The World Youth Festival has been presented as part of the business programme of the Russia–Africa Economic and Humanitarian Forum.
The main aim was to expand the areas of focus of Russian–African youth cooperation and invite young African leaders to the Festival.
Ekaterina Antonova, General Director, Directorate of the World Festival of Youth and Students, took part in the event.
The head of the Festival Directorate also spoke at the strategic session entitled Initiator of Change: Youth Projects and Long-Term Cooperation, on the prospects of interaction between Russian and African youth.
Other participants in the discussion included Maria Zakharova, Director, Department of Information and the Press, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Ahmed Bening Wiisichong, Secretary General of the Pan-African Youth Union, Grigory Zaslavskiy, Rector, Russian Institute of Theatre Arts GITIS, Svetlana Anufrieva, Minister of Youth Policy of the Nizhny Novgorod Region, Yevgeny Primakov, Head of Rossotrudnichestvo, Salaheddine Tiar, Founder, Algeria Youth Ambassadors and Artemy Ponyavin, Director of the Executive Committee,
“National Delphic Council of Russia” All-Russian Public Organisation, Konstantin Fursov, Member of the Coordinating Council for Youth Affairs in the Scientific and Educational Spheres of the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for Science and Education, Daria Borisova, Director of Avangard, and Sergey Mikhnevich, Executive Secretary of the Presidium of the EAEU Business Council.
The World Festival of Youth will be held in 2024 in accordance with a decree from Russian President Vladimir Putin in order to develop international youth cooperation.
At the first meeting of the Organising Committee, chaired by Sergey Kiriyenko, First Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office of the Russian Federation, it was decided to hold the Festival in the Sirius Federal Territory on 1–7 March, 2024.
The regional programme of the World Festival of Youth will be held on 10–17 March, 2024; participants will visit 26 Russian cities.
A total of 20,000 young leaders in business, media, education, science, international cooperation, culture, volunteering, charity, sports, and various other spheres, including 10,000 foreign participants, will take part in the Festival in 2024.
For the first time in the history of the Festival movement, teenagers aged 14–17 will get the opportunity to take part in the event: 500 from Russia and 500 from abroad.
BY TIMES REPORTER