Tools for working with investors were taught at the School of Investment officers of the Murmansk region

Tools for working with investors were taught at the School of Investment officers of the Murmansk region

The third training within the framework of the School of Investment Officers, organized by the Murmansk Region Development Corporation with the support of the regional government, has been completed.

The third module of the School of Investment Officers gathered in the Regional Management Center municipal investment teams from almost all areas of the Arctic – from Kandalaksha to BUT Vidyaevo. The new course is devoted to support measures and tools for the work of investment officers, as well as improving skills in working with investors.
Recall that the investment officers have been working in the municipalities of the Murmansk region since 2021, their activities are aimed at helping investors to launch projects. In order for the emerging issues to be resolved in a shorter time, on behalf of the Governor of the Murmansk region, Andrey Chibis, investment officers are appointed at least at the level of the deputy head of the municipality administration.


"For a year and a half, the investment authorities have become an effective institution for attracting investments and working with investors, as well as information support for entrepreneurs and those who are just going to become them. The training is aimed at developing the competencies of investment officers and exchanging experience with regions where there are similar practices," said Andrei Varich, Deputy Minister of Arctic Development and Economy of the Murmansk Region, welcoming the participants of the School of Investment Officers.


In the first part of the training program, the Director of the Investment Development Department, Semyon Kalmykov, and the head of PPP projects of the Murmansk Region Development Corporation, Evgeny Tripolsky, as well as the director of the Murmansk Region Small and Medium-Sized Entrepreneurship Development Fund, Andrey Dochkin, analyzed in detail the existing measures to support investors in the region.


"The Government of the Russian Federation and the government of the Murmansk Region are constantly working to improve support measures and sometimes it is quite difficult to understand their diversity at the municipal level. Therefore, we conduct training events so that the investment authorities understand what kind of support can be offered in various types of activities. In addition, we are helping to understand the new types of support that have recently been released," said Artem Kuksa, First Deputy General Director of the Murmansk Region Development Corporation.


In the second part of the training, federal teachers with experience working with municipal teams in more than 30 regions of Russia – Andrey Krylov and Daria Molchanova, conducted a training and business game called "Understand the Investor", developed specifically for the Murmansk region. As a result, the participants of the School developed concrete ideas to improve their work.


"During the preparation of the educational program, we determined that one of the deficits that occurs among investment officials is to interact directly with investors and talk to them "in the same language." Therefore, for the School of Investment Officers in Murmansk, we conducted a training on negotiations. This is a minimum of theory and a maximum of practice, thanks to which participants can introduce a lot of applied tools into their work," said Daria Molchanova, a teacher at the Third School of Investment Officers.


In addition, during the training in the discussion format, specialists responsible for investment development, former and current investment officers from the Murmansk Region, Tatarstan, Bashkiria, Sverdlovsk Region and Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug exchanged experience in working with investors in municipalities.


/ Ministry of Arctic Development and Economy of the Murmansk Region according to the Murmansk Region Development Corporation /