To reveal the innovative and creative potential of youth to its fullest.
Objective:
To reveal the innovative and creative potential of youth to its fullest.
Goals:
To promote youth self-organization.
To enhance youth social status within the process of federal and regional development.
To enhance youth competitiveness on the labor market.
Youth is one of the strategic resources of social development, and its active involvement in economic, political, and social processes provides an additional development impetus to the regions and the country upon the whole. On the backdrop of the negative demographical trends in Russia, youth is viewed as especially valuable human capital for the national development. Over the past several years, a lot more attention has been paid to youth-related issues. The perception of youth as an additional burden upon the adult society is being gradually replaced with the understanding of the necessity to invest in youth and enhance its social status. In late 2006, the government of the Russian Federation approved the “Strategy of the state youth policy of the Russian Federation” for the period of up to 2016 which implies active involvement of youth in national priority projects. The Public Chamber of the Russian Federation has joined the discussion of youth-related issues having put together the “Concept of activities designed to address youth-related issues in the Russian Federation” that presents youth-related issues and policy as an inseparable unity of governmental and nongovernmental components.
Despite certain positive changes, efficiency of youth programs remains low which makes it difficult to encourage youth initiative, reveal the innovative and creative potential of youth, and promote volunteerism among young people. Together with leading Russian experts the New Eurasia Foundation has examined the current status of the youth policy in Russia and identified a number of key problems, including the following:
Insufficient involvement of young people in the development and implementation of youth programs and projects, as well as social and economic territorial development processes.
Lack of a common youth-related information environment, as well as the absence of a systemic approach to sociological research of youth-related issues.
Lack of collaboration among regional and municipal public institutions, authorities, and businesses in the solution of youth-related issues.
Relying on the analysis results, the New Eurasia Foundation works to:
Develop the youth initiatives support infrastructure and form effective social partnerships required to design and implement youth projects and programs;
Create mechanisms that enable young people to participate in managerial decision-making, and train young leaders and consultants at the municipal and regional levels;
Encourage social involvement of youth by supporting community schools and their sustainable network-based collaboration.
Projects:
“ACT!” project
“The road back home” project
“Regional Youth Programmes”
“Active youth – for local communities” project
“We are together!”
“Future is born today”
For further information:
New Eurasia Foundation
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