INNOVATIVE CENTER "ISKRA" LIMITED

The National Award "Hope for Technology" was awarded

The National Award In the innovation center Skolkovo within the framework of the National Forum of Rehabilitation Industry and Universal Design "Hope for Technology", the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia awarded the National Award "Hope for Technology" to Russian companies recognized as the best among producers and developers of technical means of rehabilitation and assistive technologies for 2016.

In the nomination "For Contribution to the Development and Promotion of Rehabilitation Technologies and Universal Design", the award was awarded to the "Center Disturbing Button" from Moscow with the "Life Button" project.

In the nomination "The Best Socially-oriented Project in the Sphere of Rehabilitation Technologies and Devices in 2016", the winners in the nomination of the project for the creation of high-tech rehabilitation tools and techniques for upper limb prosthetics for children under 16 years of Motorika (Moscow) and the project for the production and development wheelchair-transformer with an electric drive of the Novosibirsk company "Katervil".

For his personal contribution to the development and promotion of rehabilitation technologies and universal design in 2016, the National Prize "Hope for Technology" was awarded to Ivan Biryukov, General Director of the ANO "Technology of Opportunities".

The winners of the nominations were determined by the final vote of the members of the working group of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia on the issue of expanding production for disabled people and elderly people.

In the main nomination "For contribution to the development and promotion of rehabilitation technologies and universal design", the Neuro system of cochlear implantation was presented by Istok Audio International (Fryazino, Moscow region), the "Button of life" project of the "Center The alarm button" on the production of components for prostheses of the lower extremities of the company "Metiz Impex" (Moscow).

In the nomination "The Best Socially-oriented Project in the Sphere of Rehabilitation Technologies and Devices in 2016", a project was presented on the creation of high-tech rehabilitation tools and techniques in the field of upper limb prosthetics of Motorika, the Talking City project of STP-Engineering Petersburg) and the project for the production and development of a wheelchair-transformer with an electric drive of the company Caterville.

The nominees for the prize "For Personal Contribution to the Development and Promotion of Rehabilitation Technologies and Universal Design in 2016" were Vladimir Novikov, Director of Research, LLC "PRO MP Ortez", Artashes Sarafaslanyan, General Director of Iskra Innovation Center and General Director of ANO "Opportunity Technologies" Ivan Biryukov.