A team of young robotics engineers from Moscow swept the 8th all-Russian robotics festival RoboFest held by Volnoe Delo Oleg Deripaska Foundation and the Russian Ministry of Education and Science on April 12-15. Teams from Saint-Petersburg and Krasnodar region took second and third places respectively. The festival was also supported by the Agency for strategic initiatives. GAZ group and En+ company (both are part of Basic Element group) were strategic partners of the event. 

The 4th international Lean summit organized by Volnoe Delo Foundation, Japanese Kaizen center in Krasnodar region and MSU Business school closed at the Imeretinskiy hotel in Sochi. More than 300 Russian and international participants exchanged their experience of using lean technologies at the production facilities. A trilateral agreement on human resource development in Russia was also signed.

Volnoe Delo Oleg Deripaska Foundation, one of the largest private charities in Russia, announces that Russian archaeologists working at the site of an ancient Greek city of Phanagoria near the Black Sea, have found traces of a violent coup on the territory of Phanagoria that used to be the capital of the Kingdom of Bosporus in the 5th-4th century BC.

The first republican professional skills championship among schoolchildren will be held in Belarus in May 2016 as a part of the JuniorSkills program. The decision to hold the competition was made, following the workshop JuniorSkills: new approaches to career guidance that took place in Minsk on October 13.

The 10^th science festival NAUKA 0+ was held in Moscow on October 9-11. Volnoe Delo Oleg Deripaska Foundation was a general partner of the event.

Volnoe Delo Oleg Deripaska foundation was a general partner of the 5^th All-Russia science festival Nauka 0+ that took place in Krasnoyarsk on October 2-4.

Vladimir Putin has signed a list of instructions aimed at support and development of the WorldSkills movement in Russia. According to the document, JuniorSkills competition tailored for children aged 10-17, must become a part of WorldSkills.