There have been summed up the results of the first stage of the Student Start-Up competition, which the Russian Ministry of Higher Education and Science is conducting together with Innovation Promotion Foundation under the Platform of University Technological Entrepreneurship federal project.
According to the protocol adopted at the meeting of the foundation management office, the list of projects that will receive funding under the Student Start-Up programme includes four developments of Saratov University. Having won grants, the employees and postgraduates of the Institute of Physics, SSU, will receive one million rubles to implement each project.
Two start-ups won in the Medicine and Health-Saving Technologies direction. The first of them, The import substitution of EEG electrodes for small animals, was developed by a first-year postgraduate Vasilii Ageyev. His scientific supervisor is Associate Professor of the Department of Optics and Biophotonics Ivan Fedosov. The second one, The development of methods and devices for noninvasive restoration of ureteral urodynamics for patients with pyelonephritis, was created by Oksana Kutikova, a third-year postgraduate under the supervision of Associate Professor of the Department of Medical Physics Andrei Rytik.
In the New Devices and Intelligent Production Technologies direction, the Laser autodyne seismic sensor project was noted, belonging to a fourth-year postgraduate, the administrator of the SSU Boiling Point Centre, and Assistant of the Department of General Physics Maksim Inkin. His scientific supervisor is Chair of the Department of Medical Physics Anatolii Skripal.
Another project that will receive funding is The laboratory workshops on the development of hardware and software microcontroller systems for bioengineering, robotics and telecommunications. It was developed by a fourth-year postgraduate, Assistant of the Department of Innovation at JSC NEFTEMASH-SAPCON, a junior researcher at the Department of Dynamic Modelling and Biomedical Engineering Victoria Skazkina. The project was supervised by Professor of the Department of Dynamic Modelling and Biomedical Engineering Anatolii Karavayev.
In total, 650 winners will receive the grant, 216 start-ups are related to digital technologies, 161 – to new devices and intelligent manufacturing technologies; 68 projects won in the Medicine and Health-Saving Technologies direction, 66 – in the Creative Industries direction, 56 are related to chemical technologies and new materials, 45 – to biotechnologies, and 38 – to resource-saving energy.
