First-year students competed in an entrepreneurial competition

09:39, October 11, 2023

IEB newbies are back in business!

20 teams of first-year students of bachelor’s programme “International Economics and Business” took part in the “Entrepreneurial Competition” as part of the federal program for the development of youth entrepreneurship “I’m in business” with the support of the “Captains” charity foundation.

During the event at the Boiling Point site (Tocka Kipenia) in the Yeltsin Center, 100 students immersed themselves in the game business simulator “Market and Capital”, practiced entrepreneurial competencies, solved various investment problems, working in teams and demonstrating analytical thinking skills.

The top 3 teams included:

1st place - team “Yessss”: Nihad Veliyev, Umedzhan Nurulloev, Vladislav Kazakov, Artemy Shestakov

2nd place - “Feathered”: Danil Sinitsyn, Denis Merzlyakov, Daniil Malukhin, Anyl Dzhikhangir

3rd place - “Boosty”: Lev Yudin, Egor Pozdeev, Anton Shenkman, Polina Yanushite

We congratulate the guys and wish them new victories, including in the next stages! Based on the results of the event, all participants had the opportunity to move to the next stage, namely to participate in the “Entrepreneurial Course” from “I’m in Business”.

Ural Federal University is one of the leading universities in Russia founded in 1920. UrFU is located in Yekaterinburg, the capital of the Ural region, an economic, industrial, scientific and cultural center of Russia. The university is the project office of the Ural Interregional Research and Education Center "Advanced Industrial Technologies and Materials" designed for solving tasks of "Science" National Project.