On April 19, Saratov University together with Association of Leading Universities held a panel discussion titled the Applying Organisational Work and Youth Policy Methods.
The audience was greeted by Aleksei Chumachenko, SSU Rector; Tatyana Omelchuk, Deputy Director of the Department of State Youth Policy and Educational Activities, the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation; Angelina Belovitskaya, Deputy Minister of Youth Policy and Sports of Saratov Region; Marina Lavrikova, Senior Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs and Methodological Support, St Petersburg University. The moderator of the discussion was Vice-Rector for Youth Policy and Organisational Work Anton Golovchenko.
More than 100 educational institutions of higher education took part in the event, including, HSE University, Saratov State University, the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Southern Federal University, the National University of Science and Technology (NUST MISIS), Saint Petersburg Law Institute, and many others.
According to the Deputy Director of the department Tatyana Omelchuk, the main goal of the implementation of youth policy is the all-round development of the personality, the spiritual, moral and civic formation of a young person, the mastery of general cultural and professional values. ‘In this respect, the educational organization plays a lot of attention at the appropriate stage of life. Each of them has a special system of educational work with students. And the purpose of this work is to create the necessary conditions for civil self-determination and self-realization,’ she explained.
‘We, as universities, have never left the educational process aside. We perfectly understand that education is not only science and the skills that we will pass on to our graduates. Any employer always considers a potential employee from the position of possessing such personal qualities as honour, decency, responsibility. The university is responsible for their formation,’ said the SSU rector. He shared the basics of implementing the educational process on the basis of our university.
Deputy Minister of Youth Policy and Sports of Saratov Region Angelina Belovitskaya also shared her opinion. ‘Building work with youth, each of us understands that we are building the foundation for the future of Russia. And youth policy is a unique, multifaceted industry that includes the whole range of interests and guidelines of a young person. Today we must understand how the young generation lives and what it is oriented towards. For this purpose, on the territory of each subject, conditions are created for the harmonious development of the individual, in particular, through the implementation of regional and federal projects.’
Within the framework of the plenary session, Olga Munina, Associate Professor of the Department of Youth Sociology, the Faculty of Sociology, SSU, presented the report titled Working with youth after the pandemic: challenges, lessons, opportunities. The participants from other universities in their speeches raised issues such as grant support for youth projects, the development of volunteer activities, the development of professional and supra-professional competencies of students through the organization of work of communities in the field of territorial development, the development of future skills through the implementation of non-formal education programs at the university, modern challenges of educational work in the higher education system.
At the sessions, which were conducted by Sergei Ivchenkov, Dean of the Faculty of Sociology, SSU, and Dennis Yashin, Chair of the SSU Undergraduate and Graduate Student Council, the practice of volunteer work with youth in the context of a pandemic, the activities of youth organizations in the Saratov region, civil-patriotic education of students, measures to counter the spread of criminal subcultures in the youth environment were considered.
SSU professor Sergei Ivchenkov spoke about the problems of the generation gap in modern conditions, Tanzilya Rudzinskaya, Associate Professor of the Department of Speech Therapy and Psycholinguistics, devoted her report to youth inclusion in the Abilympics volunteer movement.
‘I would like to thank the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, Association of Leading Universities, and, of course, the Ministry of Youth Policy and Sports of our region. In addition, I would like to thank the participants for the constructive dialogue and interesting proposals. I am sure that many of them will be able to find real embodiment in life. Thanks to colleagues for interesting reports. I hope that this platform was useful to many, and the experience gained will allow us to make the youth policy even more intense and interesting,’ Anton Golovchenko addressed to the members and the event moderators.
