Norilsk Nickel has presented the results of the second season of its GR-Accelerator (Government Relations) program aimed at the development of investment projects for small and medium-sized businesses to the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RUIE) in Moscow.
The participants of the program, which was implemented from September to December 2023, included representatives of municipalities, resource supply organizations, territorial development agencies and business communities.
The projects under consideration concerned private investments in the fields of medicine, ecology, ski tourism and winter sports in Norilsk, as well as in the functionality and services sectors in the Murmansk region, the press service of Norilsk Nickel reported.
In his welcoming speech, RUIE president Alexander Shokhin noted the importance of creating an environment for the growth of small and medium-sized businesses, including by means of investments from large businesses - Norilsk Nickel in particular.
Andrey Grachev, Vice President of Norilsk Nickel, for his part, stressed that the GR-Accelerator project is aimed at reducing the distance between small and medium-sized businesses and government representatives. "The accelerator is an intensive course in order to show how it happens in our company," he said.
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