change, health care
and technology development.
During the conference students had an opportunity to talk to
top foreign forecast experts and become assured that their
technological foresights and concepts are close to expert’s
vision.
The main result of the conference was an agreement with
Kenneth Hanter, Chairman of World Future Society, about
future mutual activities of forecast groups in Russia and WFS.
This potential communication should be done through OpUS
students.
OpUS students were the youngest audience at the conference, however
they were able to participate in serious discussions with world’s top
experts of the forecast sphere at World Future Society and Millenium
Project.

31. Introduction to Innovative Engineering
Fundamentals of Technology Entrepreneurship
About the course
Within the course students got acquainted with the experience of
top international technological companies, learned about technical
systems’ main stages of innovation cycle and competencies
necessary for an innovation engineer to become a successful
professional in an innovation center.
Course objectives
 Understanding of engineering fundamentals when implementing
innovation stages of technical system’s cycle among
Series of lectures by Professor Oleg Figovsky participants.
 Preparing participants for making right choices in future
professional education, including exploring possibilities of
professional realization in the Skolkovo project.

32. Guide to Innovation Economics
Fundamentals of Technology Entrepreneurship
Series of lectures by Professor Petr Schedrovitsky, an
expert in spatial development, regional and industrial
politics, innovations and human resources.
Main topics
 Differentiation of labor as the basics of economic development.
 Innovation Economics as a result of technologization.
 Industrialization in Russia and USSR. Challenges of creating an
innovation economy.

33. Anthropological Basics of Corporate Strategy
Fundamentals of Technology Entrepreneurship
Course objective
Creating a new vision for management and strategy allowing the link
between consciousness and management practices. This approach is
directed to prepare specialists in entrepreneurial management offering
the basics of new corporate management and strategy.
Main topics
 Crisis of modern-day management and historic typology of
liberal basics of corporate strategy.
Series of lectures by Professor Vladimir Malyavin  Anthropology of strategy.
 Strategy and management as an organic component of liberal
theory and practice.

34. Project Management Guide
Fundamentals of Technology Entrepreneurship
About the course
The course is designed to present a modern methodology of project
management. Students are able to learn about the content of project
management from initiation stage to implementation and completion.
Unique practical tools and methods available to project managers
are discussed within the course. Main project documents including
their function, structure and content, are analyzed by program
participants.
The course was organized by OpUS together with the
«Project PRACTICE» group of companies

35. Risk Management in Entrepreneurship
Fundamentals of Technology Entrepreneurship
Course objectives
• Presentation of fundamentals of risk management in
entrepreneurship.
• Building up competencies to identify and minimize risks of innovation
projects.
• Creating and presenting reports as a tool for working with investors
and partners.
• Demonstrating best practices of risk management on real Skolkovo
innovation projects.
Main topics
 Basics of risk management. Theory and instruments to identify
company’s risks.
 Approaches to estimate risks. Psychology of risk management.
Integration of risk management into company’s activities without
Series of lectures by Alexey Sidorenko, risk management manager discontinuing work.
(Department of Performance Management, Skolkovo Foundation)  Risk management. Risk financial reporting. Risk level
monitoring. Implementing risk management culture among
employees.

36. Robotics
Robotics Summer School organized by
OpUS and Imperial College London
Thorough study of robotics, artificial intelligence systems and their contribution to
humanity in such spheres as industry, medicine and education.
 Introduction to human-oriented Robotics
 Introduction to modeling
 Understanding activities
 Image processing
 Activity generation
 Future progress
 Interaction between robots and human
 Multi-component systems
Summer School Results
Skolkovo Robotics International Conference held 10/02/2013 organized by Skolkovo Foundaiton
Skolkovo Robotics Challenge preparation
Introduction of Robotics Program at OpUS

37. Self-education and Tutor Support
Self-education and student development is an important component of OpUS programs. Therefore an OpUS tutor works closely with each
student to identify their individual tracks in Skolkovo while leaders of the programs give recommendations and resources regarding self-
education and obtaining necessary knowledge for implementing their projects to Skolkovo.
Consultations on individual tracks in Skolkovo
Navigation and support of individual tracks of student development in Skolkovo Innovation system,
Skolkovo partners and other institutions for development.
Online broadcasting International systems of
and video archive open education
students from all parts of Russia can join It’s recommended to students to join
OpUS programs by watching online courses of Worlds’ top international
broadcasts or saved videos of events universities through open education
through OpUS Youtube channel. systems
E-Learning as an education philosophy
OpUS in partnership with the Fund for Infrastructure and Educational Programs (ROSNANO) within the Open Innovation Forum organized a panel discussion devoted to
distant training and retraining professionals for the economic high-tech sector, modern tendencies of e-learning, development of international partnerships in virtual
educational system, opportunities open to development institutions in creating a unified information/education-based network to boost human potential of innovation
companies.
Online program on technological entrepreneurship is a new joint project and next step in this partnership.

38. ОpUS / Tomsk
Introduction to Innovative Engineering
Lectures by Professor Oleg Figovsky
OpUS Open Programs in
Tomsk Jan 25th, 2012
Opening speech of Oleg Alekseev,
Vice President of Skolkovo Foundation
as a start of OpUS Program in Tomsk.
Foresight Thinking:
Project Management Guide Engineering of the Future Technological
Course is organized together with the Series of lectures, interactive workshops, Entrepreneurship
Project PRACTICE educational centre project session and student presentations in Medicine

39. ОpUS / Saint-Petersburg
Future of Entrepreneurship
Lecture and workshop by Gabriel
Baldinucci, VP Strategy and New
Venture Development, оn
interdisciplinary entrepreneurship
issues and typical startup mistakes
OpUS opened it’s program in Saint
Petersburg Feb. 24th 2012
Welcome speech of Vasily Kichedzhi,
Vice Governor of St. Petersburg
Technological Entrepreneurship SumIT Open Startup School
The process of creating startups in A program created for young
information technologies. entrepreneurs in the sphere of
information and bio technologies.
Program includes: identifying business Best teams had an opportunity to
models, putting together a project team, create their own business-models
market analysis and possibilities for and present their projects after a six
V Петербургский introducing the project on the market, weeks period at the final investment
identifying market niche, creating a session.
международный
V St. Petersburg International marketing plan, preparing project’s
инновационный форум
Innovation Forum presentation for the investor.

40. OpUS Summer School
Open University Skolkovo organized
it’s first Summer School

41. OpUS Summer School
Idea Communication
Visualization Project
Project
Management
A series of workshops about visual presentation of A series of workshops focused on A series of workshops about product management.
idea and product, intensive course "How to tell a communication skills development and Participants were able to pass through all the
story" about the visualization techniques and OpUS communication model structure. stages of the product launch on a business
scenarios fundamentals. simulator and redesign the products with a help of
RIS Ventures company and present them to
Skolkovo residents.
 LAVA, one of the leading graphic design companies  KVD Reframing, design and innovation
 Igor Gurovitch, graphic designer consultancy agency  Practical Inventions Centre
 Alexander Privalov, journalist  Soft Patent
 RIS Ventures
Skolkovo Workshops
Oleg Alekseev Isak Frumin
Vice President of Skolkovo Foundation Advisor to Vice President of
Oleg Genisaretsky Skolkovo Foundation
Chair of OpUS Expert Council Dmitry Shalagin Alexander Povalko
Deputy Director of Investment
Albert Efimov Department Deputy Minister of Education
IT Cluster Project Director
Alexey Fedorov and Science of the Russian
Mikhail Tykuchinsky Project Manager, Skolkovo Key Federation
Director of Cluster Development of Energy Partners Department
Efficient Technologies

42. OpUS 1st Anniversary 
Open University Skolkovo celebrated its first anniversary
on April 21, 2012.

43. Partner Projects
Contests, conferences, edutainment

44. Film Festival 360°
II Contemporary Science Film Festival 360° took place in
Moscow, Tomsk, Voronezh and Krasnoyarsk in 2012.
The mission is to analyze the impact of science, discovery
and innovations in everyday life and change the very idea
of ​science.
The festival featured 31 films presented in 6 programs: main program,
shot-films, kids program, ParisScience festival program, Guest&Best and
Nano Program.
Contemporary Science Film Festival 360° contributes to
rethinking the role of science in the society, involving more
active and passionate young scientists and innovators to the Contemporary Science Film Festival 360°
dialogue of science and art. www.360.polymus.ru

45. Singularity University Program
The program was organized by Open University Skolkovo
and Singularity University. Over 180 people participated in
the program in 2012.
The program was focused on analysis of emerging
technologies and key ideas that lead to changes in the
market and society. The main question is how revolutionary
scientific advances and convergence of technologies will
impact on individual markets and industries in the coming
years.
 Artificial Intelligence and  Medicine and Neurology
Robotics
 Nano Technology
 Biotechnology and
Bioinformatics  Network and Computer
Systems
 Energy
 Innovations and organization
of the society
Interviews with Singularity University speakers

46. Career Development and Entrepreneurship Workshop
A three-day workshop organized by the New York Academy
of Sciences, Open University Skolkovo and Russian Union
of Young Scientists for Russian students, graduates and
postdocs.
Workshop program featured panels:
 Job opportunities and career development
 Best practices for entrepreneurship, venture capital and
forming public-private partnerships.
Over 140 Russian students and postdocs participated in the Career
Development and Entrepreneurship Workshop
Seminar materials published on Skolkovo Foundation
website.

47. TEDxSkolkovo
TEDxSkolkovo TEDxSkolkovoLive TEDxYouth@Skolkovo TEDxSkolkovo
Sources of Optimism Radical Openness How I Changed the World. 2020г. New Vision
February 4, 2012 June 27, 2012 September 15, 2012 December 15, 2012
TEDxSkolkovo is independent TEDx event organized under
license from TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design). The
events are designed to transmit and develop the TED experience
in Skolkovo region, bringing to Skolkovo brightest speakers:
innovators, entrepreneurs, scientists and those who can make
profound and lasting contribution to the future. tedxskolkovo.com

48. TEDGlobal 2012 / New Educational Paradigms for Innovation Workshop
Open University Skolkovo became a partner of TEDGlobal and
organized a workshop during the Radical Openness Conference
that took place in Edinburgh, Scotland in June 2012. The
workshop was focused on the new educational paradigms,
innovation in technology and entrepreneurship.
In this brainstorm hosted by Andrey Egorov, CEO, Open
University Skolkovo, members of the TEDGlobal audience
shared innovative ideas, amazing stories and personal
experience in short talks.

49. Contests
Science and technological contests are the ways to invite the best students and postdocs in OpUS community.
In 2012 OpUS organized its own contests and participated as partner of the following competitions:
Imagine Cup / Microsoft Avangard Znany / AstraZeneca Startup of the Year / HSE Business Incubator
My Idea for Russia / Singularity University Simulating the Future / Skolkovo Foundation Innoway / NAVI Capital Management and Hevel Solar

50. OpUS Club
OpUS Club meetings in 2012:
 How to get access to the best and be successful in a global scale without
living your country. [Tomsk]
 Life and work in everyday life
 Megatrends and their impact on business, society and culture
 Skolkovo ideology
 The risks in choosing national innovation model. [Tomsk]
OpUS Club is an expert panel that represents working groups of
experts. How to motivate young people to study engineering and to
be involved in innovation process, how to develop innovation culture,
how to bring together science and engineering - these are the
questions that are in the agenda of OpUS Club meetings.

51. Conferences
Open University Skolkovo has proved itself as the organizer of the events that combine scientific, business and educational components, that
give participants a comprehensive look at the entrepreneurship. OpUS students participate also in major events organized by Skolkovo
partners.
OpUS – co-organizer
RU SCI Tech Forum 2012 International MedTech YEES 2012
The First International Forum of Russian-Speaking The conference is focused on the best practices in the
Science and Technology Professionals Innovation Summit sphere of education, business, innovative technologies.
OpUS Students - Participants
Frost & Sullivan GIL 2012 MedWAYS СEE-SECR 2012
Data Science Summit Russia 2012 Summer School on Concurrency 2012 Teched 2012
Russian Innovation Convention 2012 TechCrunch Moscow iStudio-Intel PforF
Open Innovations Forum Skolkovo meets DLD Slush by Startup Sauna
CRDF Global Technology Commercialization
World Future Society 2012
Pathfinder Entrepreneurship Development Program

52. OpUSVISION
OpUSVISION is a magazine made by OpUS
students who write about OpUS events and
life of the Skolkovo Innovation Centre.

53. Open lectures 2012 (some speakers)
Lord Ara Darzi Roberto Unger Raymond McCowley Oleg Medvedev Dileep Bhandarkar Vladimir Malyavin Ajay Gautam
Oleg Figovsky Sergey Haprov Gleb Pavlovsky Fadi Bishara Pyotr Shedrovitsky Artyom Oganov Martin Reiser
Alexander Kudryavtsev Alexey Smirnov Vladimir Popovkin Nikolay Polushin Brian Harry Scott Shenker Ryan Junee

54. Open lectures / events (Skolkovo Foundation speakers)
Alain Fournier-Sicre Pavel Sharov Sergey Zhukov Fedor Krasnov Pekka Viljakainen Alexey Sidorenko Oleg Pertsovsky
Dmitry Paison Edward Crawley Isak Frumin Albert Efimov Alexander Fertman Anton Voropaev Mikhail Tykuchinsky

55. OpUS Expert Council
Oleg Genisaretsky Oleg Alekseev Yury Baturin Vladimir Betelin Alexander Galitsky
Chair
Alexander Kuleshov Dmitry Peskov Alexey Ponomarev Konstantin Severinov Igor Fedorov

56. OpUS Team
Curators Staff
Andrey Egorov Katya Morozova Lena Dmitrieva Daria Avdulova
Oleg Alekseev
Kseniya Balitskaya Nikolay Yakovenko Evgeniya Russkih Lena Diryugina
Isak Frumin
Alexey Pospelov Evgeniya Smirnova Liana Kobzeva Oksana Zamyatina
St. Petersburg St. Petersburg Tomsk Tomsk

57. Plans 2013
Programs Key Events
Skolkovo Robotics (February 10, 2013)
BioMedTech IT Cluster, Skoltech and Skolkovo key partners
Biomed Cluster and Skolkovo key partners
Student Enrollment 2013 March 2013
Entrepreneurship in IT OpUS Graduation May 2013
IT Cluster and Skolkovo key partners First graduating ceremony
OpUS Alumni Club Launch
Space Entrepreneurship TEDxSkolkovo
TEDxSkolkovoLive, TEDxSkolkovo@Youth, TEDxChange, TEDxCity 2.0, TEDxSkolkovo
Space Cluster
Imagine Cup April 4-6, 2013 (Hypercube, Moscow), July 8-12, 2013 (St.Petersburg)
Russian and International Final (Microsoft, ASI)
Intellectual Property Issues OpUS Communication Centre September 2013
Skolkovo Intellectual Property Center
Opening OpUS communication center to host regular events, workshops and program
activities
Fundamentals of Technology Entrepreneurship OpUS Summer School July 2013
Program with the staff and partners of Skolkovo Foundation
Skolkovo Development and Commercialization Centre and Skolkovo key partners
My Idea for Russia March-April 2013
Singularity University
Robotics
IT Cluster and Skolkovo key partners III Contemporary Science Film Festival 360° October 2013
Politechnic Museum

58. Contacts
facebook.com/openusk
vk.com/openusk
twitter.com/openu_sk
youtube.com/openusk
sk.ru/opus
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