On October 8, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Kursk Region hosted a presentation of innovative projects of the annual regional competition “Innovation and Invention of the Year”. The competition is held by the Kursk Chamber of Commerce and Industry together with the Administration of the Kursk region to activate the innovative activities of scientists, organizations, individual entrepreneurs, stimulate initiative and desire to create and promote promising products to the market. Kursk scientists presented their developments to the members of the Expert Council of the Kursk Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Working Group of the Kursk Region Administration for the review and evaluation of innovative projects submitted to the annual regional competition “Innovation and Invention of the Year”. At the end of the event, the members of the Expert Council of the Kursk Chamber of Commerce and Industry for the review and evaluation of innovative projects submitted to the annual regional competition “Innovation and Invention of the Year” summed up the preliminary results of the competition. The winner in each of the three nominations: “Innovative idea”, “Innovative project”, “Innovative product”, taking into account expert evaluation, will be determined by the Organizing Committee of the competition under the chairmanship of the First Deputy Governor of the Kursk region Alexey Smirnov in November this year. The award ceremony will take place in December.