OREANDA-NEWS. October 24, 2011. As part of implementing the educational project “Training of Specialists – Participants in Investment Projects Implemented with the Assistance of Development Institutions”, Vnesheconombank held a workshop “Vnesheconombank: Development Projects of the Siberian Federal District”.

In the attendance of the workshop were more than 50 representatives of the Siberian Federal District’s business community as well as representatives of the District regions’ government and municipal authorities.

Welcoming addresses were given to the workshop’s participants by Krasnoyarsk Territory Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Gnezdilov, Chief Federal Inspector of the Presidential Envoy Office in the Siberian Federal District Ivan Goncharov, Deputy Minister of Investments and Innovations of the Krasnoyarsk Territory Andrei Tregubov, Director of Vnesheconombank’s Bank Operations Management Directorate Sergei Noskov and Director of Vnesheconombank’s Regional Policies Department Sergei Astafurov.

In the course of the workshop representatives of Vnesheconombank’s Group spoke of Vnesheconombank’s top-priority lines of activity in the Siberian Federal District, told the workshop’s participants in great length about principles and criteria of selecting investment projects at Vnesheconombank, SME Bank’s programs designed to support small and medium-sized enterprises and gave examples of Vnesheconombank’s investment projects in the sectors that are of great importance for the Siberian Federal District as well as projects implemented by the Bank with the use of PPP mechanisms.

During the round-table discussion “Investments Potential of the Siberian Federal District” the workshop’s participants were especially interested in presentations and discussions of projects that have been already successfully implemented and are scheduled to be implemented with Vnesheconombank’s participation. The Bank’s potential borrowers were given practical recommendations by representatives of Vnesheconombank’s Group on finalizing potential projects.

In conclusion of the workshop its participants said that it was necessary to boost investment literacy of young specialists and students of the country’s leading universities. As a result of the workshop a decision was made to hold a competition for doing a practical training at Vnesheconombank and at its subsidiary banks. Vnesheconombank’s Representative Office in Krasnoyarsk is to be responsible for selecting the competition’s participants.