19th World Festival of Youth and Students kicks off today in Russia. It will be held in Moscow and Sochi from October 14 to 22.
The festival marks the 70th anniversary of the event which was first held in Prague in 1947. More than 20,000 energetic young people from more than 120 countries across the globe are expected to attend the festival.
The festival would hold panel discussions and a series of scientific and educational events. These would further include lectures, conferences, master classes and workshops on topics like architecture and design, global politics, international security, technologies of future, environment and health, the future of science and global education, economics for future development, global culture, civil development platform, industries of future, aviation of future, the global rail network, and new media trends and landscape, Pakistan Today writes.
The festival would also feature national and international cultural performances, exhibitions, and sporting events.
The event would begin with an international student parade in Moscow, preceded by international ministerial meeting of ministries, secretaries and head of departments responsible for national youth policy.
The ministerial meeting would stress on best practices for welfare and productive engagement of young people, being practiced by different countries of the world.
The volunteer campus of the 19th World Festival of Youth and Students was opened in Sochi on Thursday.
Over 5,000 volunteers from 85 Russian regions took an oath at the opening ceremony, promising to help the participants and guests of the festival and “to smile, rain or shine.” The volunteers’ corps include Russians and foreigners aged over 18, RT reports.
