The joint Ioffe FTI Accelerator and the Lappeenrant University of Technology (Finland) will take place from January to April 2020.To participate in Accelerator the application must be submitted before December 31, 2019. To do this, complete the application form on our website.Once we receive the application, we will review it within 5 business days and contact you.If we are successful, we will also agree to a meeting with you, which will result in a final decision to enroll you in the Accelerator.Education at Accelerator is free, but we treat our business responsibly, which we expect from you as well.This means that project teams enrolled in Accelerator will have to within four months of Accelerator 's operation:Take an active part in Accelerator activities - training, project testing, seminars and meetings.to find time which you will have to allocate - for work in the group (group of the project over the project), for online-training (webinars, self-education, discussions), for offline-training (weekly seminars).Clearly follow Accelerator 's schedule, format and methods of operation, as well as perform homework and course work in time.

22-24 October 2019 all project team from Ioffe Institute and NPBSF Project Coordinator from LUT – Erkki Lähderanta - took participation in the PhysicA.SPb conference. International conferencePhysicA.SPb has been holding from 1997 year and covers all areas. NPBSF team participated in organization “Elevator pitch” section this year where innovative and R&D projects leaders presented their achievements and commercialization potential by 1 minute presentations. Contacts of more than 60 applicable projects leaders have been collected. These projects will be examined by the experts and invited to NPBSF accelerator with the results of those expertises. 

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October 3-4 held kick-off seminar of joint Accelerator FTI named after Ioffe and Lappenrant University of Technology 

27 September 2019 Head of Acceleration programme under NPBSF - Alexey Tolmachev – took participation in the Demo day of Accelerator under ITMO University. Audience acquaintance with NPBSF acceleration programme and provided by it opportunities were conducted through participation as well as contacts of potential NPBSF accelerator participants were collected. 

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7-12 July 2019 NPBSF Project Coordinator - Alexey Udovichenko – and NPBSF Methodologist - Marat Udovichenko – took participation in the “Forsage - 2019”. 

Forum as experts and jury members of corporate acceleration programmes of leading Russian companies: RosAtom, LenEnergo, Central Bank of Russia, SIBUR, Rosseti, Gazprom (Mosoblgaz), RusHydro. NPBSF acceleration programme and provided by it opportunities was presented to more than 500 people and representatives of participating companies. Preliminary selection of companies and teams for participation in NPBSF accelerator has been conducted as a result. 

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2-7 June 2019 NPBSF Project Coordinator - Alexey Udovichenko – and NPBSF Methodologist - Marat Udovichenko – took participation in the School of Technology Leadership (STL) as experts and members of the jury. There were conducted corporate acceleration programmes of leading Russian companies – SIBUR, Rosseti, Gazprom (Mosoblgaz), RusHydro - under the STL. 

New contacts of mentioned corporate acceleration programmes leaders were received through participation as well as agreements for collaboration with NPBSF accelerator for development of the projects with high potential on the area of South-East Finland - Russia CBC Programme 2014-2020 were achieved. 

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