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Create a miracle with your own hands

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Children's Library No. 242 invites young readers and their parents to a comprehensive event "Create a miracle with your own hands", dedicated to the 125th anniversary of the birth of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. The children will be introduced to a children's encyclopedia, shown a video presentation and told that planet Earth was formed more than four billion years ago.

Guests will also learn about the book "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and will finally take part in a master class where they will create a craft with their own hands.

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Driverless transport of the future: Polytechnic University receives grant for joint research with China

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Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University has won a grant from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation to conduct scientific research jointly with Huazhong University of Science and Technology (Wuhan, China).

The project “Advanced technologies of interactive multi-agent interaction and control for an intelligent cyber-physical system under conditions of uncertainty for transport systems” is led by Vyacheslav Shkodyrev, Director of the Scientific and Technological Complex “Mathematical Modeling and Intelligent Control Systems”.

The main objective of the project is to improve the efficiency of group control of the interaction of distributed industrial unmanned vehicles, as well as their autonomous operation, using new methods and models of multi-objective optimization based on the concept of intellectualization of cyber-physical systems with the architecture of interacting cognitive-learning agents to achieve a common strategic control goal.

As technology advances, the application of intelligent cyber-physical systems is becoming more widespread in such industries as smart transportation, industrial automation, manufacturing logistics, etc. However, in complex and unknown environments, these systems face a number of limitations, including insufficient autonomous intelligence, unbalanced task distribution, low collaboration performance, and limited rational decision-making capabilities. Scientists will work to address these and other issues to provide technological support for the efficient operation of intelligent cyber-physical systems.

It is planned to use the advantages of the two universities in research on interactive technologies of multi-criteria search and control, in particular in research on the operation of intelligent cyber-physical systems under uncertainty. One of their tasks is to optimize large language models using data obtained from jointly developed adequate simulation models in combination with real data. This should ensure the generation of effective decompositions into subtasks and more accurate schemes for distributing complex tasks, which, together with cognitive control methods, will lead to the formation of safe and effective schemes for autonomous planning and control when performing multiple tasks.

This is important for the intellectual development of vehicle control systems in industrial and other conditions. The practical significance of the project also lies in the fact that its results can be used not only in industry, but also to ensure public safety and in the elimination of the consequences of natural disasters.

The project is designed for 2.5 years. Scientists plan to combine their knowledge in the field of artificial intelligence and control to create innovative solutions in the field of unmanned transport.

This grant is an important victory that opens up new opportunities for international collaboration. The implementation of the project will allow us to combine the advanced scientific approaches of the two countries to develop innovative solutions in the field of industrial unmanned transport systems management, – commented Vice-Rector for Research Yuri Fomin.

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Since January, almost 700 urban development plans for educational facilities have been issued in the capital

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From January to June 2025, almost 700 urban development plans for land plots (GPZU) for the construction of educational facilities were issued in the capital. This was reported by the Deputy Mayor of Moscow for Urban Development Policy and Construction Vladimir Efimov.

"In the first six months of 2025, 686 urban development plans for land plots for the construction of educational facilities were issued in Moscow. This is five percent more than in the same period last year. The increase in the number of issued documents indicates an increased interest in the development of preschool and school education infrastructure. The largest number of urban development plans in January-June 2025 were issued in the Central and Novomoskovsky administrative districts – 129 and 122 units, respectively," said Vladimir Efimov.

Moscow continues to work on optimizing the procedures for drawing up urban planning documentation in order to increase their accessibility and convenience for citizens and business representatives. All services can now be obtained electronically through the mos.ru portal, which significantly reduces the time for preparing and coordinating projects.

"The city continues to improve approaches to interaction with applicants, ensuring transparency and efficiency of the procedure for registration of urban development plans for land plots. The largest number of urban development plans for the first six months of 2025 were issued in the Basmanny – 21 – and Tagansky – 19 districts," she noted.

Juliana Knyazhevskaya, Chairman of the Committee on Architecture and Urban Development.

Earlier, Sergei Sobyanin said that construction of a kindergarten in Ochakovo-Matveevsky will be completed in 2026.

The construction of social facilities in Moscow corresponds to the goals and initiatives of the national project "Infrastructure for life."

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China Red Cross Society sends task force, relief supplies to flood-hit Beijing area

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BEIJING, July 29 (Xinhua) — The Red Cross Society of China (RCSC) said Tuesday it has sent a working team to Beijing's Miyun District to assist in disaster relief efforts.

Based on reports of heavy rain and flooding from the Beijing Red Cross Society, the BRCS launched a special emergency response on Monday, sending 2,000 relief kits for families to flood-hit areas to assist local Red Cross organizations in relocating and resettling affected residents, the BRCS said.

Beijing authorities have launched a rescue operation as heavy rains have killed 30 people as of midnight Monday, damaged roads, disrupted power supplies and forced mass evacuations.

The fatalities were recorded in the northern mountainous areas of the Chinese capital, with 28 people killed in the Miyun district and two in the Yanqing district. -0-

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Young people in SCO countries are interested in Chinese popular culture

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TIANJIN, July 29 (Xinhua) — David Kolosov, a Russian doctoral student at the Institute of International Relations of Peking University, answered reporters' questions in Chinese fluently at the SCO Dialogue of Civilizations 2025 in recent days. When asked about Chinese pop culture, he immediately enthusiastically mentioned the game "Black Myth: Wukong", saying that the Chinese game is very popular. He believes that games and other forms of pop culture are becoming a new window for the world to get to know China.

According to the Global Soft Power Index 2025 report released by the British institution, China's soft power has already risen to second place in the world. In recent years, Chinese pop culture has attracted the attention of the world. With a creative combination of modern and traditional elements, and the support of social media and digital platforms, Chinese online literature, web series and online games, as well as films, clothing, music and other cultural products, have gained increasing popularity among audiences around the world.

Devinder Kumar, an Indian expert at the Communication Center for Central-Eastern Europe and Central-South Asia under the Foreign Languages Administration of China, believes that the game “Black Myth: Wukong” deeply combines traditional myths and digital technology, giving a new life to the classics in the gaming world.

Games are gradually becoming one of the important means for overseas youth groups to experience Chinese culture. In 2024, the actual sales revenue of games developed in China in overseas markets was US$18.557 billion, up 13.39 percent year-on-year.

Cinema is also an important form of cultural exchange and mutual borrowing between civilizations. D. Kolosov shared with journalists his impressions of watching the film “Nezha 2” with his Chinese friends: “I really liked the film, it helped me better understand traditional Chinese myths and Eastern philosophy.”

Zafar Uddin Mahmood, former special assistant to the Pakistani prime minister, who attended the forum, said, “About two months ago, the ‘China Film Festival’ was held in our city. At that time, many people came to watch the films and many young people were even ready to queue for hours to buy tickets. This shows enough that Chinese culture crosses borders and is widely spread among the youth.”

At the thematic sub-forum on multi-format exchange in the visual arts within the framework of the “Dialogue of Civilizations among the SCO countries 2025”, Devinder Kumar shared his experience of participating in the filming in Dunhuang and said that with the popularization of visual media, young creators are using film, video and digital platforms to build a “bridge of friendship” that crosses national boundaries.

Not only games, movies, web series, short videos, mini-series… more and more Chinese pop culture products are becoming popular overseas.

Adel Baktygulova from Kyrgyzstan, who is studying at Tsinghua University, shared her love for Chinese internet literature and web series, saying that these works are welcomed by young people around the world due to their unique imagination and rich emotional undertones.

“Going abroad” of Chinese popular culture is not a mechanical “export” but an adaptation to the local cultural context to resonate with local audiences. Devinder Kumar said that nowadays, many Chinese works of internet literature and web series have been translated into Indian languages, which can be easily watched on mobile apps. The series are also dubbed by professional actors, so that local audiences can easily immerse themselves in them.

The recently released 56th “Statistical Report on China's Internet Development” shows that in 2024, the overseas Internet literature market size exceeded 5 billion yuan, and the number of overseas users exceeded 350 million. A number of web series that entered the international market have received wide praise from viewers and achieved commercial success.

Many young people from SCO countries who attended the event noted that Chinese popular culture is based on deep cultural connotations and has transcended national boundaries through innovative forms of expression, causing resonance and building a bridge for exchange of opinions and dialogue among youth groups. A. Baktygulova believes that the deep, original and creative traditional Chinese culture is a rich source of innovation in popular culture.

Devinder Kumar said overseas audiences are interested in the "East" and "new cultural experiences," while the integration of modern technology and the constant renewal of outstanding works of Chinese pop culture are attracting more and more young people. -0-

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China Unveils AI Model to Speed Up Scientific Research

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BEIJING, July 29 (Xinhua) — The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) unveiled the ScienceOne model at the 2025 World Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI), marking a major breakthrough in AI innovation.

Designed to analyze complex scientific data (including waveforms, spectra, and fields), ScienceOne integrates literature mining, knowledge-based reasoning, and tool coordination capabilities, aiming to become the intelligent foundation for technological innovation across multiple fields.

Current approaches rely heavily on retraining generic models with industry-specific data and developing isolated tools for specific domains. This paradigm faces three key limitations: fragmented scientific data systems, a lack of specialized inferential analysis capabilities, and closed research ecosystems.

To overcome these problems, 12 ANC institutes, including the Institute of Automation, the Center for Information Networks and Computing, the National Science Library, and the Institute of High Energy Physics, jointly developed ScienceOne.

The model has achieved a comprehensive understanding of complex scientific data (including waveforms, spectra and fields) by integrating key capabilities of literature mining, logical knowledge analysis and computational tool coordination. Researchers can easily use the capabilities of this model at various stages of scientific work.

Built on open-source Chinese models with deep scientific adaptation, ScienceOne combines a suite of unique models designed for common scientific data types, as well as specialized tools such as AlphaFold and MatterGen.

It demonstrates a systematic mastery of the fundamental principles, laws, and specialized knowledge in fundamental disciplines, including mathematics, physics, chemistry, astronomy, earth sciences, and biology.

The assessments confirmed its leading performance in mathematics, physics, chemistry, materials science, and biology, with leading capabilities in scientific professional tool recall and scientific reasoning. ScienceOne also demonstrated outstanding results in the Humanity's Last Exam (HLE).

Based on ScienceOne, the research team developed two scientific intelligent agents.

One is designed to help researchers analyze articles in depth, write reviews, and evaluate research topics and technical approaches. It has access to 170 million scientific publications and open source data in real time. With its support, literature review tasks that previously took 3-5 days are now completed in 20 minutes.

The second agent lowers the threshold for using scientific tools by providing autonomous planning of over 300 scientific computing tools. It automatically identifies research tasks and intelligently selects the optimal tools, increasing the efficiency of the scientific process.

Accelerating interdisciplinary discoveries, ScienceOne currently powers the X-Cell digital cell platform in the field of automatic identification of biological targets, improves the efficiency of particle modeling at the Beijing Electron-Positron Collider, improves the accuracy of molecular predictions in chemistry, optimizes the global coordination of telescopes for astronomy, and promotes innovation in the design of high-speed rail systems. -0-

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Lightning: Death toll from Israeli strikes on Gaza exceeds 60,000 – health authorities

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Xinhua | 29.07.2025

Keywords: Gaza-Israel

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Flash: Death toll from Israeli strikes on Gaza exceeds 60,000 – health authorities Flash: Death toll from Israeli strikes on Gaza exceeds 60,000 – health authorities

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Sergei Sobyanin spoke about the improvement of Shchyolkovskoye Highway

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Thousands are sold in Moscow every year improvement projects in different urban areas: from courtyards andparks to the streets and areas near transport facilitiesSergei Sobyanin reported this in on your telegram channel.

“This year, there are plans to put about 700 city streets in order, including three major outbound highways: Profsoyuznaya Street with 60th Anniversary of October Avenue,

Volgogradsky Prospect with Marxistskaya Street and Shchelkovskoye Highway with Krasnoprudnaya and Bolshaya Cherkizovskaya Streets,” the Mayor of Moscow wrote.

Source: Sergei Sobyanin's Telegram channel @mos_sobyanin

Shchyolkovskoye Highway is one of the largest outbound highways in Moscow, with about 570,000 city residents living nearby. It handles more than 22,000 vehicles per day. There are 51 public transport routes along the highway, with a daily passenger flow of 250,000 people.

The comprehensive improvement of Shchelkovskoye Shosse, Krasnoprudnaya and Bolshaya Cherkizovskaya streets began in April 2025. Specialists are carrying out work on the section from Komsomolskaya Square to the Moscow Ring Road with a total length of 8.9 kilometers. The main objective is to make the urban environment more functional and comfortable for local residents, while maintaining the transport function of the highway.

The implementation of the project will reduce the load on sections of Bolshaya Cherkizovskaya Street from Preobrazhensky Val Street to Khalturinskaya Street by seven percent, Shchyolkovskoye Highway from Montazhnaya Street to the exit to the Moscow High-Speed Diameter by 11 percent, Khalturinskaya Street from Otkrytoye Highway to Bolshaya Cherkizovskaya Street by six percent.

Instead of outdated stops, specialists will install nine modern pavilions. Thanks to the infrastructure upgrade, as well as due to the adjustment of traffic lights and the provision of priority to city transport, its travel speed will increase by 17 percent.

More than 720 benches and trash bins will be placed on the sidewalks and in other suitable places. 38 new information steles will help to find your way around. Shchyolkovskoye Highway will become lighter and safer in the evening and at night thanks to the replacement of 70 lanterns and more than 1.6 thousand old gas-discharge lamps with LED ones. At unregulated pedestrian crossings, specialists will install contrast lighting supports.

By creating 123 thousand square meters of lawns and planting more than 700 large trees, Shchyolkovskoye Highway will become much greener. To add color to the autumn-winter landscape, four decorative compositions of coniferous plants will be created on the scenic sections of the highway.

To improve the appearance of the highway, decorative cladding will appear near ventilation shafts and other engineering structures. Thanks to it, they will become attractive accents of the urban environment.

The specialists will also replace the surface of about 150 thousand square meters of sidewalks and more than 450 thousand square meters of roads, remove overhead cable lines underground and install an additional drainage system.

At the moment, 43 percent of the work has been completed. About 240 people and more than 70 units of equipment are involved.

"We began the comprehensive improvement of Shchyolkovskoye Highway with Krasnoprudnaya and Bolshaya Cherkizovskaya Streets in April 2025. Large-scale, voluminous work is being carried out on the section from Komsomolskaya Square to the Moscow Ring Road. We plan to finish them this fall," the Moscow Mayor wrote in

on your telegram channel.

Source: Sergei Sobyanin's Telegram channel @mos_sobyanin

Improvement of Shchyolkovskoye Highway has begun in the east of the capitalMoscow's outbound highways will become more modern and functional — Sergei Sobyanin

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What business plans have RUDN economics students developed for Russian companies?

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Analysis of target markets, conclusion of a contract with a sanction clause, development of logistics for deliveries to Latin American countries. These are just some of the points from the business plans prepared for Russian companies by students of the Faculty of Economics and the Law Institute of RUDN. But first things first.

Through the sieve of selection

At RUDN, students have the opportunity to study in a project-based master's program. This model of education assumes that students unite in teams and jointly develop a project (their final qualification work) for real customers – they can be both domestic and foreign companies. The projects that will be discussed were prepared by students of the Faculty of Economics and the Law Institute of RUDN. The Moscow Export Center helps the university find customer companies for them.

"After the selection, we introduce the students to each other and simultaneously send a request to colleagues at the Moscow Export Center asking them to involve Russian and foreign companies in the implementation of the projects. The MEC provides us with a list of interested enterprises with their brief description and the desired request: what product or service the company produces, where it wants to export them. We pass all this on to the students, after which teams are formed taking into account the students' wishes. The master's students begin working, and once a month we gather them to check what stage the projects are at. To help the students complete the assigned tasks, we conduct master classes from teachers and invited experts," says Maria Maslova, a RUDN University graduate and head of the educational programs department of the educational and acceleration programs department of the ANO "MEC".

A fresh look at business

In the spring, teams have a pre-defense of their projects in front of company representatives, where they receive feedback and learn about problematic areas that need to be corrected. The final defense of the diploma work is held according to the schedule of the state final certification.

"Business is interested in a fresh look at promising markets for their products. Companies essentially order a "consulting study" from us. They want to enter certain markets where they are not yet represented. RUDN economics students analyze these markets, calculate the financial component, develop marketing strategies for entry and promotion, and draw a conclusion about the profitability of the project. And students of the Law Institute analyze the entire legal component of entering foreign markets, prepare a draft foreign trade contract, and analyze the specifics of the legal system of the selected country," says Maria Maslova, a RUDN graduate and head of the educational programs department of the educational and acceleration programs department of the ANO "MEC".

Focus on Latin America

One of the projects that RUDN University master's students worked on last academic year concerned the entry of the Leber company into the Latin American market. It produces children's playgrounds.

"Our research revealed special features of the target markets, in particular, a high proportion of young people: children under 14 years old make up about 25-30% of the population. This indicates a huge potential for the company to enter the markets of these countries. In addition, an absolute plus for business development in the chosen direction is the established sea routes from the port of St. Petersburg to the ports of Latin American countries. However, there were obstacles here, because due to sanctions, there is a ban on the movement of Russian ships through the waters of unfriendly countries. To solve the problem, we suggested that Leber use the services of experienced forwarding companies based in the target markets," Mekhriddin Nuraliyev, a graduate of the Faculty of Economics of RUDN University.

According to Mehriddin, the most difficult part to develop was the financial part of the business plan. After all, without launching sales in the markets of Mexico, Brazil and Argentina, it is very difficult to forecast the profitability of the activity and calculate the income and expense estimate for 3-5 years ahead.

"But we coped with this task and received high praise for our business plan from Leber representatives. The company praised the team's professionalism and the depth of the research conducted," says Mekhriddin Nuraliyev, a graduate of the RUDN University Faculty of Economics.

Sanctions and the Middle East

The second project was developed by RUDN students for the Mesoformula company, a Russian manufacturer of innovative products for aesthetic medicine and professional cosmetology. The company wants to enter the Saudi Arabian market.

"We proposed the "corridor-2030" strategy – a consistent entry into the Saudi Arabian market through halal certification, registration with the SFDA and cooperation with a distributor in Jeddah. Together with my colleagues, we also thought out a financial model and built a legal and logistical "framework" for the project so that every figure and every condition worked in the same rhythm. At the same time, I managed to apply my skills as a lawyer, political scientist and GR specialist. I developed a protective sanction clause, assessed geopolitical risks and, having organized a consultative meeting with Saudi experts through the Moscow Chamber of Commerce and Industry, received prompt feedback. Thus, we significantly accelerated the negotiations and opened the necessary doors to the Middle East," – Rodion Lobanovsky, a graduate of the RUDN Law Institute.

Mesoformula has approved the students’ project, and its pilot launch is confirmed for 2026.

"I am very glad that it was possible to implement cooperation between Russian companies and my home university. We worked together for almost a year, and are very pleased with the result. The resulting projects really contain many points that the companies paid attention to, including in terms of the specifics of interaction between Russian business and the selected markets. We hope for further cooperation," – Maria Maslova, Head of the Educational Programs Department of the Educational and Acceleration Programs Department of ANO "MEC".

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Color against inattention – how students and teachers of RUDN and Altai State University created an app for children with ADHD

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There are about 1,600,000 children with confirmed attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in Russia. The necessary therapy is not always available to their families: due to the cost or the lack of specialized centers nearby. Teachers and students of RUDN and Altai State University have developed a special application for such children that increases attentiveness and reduces anxiety using the color photostimulation (CPS) method.

This year, the ActiMinds project team presented their application at the RUDN.VC 2.0 accelerator, becoming its finalist and receiving investor support. And then the development won the Startup Fest 2025 competition, which was organized by RSUH.

Project team:

Saniya Islamova is the project manager, analyst-programmer, first-year master's student of the Applied Informatics program at the Faculty of Physical, Mathematical and Natural Sciences of RUDN University. Mikhail Yatsenko is the head of research work, candidate of biological sciences, psychophysiologist, associate professor of the Department of General and Applied Psychology of Altai State University. Tatyana Ustimenko is the director of the Scientific and Production Complex of the Cognitive Science Center. Ivan Brak is a specialist in scientific communication, candidate of biological sciences, neurobiologist, senior lecturer of the Department of the Faculty of Physical, Mathematical and Natural Sciences of RUDN University. Doruk Meric is a programmer, first-year master's student of the Applied Informatics program at the Faculty of Physical, Mathematical and Natural Sciences of RUDN University.

The essence of development

The CFS method involves exposing the body to light signals of different colors – red, blue, green (at the user's choice) – with an optimal blinking frequency.

Photostimulation helps to rebuild the functional state of the cerebral cortex into an optimal operating mode and activates Brodmann's area 10, which in turn activates the prefrontal cortex. After all, it is the prefrontal cortex that is involved in providing such cognitive functions as planning, decision-making, awareness and establishment of logical connections between phenomena, theoretical positions, as well as in recalling memories from episodic memory.

The mobile app developed by the team works in conjunction with VR glasses. The user puts on the glasses, turns on the app, selects the color that will affect him for 2-10 minutes (red, blue or green). And then simply watches the flickering, which looks like a circle, of the selected color.

What are the advantages of development:

low cost of 2,500 rubles for a course of therapy consisting of 10 sessions (traditional methods of therapy cost from 20 to 50 thousand rubles); easy to use with a minimum of equipment (smartphone with an installed application plus VR glasses); the effect is already there from the first session; • high safety of use in the absence of epilepsy, heart disease and recent retinal detachment or recent eye surgery; there are statistics, session history, expansion of options is planned; there is communication with the project team via a chat bot and a VK channel.

A bit of history

The idea for the project originated at Altai State University back in 2001 during a study of the influence of the level of brain activation on the effectiveness of mental performance.

"University scientists have found that at a certain level of brain activation, the experiment participants demonstrated high levels of mental performance. As a result, an idea came up to "impose" this activity on the brain in order to improve its performance using the color photostimulation method. During the research, ordinary glasses with black opaque lenses were used, on the inside of which three LEDs were glued in the center – red, green and blue. The glasses, in turn, were connected by wire to a special unit with a liquid crystal screen. It allowed changing the frequency of flickering, brightness and color," – Saniya Islamova, head of the "ActiMinds" project and a RUDN Master's student (Applied Informatics, 1st year).

However, it took 20 years before the idea was developed and tested on a wider audience. Only since 2023 have studies been conducted again on different groups of people – children, students, athletes. At the same time, the development of technology has made it possible to use a smartphone and the first version of a mobile application created by a programmer from Barnaul instead of a block with a screen. And glasses with LEDs have been replaced by VR glasses, which allow you to influence a person's visual field and prevent him from being distracted from the process of color photostimulation, which significantly increases the effectiveness of therapy sessions.

Proven effectiveness

"From February 1 to May 25, 2024, 37 children aged 6 to 7 years voluntarily took part in the study of the method. The experimental group included 24 children, 5 of whom had characteristic signs of attention deficit disorder (ADD) and 6 more – signs of ADHD. The control group consisted of 13 children. Sessions with the color photostimulation method were held four times a week for 10 minutes before correctional and developmental classes in the classrooms. In total, each child completed 10 sessions. In the group of children with ADHD, the speed of completing teacher's tasks increased by 15%, the number of errors decreased by 2.5 times, and overall productivity increased by 22.5%," said Elena Abuzova, Director of the MBU DO "DOOTS "Harmony".

Expanding the team

Saniya Islamova joined the project in September 2024 as an administrator, and soon began to manage it. When the team was joined by programmer Meric Doruk in early 2025, it became possible to modernize the application. In two months, Meric created a new version of the service from scratch, it was deployed on PythonAnyWhere hosting. And now the team is switching to the Express.js (backend), Next.js (frontend) frameworks in JavaScript and the PostgreSQL database management system in order to be able to block content to protect against piracy and plagiarism. In addition, unnecessary settings were removed from the service, but an algorithm for creating a personal account and verifying a user using a unique token was added. Investor's choice With the modernized application, the team took part in the RUDN.VC 2.0 accelerator. The program lasted 70 days, and during this time, Sania and her colleagues held more than 130 meetings with mentor-trackers, attended 8 open lectures from market experts and improved their project. On May 30, at the demo day, Sania defended the team's work to investors. One of them, the founder of the company "ABV" and ambassador of the "Academy of Innovators" Ivan Shumilov, selected "ActiMinds" for further cooperation. Here is how he assessed the project.

"The development has potential. It is possible to quickly enter monetization through the "technology plus service" combination. However, we need even more measurements on people to demonstrate the result – before/after. To increase trust on the part of parents, specialists and partners, it is necessary to strengthen the scientific and expert base. Involving people with specialized education, publications, clinical and research experience in the team or expert council will become a strong support. Their conclusions will be able to support the evidence-based nature of the method. The application can also be adapted for other problems, not only ADHD, but also stress, anxiety, and adaptation difficulties. In this way, it will be possible to expand the product line," – Ivan Shumilov, founder of the company "ABV" and ambassador of the "Academy of Innovators".

Best Startup

After completing the accelerator, the ActiMinds team formulated a commercial proposal for cooperation with private psychologists and neuropsychologists, psychological centers, and also agreed with the RUDN University Faculty of Psychology on joint work from autumn 2025. With such results, the participants of the ActiMinds project applied for the Startup Fest 2025 competition, which was organized by RSUH.

"In the beginning, there were no particular hopes for winning, since we had to create a website for the project and conduct a marketing campaign. Probably, setting up online advertising was the most difficult, since we were doing it for the first time. After that, we recorded a video with a story about "ActiMinds", the conducted marketing campaign and its results, and sent an application to the competition. The jury watched the video, and eventually, the student organizers from RSUH wrote to us and invited us to the award ceremony in one of the nominations. And it turned out to be a victory in the main nomination. The victory gave a positive assessment to our project and our teamwork, which does not go in vain!" – Saniya Islamova, head of the "ActiMinds" project and a RUDN University Master's student (Applied Informatics, 1st year).

According to Saniya, the recommendations for further development of the project from the organizers and jury of the competition were very valuable. Mikhail Boldyrev, Director of the Center for Project Activities and Communication Technologies at the Russian State University for the Humanities, advised the team to create a website and social networks for the project. Post articles on the topic of ADHD on the portal, collect traffic, and initiate communication with potential users of the application and partners in social networks. Then gradually integrate your own product into the community through expert content. In addition, Mikhail Boldyrev recommended involving doctors in testing the application in order to promote the product through their reviews.

New goals

The team has taken the expert's advice on board, so its immediate plans include creating social networks and a project website to educate and inform parents about the ADHD problem and their method. And also to organize joint work with the psychology departments of RUDN and Moscow State University on research and scientific articles in the new academic year, and to establish commercial cooperation with private neuropsychologists and psychological centers.

"We also plan to launch our own mobile application for the Android platform, which will work together with VR glasses. In addition to the main function based on the photostimulation method, the service will offer psychological tests, analysis of the user's speech segment before and after using the DFS method, support and online consultation with a psychologist. The application is planned to be placed on all available marketplaces," says Saniya Islamova, head of the ActiMinds project and a RUDN University Master's student (Applied Informatics, 1st year).

In addition, the ActiMinds team wants to apply for the Student Startup competition from the Social Initiatives Fund and compete for a grant. And hopes for another victory.

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