URSA Bank starts this year’s Course Leader Scholarship program this May, the bank’s press officer reports. The scholarship is aimed at finding and supporting gifted students with some promising managerial potential in Russia’s best colleges and universities. The contest is to be held in twenty-four colleges in the Urals and Siberia, namely, in cities like Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Krasnoyarsk, Kemerovo, Irkutsk, Tomsk, Omsk, Barnaul, and Chelyabinsk.

‘URSA Bank looks for leadership, potential, and youthfulness. We always welcome people who are willing to reveal their best professional selves, their talents, and their perseverance, people who can come up with daring plans and make them a reality. Our Course Leader project helps them to discover their own resourcefulness and offers good prospects,’ says URSA Bank’s Deputy GD for Development Yuri Vavilov.

URSA Bank’s scholarship was first introduced in 2004. More information is available via the company’s website (the Social Responsibility section).