SSU has become the winner of the All-Russian competition of youth projects among universities. The competition is held by the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs.
Saratov State University won in seven nominations. Seven winning projects will be implemented by November 2023. The main organisers of the projects will be the Council of Undergraduates and Postgraduates, the Headquarters of Student Brigades, the Student Club, SSU.
The following projects received support:
- in the #preserve_nature nomination – Ecotour on the Khoper River of Saratov Region – rafting on the river by kayaks by a group of students in order to clean polluted coastlines;
- in the #create_opportunities nomination – Trend Session of Students-Pedagogues – Mentor of the Future. The project is aimed at developing students-pedagogues as a mechanism of labour education and an opportunity to acquire additional professional skills, as well as comprehensive training of mentors to improve the system of training qualified personnel as part of student counsellor teams;
- in the #take_care nomination – Literary Festival – Books Tasting. Its goal is to strengthen family values and popularise Russian fiction studying the gastronomic preferences of writers and their characters. Participants of the festival will be able not only to taste the dishes of their favourite characters, but also to plunge into the history and life of their families;
- in the #inspire nomination – Patriotic Studio – Kindness – is a creative association that consists of a band which sing patriotic songs, a group of Russian folk dance, and a group of reciters. The Kindness studio will develop patriotic consciousness and loyalty to the Fatherland among Russian youth, as well as introduce them to the culture of their peoples;
- in the #tell_me_about_the_main_thing nomination – Media Wave District School is an educational platform for young people and students of Volga Federal District who are interested in media and are keen on creating and implementing media projects in educational organisations of the district;
- in the #move_community nomination – Educational Marathon – Create. The project is a set of activities aimed at teaching mentoring technologies. Project participants will be able to complete training in three areas – Mentor, Facilitator/ Moderator, Trainer – and test their knowledge at the marathon;
- in the #remember nomination – Video Project about the Heroes of Laboгr – PROlabour: Stories of the Great. Its objective is to create a series of stories about Saratov Region and the veterans of labour of the region.
Vladislav Bykov, Chair of the Council of Undergraduates and Postgraduates of the university, shared his impressions. ‘I was very glad to see such a result in the Rosmolodezh competition. The university has not won so many grants for projects at the same time for a long time. Of course, this was influenced by the careful preparation of students – a project workshop conducted by the Office of Youth Policy. I would like to note that our projects have different directions. The supported projects are especially relevant this year, for example, that aimed at developing mentoring and pedagogy in the region.’
This year, the expert commission received 2,293 projects from 340 educational institutions in Russia. 687 projects from 184 universities became winners. The total amount of funding amounted to 898,871,000 roubles.
