OREANDA-NEWS. In the course of the Forum there was a ceremony to present the contest winners with Development Award instituted by Vnesheconombank.

The Development Award is presented to legal entities for their outstanding merits in implementing nationally significant investment programs and projects.

The laureates of the first Development Award are:
* In the nomination “the Best Infrastructure Project – the project “Development of Industrial Parks Infrastructure in the Kaluga Region”: “Forming an Automobile and Auto-Component Manufacturing Cluster, OJSC the Kaluga Region Development Corporation”;
* In the nomination “the Best Project in Industrial Sectors” – the project “Launching the Production of New Generation Freight Wagons”, CJSC the Tikhvin Wagon Works;
* In the nomination “the Best Project on the Comprehensive Development of Territories’ – “Construction of a Satellite Town of Kemerovo “Lesnaya Polyana”, Association of Construction Organizations Promstroy;
* In the nomination “the Best Project of Small and Medium-Size Enterprises” – the project “Reconstruction of the Heating System the City Bakal, the Satkinsky District of the Chelyabinsk region, LLC Ural Energo Development”.

The contest was held in two stages. All the applications (220 applications were submitted) were evaluated by the contest committee which was comprised of 28 experts – competent specialists in economics and investments. In the course of the contest 14 nominee projects were selected. They represented various regions and economic sectors of the country. In May of 2013, VEB’s Supervisory Board approved 4 laureates of the Development Award out of them.