Rossiya Airlines participated in the first intercollegiate Aviahackathon, which took place at the Moscow Aviation Institute. Young and promising developers in the field of programming, marketing and analytics were given the opportunity to present their current products and unique solutions for the development of aviation business in Russia. 

The project launched with support of Rossiya allowed the organizers of Aviahackathon to give the participants an opportunity to try themselves at solving the actual problems of the aviation industry, relying on the modern vision and expert opinion of industry practitioners. 

Analyzing its own business processes, Rossiya Airlines offered Aviahackathon participants marketing and production IT-cases, practical implementation of which can be useful for the company. Participants of the hackathon received an opportunity to get the airline’s support in their hypotheses examination and potential for the implementation of the developed solutions assessment. 
  
«Russian Civil aviation turned 95 years old this year. Our branch plays a special role in the socio-economic development of the country, providing mobility of the population and strengthening economic ties between the regions in the age of active digitization of all spheres of activities. - said Dmitry Saprykin, CEO of Rossiya Airlines JSC. - Analyzing the accumulated production and intellectual potential within the airline, we are clearly aware of the necessity to actively support the mutual exchange of ideas and experience, both with the professional innovation community and with the younger generation of specialists, establishing joint solutions and motivating our domestic innovative resource for breakthrough projects, and production - for implementation initiatives.»   

More than that, the event for students, which gathered the most active future software engineers, mobile applications developers, designers, interface designers, marketers, analysts, as well as real aviation business specialists of airlines, airports, system integrators, IT corporations, is a unique opportunity to acquire useful contacts and learn from experience. 
  
The winning teams won prizes from Rossiya Airlines and other partners of the event.