The 3rd All-Russia Conference “The way to success: national projects and support strategies for talented youth” was held in Sochi at the Educational Centre Sirius on January 27—29. The discussion was focused upon training of personnel for national priority projects, such as Education and Science.
Alongside the Conference, two more educational events were held: the presentation of the internship projects by the MCU Master’s degree students majoring in Cultivating Young Talents, and round-table discussion of their research work featuring key speakers of the Conference.
MCU Rector Igor Remorenko was moderating the discussion on January 28 titled ‘Identity of development: training accomplished teachers in Master’s school. Arranging project activities at school according to the priority areas of the Russia’s Strategy of science and technology development. Igor Remorenko opened the talk by sharing the insights of the MCU’s pedagogical and reseach Master’s programs. He explained that such programs act as models for implementing the Russia’s strategy for teachers’ development in general education.
Rector noted that Action Research is aimed at solving actual tasks, being useful in real life. It is based on international context, constant improvement of teachers’ training, best practices and active learning methods, such as agile-design, science battles and forsight sessions.
The students majoring in Cultivating Young Talents, a Master’s degree program established by MCU and the Educational Centre Sirius, presented their internship projects as part of their off-campus winter exam session.
The program Coordinator Oleg Zverev commented on the students’ achievements.
The speakers of the Conference participated in the discussion of the students’ research work, including:
- Yurij Zinchenko, President of the Russian Academy of Education
- Irina Kondrakova, Head of Administration of the Federal Academic Methodological Association
- Marina Lavrikova, Senior Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs and Methodological Support, Saint Petersburg University
- Irina Semenenko, Head of the Center for Comparative Socio-Economic and Political Studies, the Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations
- Andrey Mel’nikov, Senior Expert at the Department of Educational Programs, RUSNANO
Oleg Zverev says that these experts will be engaged as research advisors in the future, creating a new approach to conducting research at university. While the classic model features a student and an academic supervisor, the model applied within the framework of the collaborative Master’s program of MCU and Sirius will engage 4 participants: a student, an academic supervisor, an employer representative and an expert research advisor.
Read more about the Conference in Russian here.