The educational day of the International INNOSIB Forum is taking place in Omsk today.

Educational and familiarization events will be held on October 19 at the request of foreign guests and nonresident participants.

This year, the educational program of the Forum includes 10 master classes at the site of the regional Business incubator and 7 field trips to social project locations. Experts from Lugansk, Krasnoyarsk and Blagoveshchensk will teach classes on transformational games, effective project management and family agribusiness. At 12 o'clock, an imitation game on ecology will begin according to the methodology of specialists from Kursk. At the same time, in another audience, a consultant from Nepal will present the experience of attracting consumers of social services. After 14 hours, an expert from Kazakhstan will give advice on how to organize the sustainable operation of social enterprises, and the trainer of the Senezh Management Workshop will talk about the basics of personal effectiveness and the accumulation of "social capital". A professor from Moscow will speak to students of the Faculty of Culture of Omsk State University on the development of creative industries.

The Business Incubator will launch a study tour for guests from the Donetsk People's Republic who want to learn about the implementation of projects in the Irtysh region on proactive budgeting, ecology and innovations in agronomy. Anatoly Solovyov, Chairman of the Commission on Ecology and Environmental Protection of the Omsk Region Public Chamber, proposed a route in a southerly direction. Nadezhda Shulga, head of the administration of the Irtysh rural settlement of Cherlak district, will show how the village has been transformed on the initiative and with the participation of residents, how the Resource Center for Supporting Social Entrepreneurs and NGOs works, and will tell how the tasks of collecting and recycling secondary waste are solved. This project was presented at the INNOSIB-2017 forum, where it was highly appreciated by experts. The discussion of garbage collection and disposal issues will continue at a seminar for parishioners of the Achair Monastery. At the request of Pavel Mironov, a graduate of the School of Social Entrepreneurship in Donbass, an activist of the DPR Civic Chamber, the group will visit the Strawberry Dome greenhouse site, where Omsk entrepreneurs grow thermophilic crops using innovative technologies. Pavel Mironov is an experienced plant breeder, heads the trade union of local farmers and creates a "School of young agronomists" in the village of Andreevka near Donbass. He will present his colleagues from Omsk with chufa seeds, a type of almond that may take root in Siberia.

The authors and participants of socio-cultural projects from the Lugansk and Donetsk People's Republics and a delegation from Egypt, led by the head of the Cairo Opera House Hovaida Eid Mahamed, will get acquainted with the cultural sights of Omsk. A large group of activists from the Union of Women of Russia from regional offices and the organization's office will meet with Irina Varnavskaya, Deputy Minister of Labor and Social Development of the Omsk Region, who will introduce the guests to the work of the Women's Club. There will be something to discuss with the heads and leaders of the Public Chambers of the Omsk region, Lugansk and Donetsk People's Republics, who will meet at the RCSO site. Irina Kovaleva, a graduate of the School of Social Entrepreneurship in Donbass, Candidate of Medical Sciences, who, after an internship in Omsk, opened a Center for the recovery of soldiers from wounds in Lugansk, will get acquainted with innovative medical technologies at the Botticelli Clinic.

In the evening, an interested conversation about the implementation of partner projects by residents of the Cluster of Social Innovations will take place at the Formula of Life School of Assistance with the participation of experts from Moscow Yulia Zhigulina (Director of the Fund for Regional Social Programs "Our Future") and Alexey Maslov (Director of the Department of Acceleration and Educational Programs of the Fund for Support of Social Projects). The Omsk Social Cluster is the only association of social entrepreneurs and SONKO in the country, created in 2018 by the Omsk CISS with the assistance of the regional Ministry of Economy to provide affordable and high–quality social services to the population. Their monthly recipients are 12.5 thousand people.

According to the CISS, 849 types of services were provided by Cluster residents in the first half of 2023. The INNOSIB forum is being held from October 19 to 21 as part of the national project "Small and Medium-sized Enterprises". The key day of the forum will be held on October 20.