A seminar on "The organization of public-private partnerships in the Volga Federal Region" was held

 Tatarstan Investment Development Agency jointly with the State Corporation "Bank for Development and Foreign Economic Affairs (Vnesheconombank)" and JSC "Federal Center for Project Finance" held a seminar on "The organization of public-private partnerships in the Volga Federal Region" on 26 November 2014.

The seminar was attended by about 70 representatives of state and local governments, development institutions and the business community of the seven regions of the Volga region (Republic of Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, Udmurtia, Mordovia, Chuvashia republic, Saratov and Ulyanovsk region).

Opening the seminar, Tatarstan Investment Development Agency Chief Executive Taliya Minullina underscored the importance of public-private partnership to solve the problems of creation and modernization of the state and municipal infrastructure and implementation of social policy.

Among the speakers were experts of Vnesheconombank divisions, experts from leading consulting organizations and companies with experience implementing investment projects with financial participation of Vnesheconombank.

In the seminar discussed various aspects of public-private partnership: the legal, organizational economic aspects, discussed the basic usage of PPP models. On the example of PPP projects implemented in St. Petersburg and Nizhny Novgorod region, highlighted issues of projects tracking.

In addition, by the representatives of "Vnesheconombank" were presented the basic principles of Bank support for PPP projects.

In the final part of a seminar held a video conference with the experts of "Federal Center for Project Finance", during which they discussed the practical application of PPPs for infrastructure development and integrated development of territories.

The seminar was the third training event organized by the Agency in 2014 on the subject of public-private partnerships. The need for training of civil servants and representatives of business with the PPP management was noted by the President of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov at a meeting of the Investment Council of the Republic of Tatarstan on March 1, 2014.

Organization of training activities on the development of investment sector is one of the important tasks of the Agency.