A meeting of the university and school students with Ulyanovsk Region Governor Sergey Morozov and Catholic University of Leuven R&D Center Director Martin Hinoul took place within the scope of the Youth Day at the International Renewable Energy Forum ARWE 2019.

"We have an extraordinary opportunity to look into the future. I know how you will live and what will surround you. I know that we are all going to live in an ecologically clean region, that you will be accompanied with a host of technological machines, and you will live at a many times higher pace than I do," shared Sergey Morozov during his meeting with the young people. "I know this because my team which now heads the Ulyanovsk Region and I, personally, were for many years supported by a unique person who can turn science fiction into reality. Around himself, he has "made" a multitude of people who are sure of themselves; he made them dollar millionaires who have built their fortunes on technology entrepreneurship, on transformation of knowledge into the material values. And I am talking now about Martin Hinoul."

The acclaimed scientist and author of numerous books on business technology delivered a lecture on successful experience in the technological cluster for the young Ulyanovsk audience and answered plenty of questions raised by the students.

"This is not the first time I am in Ulyanovsk. The future today belongs to knowledge. We need breakthrough economy, and it is driven by the market. I can tell you at once that you will not work in Russia, Europe, or the US as countries. You will work in a focused, field-specific region. This is exactly the task Ulyanovsk is currently facing. Although the task is not a simple one, I am confident that you can accomplish it," said Martin Hinoul.

Around 300 school and university students from Ulyanovsk State University, Ulyanovsk State Agrarian University, Ulyanovsk State Technical University, and I.N. Ulyanov Ulyanovsk State Pedagogical University visited ARWE 2019 Forum during the Youth Day. For those who were not able to attend personally, the event was directly broadcast to the official arwe-expo.ru website and to the local television channel UlPravda TV https://ulpravda.ru/tv.

24 May, the final day of the Forum, was extremely eventful and multidisciplinary. The Business Program included discussion of electric cars development prospects and of establishing a science and education center in renewable energy within the framework of Nauka national project.

The Forum's Lecture Hall hosted an open lecture by Evgeny Zakhlebayev, the first Russian sunmobile designer. The region's head Sergey Morozov personally tested Tesla electric car while students visited the Solar Regatta engineering competition presentation.

Over the three days of work, ARWE 2019 Forum based in Ulyanovsk Nanotechnology Сenter received more than 1000 visitors including the Youth Day participants. The core program comprised 18 events in a variety of formats, such as the plenary meeting, panel sessions, lectures, meetings of industry specialists etc.

ARWE 2019 accommodated over 55 B2B meetings in the scope of the Supplier Forum. Five cooperation agreements have been signed.

ARWE 2019 Renewable Energy Forum was visited by representatives of such global brands as Vestas, Fortum, Total, Shell, Allianz Insurance Group, DHL, Siemens Gamesa, Shanghai Ghrepower Green Energy Co Ltd, Greenpeace, Hytorc, 3M, Liebherr, Mitsui & Co Ltd, Baker & McKenzie CIS Ltd etc.

The event was organized by the Government of Ulyanovsk Region, the Ulyanovsk Region Agency for Technological Development, the Russian Association of Wind Industry (RAWI), and JSC Electrification with the support of the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, Roscongress Foundation and ULNANOTECH.