The Foundation announces the results of two grant competitions under the auspices of the museum professional exchange program Museum Bridges.
He talked about this with the TASS correspondent Andrey Vandenko during the interview 6 July 2015: ‘The volume of my charity support is increasing. From this year on, the budget for my charitable activities, including my Foundation equals 1 billion rubles and it will increase in the years to come.’
The second cohort of students have successfully completed the Russian International Olympic University’s flagship course of further professional education, achieving their Master of Sport Administration (MSA) qualifications.
5 June 2015, Moscow, the Wealth Transformation Center (Skolkovo Moscow School of Management) and the Vladimir Potanin Foundation hosted a joint expert discussion ‘The Future of Private Philanthropy’ aimed to share experiences of private foundations both in Russia and abroad.
On 26 May 2015 at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) an award ceremony will take place for participants of the professional traineeships program for MGIMO students.
11–14 June 2015 the Vladimir Potanin Foundation holds the Museum Guide Forum, an annual event that brings together all of the Foundation’s museum programs.
The Foundation’s experience and program results were introduced as a model technology in the largest higher educational institution of the US capital.
One year anniversary of the Russian Lounge. In 2011 Vladimir Potanin made a donation to the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to celebrate the Center’s forty year anniversary. As a result of the collaboration between the Foundation and the Center with the support of the Embassy of the Russia to the US a reconstruction of the largest Lounge of the Center took place.
Russian nominee for the European Museum of the Year Award. In 2013 the Perm Museum won the Potanin Foundation grant within the Program A Changing Museum in a Changing World for its project Discover the Permian Period.
The European Foundation Centre, located in Brussels, hosted Culture As an Ambassador to Connect People roundtable organized by the Foundation in partnership with Robert Bosch Foundation.