Round table “How to develop mentoring in Russia”.

Q&A. Robert Garvey talking with the participants implementing or planning mentoring projects.

“Best practices for mentors”. Master class by Professor Robert Garvey, expert in mentoring.

Round table “International and Russian practices in mentoring in entrepreneurship”.

“World trends in mentoring programmes”. Master class by mentoring leading expert Professor Robert Garvey.

Boris Tkachenko and Irina Gorelova held a “mentoring session” at the IIIrd Voronezh Entrepreneurship Forum on the 18th November, 2016.

Extended Mentors Club meeting took place on the 17th of November in Kirov, in the framework of World Entrepreneurship Week.

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 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.