UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 3, 2018. ProyekTY, a social skills school in Pervouralsk that was created at ChelPipe Group’s initiative, coordinated the final presentations of the school’s first alumni in the children and teen group, the company’s press service reports.

The high school and college students presented twenty business ideas that all had an important social input.Four projects made it to the finals. Presenters in the young adult/adult group are going to defend their projects on December 17; the best proposals will be granted special funding.

ProyekTY Social Skills School started training sessions for its students (two age groups all in all) in 2018. The key goal is to improve the financial literacy of aspiring and actual business men and women and helping them create actual startups. To receive further support, a business project must have some significant social relevance.

‘ChelPipe Group is willing to support the most needed business ideas, that is, projects that aim to improve the locals’ living standards. I’m sure the school will provide a great springboard for the socially responsible business development,’ says ChelPipe Group’s Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant’s Managing Director Alexei Dronov.