A two-day Forum "Strong Ideas for the New Age" has begun at the National Centre RUSSIA

On July 2, the two-day Forum "Strong Ideas for the New Age" started at the National Centre RUSSIA. In 2025, over 35,000 applications for participation in the forum were submitted. The experts who worked on the platform idea.Roscongress.rf selected among them only 1000 the most promising ideas aimed at improving the citizens' quality of life, as well as ensuring the technological and industrial sovereignty of the country. Further, the expert council of Association for Strategic Initiatives (ASI) will select 100 ideas, the best of which will be presented to the country's leaders on July 3.

The forum is organized by ASI, the Roscongress Foundation and VEB.RF. The strategic partner of the forum is PJSC "ROSSETI". A communication partner is  MAER media holding. The partners are PJSC "Bank PSB", GC "Renova", JSC "Russian Railways". Sponsor of  organization is JSC "Rosselkhozbank".

You can view the ideas which are already among the best ones on the website idea .Roscongress.Russia, using the "top-1000" filter in each of the areas of interest.

"Strong Ideas for the New Age" is a forum built on the concept of a constant moving forward. Today we see that the ideas presented here go a path from conception to implementation. The forum itself is being transformed along with the demands of society. This year we have over 35,000 new ideas, the most powerful of which are drivers of the real change," said Anton Kobyakov, Adviser to President of the Russian Federation.

In 2025, the forum received applications in five areas of ASI's activities. These areas dealt with the following  national initiatives: social, entrepreneurial, human capital, technological, environmental, and climate ones. Like it was before, the organizers of the forum, together with partners and regional authorities, will continue to provide various types of support to the winning projects: from finding business contacts and organizing presentations to investors to information promotion.

Ten most popular topics in terms of the number of applications submitted this year were:

• Instilling values and shaping a healthy lifestyle.

• New technologies in medicine, education, and social assistance.

• Development of youth's readiness for family life; support for young families; assistance in strengthening the institution of the family; preservation and promotion of traditional family and spiritual and moral Russian values in society.

• Increasing fertility, support for families and large families, corporate programs to support workers with children.

• The restoration of villages and hamlets.

• Support for the participants of the SVO and their families.

• Support for local products and brands.

• Cultural programming: creative projects which develop the territory.

• New technologies, AI solutions for business and entrepreneurship.

• Developing an ecologically healthy environment in human settlements.

The forum "Strong Ideas for the New Age" is being held for the fifth time. For several years, about 600,000 people have registered on the forum's crowd platform idea.Roscongress.rf, and over 120,000 ideas have been submitted by participants. Maxim Oreshkin, Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation, is the Chairman of the Forum's organizing Committee. 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.

The Forum is a platform that allows to accumulate ideas and proposals from citizens from all over the country, and to establish promising projects in respect of development of Russia. The goal is to select and implement strong ideas which will make a significant contribution to the development of the country and the achievement of national goals.