International Education: Russian Knowledge Society to Hold the Knowledge.First Educational Marathon at the World Youth Festival

The Russian Knowledge Society will act as the general partner of the educational program of the World Youth Festival to be held in the Sirius Federal Territory on March 1-7, 2024. During the Festival, the Knowledge.First Educational Marathon, the Knowledge.Game Intellectual Tournament, and the Knowledge.Cinema Lectorium organized by the Russian Knowledge Society will be held for the Festival guests, as well as an exhibition of the winners of the National Knowledge.Russia Photography Competition. Media and blogosphere accreditation for these and other Festival events is open until January 15.

One of the main events of the educational program of the World Youth Festival will be the Knowledge.First Educational Marathon by the Russian Knowledge Society. The marathon will take place over 5 days at the venues in Sirius. During the Festival, it will be transformed into the Global Youth City. The events will take place at the WYF International Airport, Yamal, Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan, Belgorod and Moscow Pavillions and Soul of Russia Square. Young guests from all over the world will attend lectures, workshops, round tables and interviews with prominent public figures, eminent scientists, athletes, and recognized masters of culture and art. Viewers will also be able to watch the marathon mentors perform live on the Knowledge.TV channel.

During the marathon, WYF 2024 participants and mentors will discuss achievements and cooperation in space, ecology, tourism, inclusion, volunteering, charity, and youth movements. A large block of topics will be devoted to a healthy lifestyle, self-realization, education, creative industries, sports and esports, as well as opportunities that are open to young people in Russia today. The speakers will pay special attention to the traditions of the peoples of Russia and the world, as well as to significant milestones in Russian history.

Luc Besson, French film director, screenwriter, producer and writer, Sergey Kravtsov, Minister of Education of the Russian Federation, Maria Zakharova, Director of the Information and Press Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Yuri Bashmet, People's Artist of the USSR, Hero of Labor and Laureate of Soviet and Russian State Prizes, Roman Kostomarov, Olympic Champion, and Dmitry Kharatyan, People's Artist of Russia, have already confirmed their participation.

Another major event of the educational program is the Knowledge.Game Intellectual Tournament in which 10,000 polymaths from different countries will participate.  Also, as part of the educational program, the Knowledge.Cinema Lectorium will work for the Festival guests. Young viewers from all over the world will see the legendary Russian films and meet actors, directors and other representatives of the world film industry. The Festival will also include an exhibition of the winners of the National Knowledge.Russia Photography Competition organized by the Russian Knowledge Society. Photographers – professionals and amateurs – reflected in their works the most important achievements of Russia in the 21st century.

After the events in the Sirius Federal Territory are over, the Russian Knowledge Society will continue the educational part of the Festival. On March 10-17, lectures and workshops of public figures, entrepreneurs, cultural and artistic figures, scientists and athletes will be organized in 30 Russian regions as part of the WYF 2024 regional program.

The World Youth Festival is intended to become a platform for an open dialog between young people from Russia and other countries. An important part of this process is education. The events organized by the Russian Knowledge Society will allow the Festival guests to deepen their knowledge of Russian history, science and culture, and to discuss current ways of solving problems that concern young people.

Accreditation of media and blogosphere representatives who want to cover the events of the educational program organized by the Russian Knowledge Society and other Festival events is open until January 15, 2024, on the official WYF 2024 website.

Overview:

The World Youth Festival will take place in 2024 according to the decree of Russian President Vladimir Putin on the development of international youth cooperation. At the first meeting of the Organizing Committee chaired by Sergey Kiriyenko, First Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Administration, it was decided to hold the Festival in the Sirius Federal Territory early next year.

20,000 young leaders in education, science, international cooperation, culture, volunteering, charity, sports, business, media, etc., including 10,000 foreign participants, will take part in the WYF 2024. For the first time in the history of the festival movement young people aged 14-17, 500 from Russia and 500 from abroad, will have the opportunity to participate in the event. 5,000 volunteers from all regions of Russia, including 228 residents of the LPR, DPR, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson Regions will be involved in the organization and delivery of the Festival. The World Youth Festival is organized by the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs (Rosmolodezh) and operated by the World Youth Festival Directorate.

The Russian Knowledge Society traces its history back to the Soviet public organization founded in 1947 on the initiative of representatives of the Soviet intelligentsia as the All-Union Society for the Dissemination of Political and Scientific Knowledge (since 1963 — the All-Union Knowledge Society, since 1991— the Knowledge of Russia Society). Members of the Society were engaged in popularizing science and lecturing on the achievements of the Soviet economy and industry. In 2016, Knowledge of Russia was transformed into the Russian Knowledge Society. On April 21, 2021, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the need to restart the Russian Knowledge Society on a modern digital platform in his address to the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.

More information about the activities of the Russian Knowledge Society is available on the project website and its VKontakte and Telegram pages.