Results of the 5th Forum "Strong Ideas for a New Age"

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The 5th Forum "Strong Ideas for a New Age", which was held on July 2-3, 2025 at the National Centre RUSSIA, summed up the results of its work. The event was organized by Agency for Strategic Initiatives (ASI) and Roscongress Foundation in cooperation with VEB.RF. It brought together more than 1,500 participants. The key goal of the forum is to select and implement promising ideas which will make a significant contribution to the development of the country.

The main event of the forum was a plenary session, where President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin made a speech. He noted that the high public mission of the forum is to work on the development of talents and on the enormous creative potential of Russian citizens.

"In recent years, we have managed to build a unique platform, a unique development mechanism for particular industries, for production, for our economy as a whole, and thus, for the whole of Russia. I would like to note that every year, thousands of the best ideas get a firm support. The teams and leaders who suggested them are provided with educational and methodological assistance necessary for their further development. And 100 of the most significant initiatives are being sent to the government, ministries, departments, and regions of the Russian Federation to be used for working out the system solutions," said Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The best ideas were presented to President of the Russian Federation during the plenary session of the forum. The project leaders are researchers, employees of agricultural and environmental non-profit sector, as well as representatives of cultural and creative field.

The suggested solutions regarded such topics as: control of water consumption and planting of forest belts; production of an innovative management system for natural resources using drones; development of artificial intelligence and cloud technologies; creation of modular pipe inspection robots; implementation and promotion of a network of inclusive film clubs.

"We have been holding this forum for five years, this year is its first anniversary. ASI and partners support the ideas. For example, VEB assists the projects via tools of its ecosystem. For this purpose, it applies "MSP" Corporation and Russian Export Centre. Also, for our participants, “Sber” organizes accelerators every year. During two previous seasons, more than 200 tech startups at various stages also received support. Annually, Roscongress Foundation invites the top 100 leaders of ideas to take part in the major forums, in particular such forums as the SPIEF, the Eastern Economic Forum, the Arctic Forum, and others. Thanks to our information partners, millions of people in our country learned about the forum and the leaders of ideas," said Svetlana Chupsheva, Director General of Agency for Strategic Initiatives.

The annual periodicity of the forum "Strong Ideas for a New Age" highlights the effectiveness of its work mechanisms: it selects the most promising ideas aimed to improve the quality of life of people, and to promote national goals. The idea laid as a foundation of the forum has already gathered a community of thousands of initiative citizens.

"The crowd platform idea.Roscongress.rf, via which promising ideas are collected and evaluated, is not just a technological tool, but a powerful mechanism for identifying initiatives that can bring real benefits. The best projects receive comprehensive support, from presenting to investors to information promotion. This support comes from development institutions at the federal and regional levels, from administrations of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, and from partners. Over the years of the forum operation, about 600,000 people have already registered on the crowd platform, and the total number of submitted ideas has exceeded 120,000. This confirms the high level of civic engagement. Implementation of the strongest ideas into the real socio‑economic agenda is ensured by participation in the forum of federal and regional authorities, NGOs and leading experts ensures. Thus, strong projects are implemented through joint efforts. The authors become participants of the largest international business events: these are the SPIEF, the Eastern Economic Forum, and the Youth Scientific Congress. Great opportunities are open for them," said Anton Kobyakov, Advisor to President of the Russian Federation and Executive Secretary of the Forum's Organizing Committee.

This year, the forum received more than 35,000 ideas in five areas of ASI's activities. These activities included social, entrepreneurial, human capital, technological, environmental and climate national initiatives. The social area has become the most popular again, having collected almost half of the total number of ideas.

"We will present 100 the most important ideas to the Government of the Russian Federation in order to work them through with the departments. We'll take the most important initiatives which can work as ready business plans for our "VEB.RF" development group (MSP, Russian Export Centre, and other organizations), and we'll take a look at the most important initiatives which can be promoted at the Eastern Forum. For example, we have collected a lot of ideas regarding the water resources. These include environmental protection, new energy, new technologies to provide large cities where rivers flow with modern transportation. After evaluating the proposals of the forum participants, development organizations may become interested in the projects of "Economy Around Water" kind," emphasized Chairman of "VEB.RF" Igor Shuvalov.

The business program of the first day included discussion sessions and presentations of initiatives. Among the attendees there were leaders of ideas-2025, and leaders of previous years who had already successfully presented their projects. During the sessions, they exchanged practices and developed new approaches to implementation of significant public projects.                 

In total, more than 1,500 people from 10 countries took part in the event: Germany, India, Kazakhstan, the United Arab Emirates, the Republic of Cyprus, Russia, the USA, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Switzerland. Among the participants were about 800 representatives of Russian and foreign businesses from more than 600 organizations, as well as governors and heads of republics. At the same time, more than 2.5 million people watched the online broadcasts.

Heads of organizations, foundations, development institutes, centers for inclusive practices, and charitable organizations also took part in the forum program. A key aspect of the discussions focused on how social, technological, human capital, environmental and community projects can systematically improve the quality of life of thousands of people.

At the forum, experts selected 300 most promising projects from a 1000 of previously approved initiatives, and then picked the top 100 out of those 300. These are the second and the third stages of the forum finalists’ selection.

You can learn more about these and other projects on the website of the crowd platform Idea.Roscongress.rf, using a filter: "top 1000", "300" and "100" in each of the selected areas.

During the event, Vladimir Putin visited the exposition provided by participants of a competition of growing Russian brands "Know Ours", which is being held for the third time. This year, the results of the competition broke the record of previous years: more than 14 thousand applications were received.

The strategic partner of the forum is PJSC "ROSSETI". The communication partner is "MAER" media holding. The partners are PJSC "Bank PSB", "Renova" Group of Companies, JSC "Russian Railways". A sponsor of event organization is JSC "Rosselkhozbank".

The Forum "Strong Ideas for a New Age" was held for the fifth time. This year it was held at the National Centre RUSSIA. The Forum is held annually in accordance with Presidential Decree No. 899 dated December 8, 2022, in order to support and implement citizens' initiatives for development of the country.