Seliger withdraws from stereotypes

Seliger withdraws from stereotypes


By Vestnik Kavkaza


The forum Seliger-2013, which is traditionally held in the Tver region, has gathered 15,000 participants this year.

“One of the main results which we have tried to achieve for several years is a clear trend that Seliger which used to be a political, socio-political platform is being developed toward being the central platform of the youth policy,” the deputy head of the Federal Agency on Youth Affairs, Alexei Volokhov, says. “It means different essence and different content. I think political and ideological issues pale into insignificance for Seliger. One of the main qualitative results of the youth project forum is that a session of the Public Council on Youth Affairs under the Ministry of Education and Science took place under chairmanship of the minister Dmitry Livanov. I think decisions made at the session should reflect in the youth policy, life of young people, first of all, students. It was confirmed that the Ministry of Education and Science and the vice-premier supervising the social bloc, Olga Golodets, supported the idea of establishing an annual all-Russian contest of youth projects. It is an opportunity for many young people, thousands of young people to try their ideas, their potential, implement, solve the problem, and reach financial success and popularity. It will settle also problems of professional orientation.”

The main trends of the youth policy are business, the desire of young people to make business in all spheres, and healthy lifestyle, according to its supervisors. “It is trendy to be physically fit. The most demanded and the most interesting session in the forum was “Run for Me” which united fitness movements of the country,” the head of the Federal Agency on Youth Affairs, Sergey Belokonev, says.

But Seliger couldn’t shift from the socio-political element. So, the third session – Civil Forum – was devoted to representatives of non-commercial community, youth unions of political parties, and social entities. “We tried to dispel existing stereotypes and presented in Seliger almost the whole spectrum of socio-political forces of Russia,” the head of the Youth Projects and Programs Department of the Federal Agency on Youth Affairs, Sergey Chuyev, states. “For the first time all youth branches of the political parties presented in the State Duma were presented in the forum, as well as almost all social entities.”

As for the future of Seliger Forum, according to Sergey Belokonev, “The president’s firm position is that the platform should be developed and make it annual. Next year we are ready to fulfill such a trendy task as doubling Seliger Forum. We are ready to make it twice-longer and double the number of its participants; the task can be implemented under certain conditions provided by the Ministry of Finances. Ahead of the forum, we got the land patent on the territory where the forum takes place, and now the land belongs to one of our federal state departments – Rospatriotcenter. Today this entity unites three platforms – one on the Baltic Sea, Seliger Forum, and the third platform is near Vladikavkaza in the NCFD. However, the organization lacks money for 2014, and we initiate allocation of separate financing on Seliger Forum from the Ministry of Finances. Moreover, considering experience in holding the business forum, we think about establishing the second platform for the All-Russian Youth Forum for more advances, elder young people. Probably, it will be located between Skolkovo and Seliger, somewhere in the Moscow Region. We consider several platforms on the Kiev and Minsk highways.”

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