VIII International
Nevsky Forum
June 20–21, 2024
Transformation of Institutions in Russia and the World: Combining the Efforts of the State, Business and Civil Society
PROGRAM
Participation is free
Registration
June 21
Wednesday
Venue: St. Petersburg, V.I., 8th line, 61, reading room of the RANEPA Scientific Library St. Petersburg
11:00 – 15:00
International Conference "Internationalization of Higher Education: Global Challenges and Best Practices" (round table)
Questions for discussion:
  • Building an internationalization strategy;
  • The main drivers of internationalization;
  • Formation of global brand and reputation;
  • Attracting and accompanying international students;
  • Cross-border education;
  • Internationalization through partnerships;
  • Internal Internationalization;
  • Internationalization measurement and quality assessment.
Working languages: Russian, English
12:30 – 11:00
Registration of participants, welcome coffee break
11:00 – 12:30
Part I
Moderator: Olga Vladimirovna Nesterova, Head of the International Cooperation Department of RANEPA St. Petersburg
12:30 – 13:15
Coffee break
13:15 – 14:45
Part II
Moderator: Olga Vladimirovna Nesterova, Head of the International Cooperation Department of RANEPA St. Petersburg
(Time is being specified)
Press conference
June 22
Thursday
Venue: RANEPA sites St. Petersburg, public space "SreDa!"
10:00 – 17:00
Section "Economic collaboration and trade cooperation: problems and new challenges in the context of global financial turbulence"
Questions for discussion:
  • Economic cooperation of countries in the field of trade policy;
  • Trade and currency wars and their impact on macroeconomic stability;
  • Ensuring the investment attractiveness of the country in conditions of competition in the capital markets;
  • The influence of political and economic aspects on the economic cooperation of countries;
  • Currency stability in conditions of turbulence of global capital flows;
  • Sectional pressure and its impact in the context of financial globalization.
Moderator: David Iraklievich Tereladze, Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Finance of RANEPA St. Petersburg Wasin Pradislip, Dr. Senior Lecturer, Walailak University, Thailand
Venue: St. Petersburg, Dnepropetrovskaya street, 8
Working language: English (simultaneous interpretation into Russian is provided)
10:00 – 17:00
Strategic session "Perspective model of organization of research activities at RANEPA"
Moderators-presenters:
Medvedeva Oksana Olegovna, Head of the Department of Scientific and Information Development and Library Support of RANEPA
Igor Aleksandrovich Khodachek, Researcher at the Center for Advanced Social Research of RANEPA
Anastasia Vasilevna Maslova, Director of the RANEPA Research Support Center
Savelyev Pavel Sergeevich, Deputy Head of the Scientific Work Department of RANEPA St. Petersburg
Demidov Mikhail Olegovich, Head of the division for scientific projects under the Scientific Department of RANEPA Saint Petersburg
Venue: St. Petersburg, Pesochnaya embarkment, 4
Working language: Russian
10:00 – 17:00
Section "Strategic priorities of ensuring economic and national security of Russia in modern conditions"
Questions for discussion:
  • Ensuring the security of the Russian economy in the conditions of the sanctions policy of unfriendly states;
  • Technological sovereignty of Russia as a factor of strengthening economic and national security;
  • Modernization and development of the Russian military-industrial complex in the context of a Special military operation;
  • Ensuring the security of the individual, society and the state from internal and external threats;
  • The role and interaction of law enforcement agencies in ensuring the national security of Russia.
Moderator: Dmitriev Alexander Viktorovich, Head of the Security Department of RANEPA St. Petersburg
Venue: St. Petersburg, 4, Pesochnaya nab. Academic Council Hall, Auditorium 310.
Working language: Russian
10:00 – 17:00
Section "Digital transformation in Municipal Management"
Questions for discussion:
  • How to change the organization’s approaches to management processes, corporate culture, issues of external interaction, so that it leads to an increase in the effectiveness of the activities of state and municipal government?
  • Do we need structural changes, if the management system changes, do we need special methods, etc.
Moderators:
Likhtin Anatoly Alekseevich, Dean of the Faculty of Public and Municipal Administration of RANEPA St. Petersburg
Tulupyeva Tatiana Valentinovna, Deputy Head of the Department of State and Municipal Administration of RANEPA St. Petersburg
Venue: St. Petersburg, Sredny Prospekt of V.I., 57.
Working language: Russian
10:00 – 17:00
Section "Regional and international experience in the formation of healthy lifestyle in various population groups"
Questions for discussion:
  • How to systematically find new approaches that contribute to the formation of sustainable foundations of healthy lifestyle, overcoming modern challenges for healthy lifestyle, the use of information technology to create individual programs to increase the level of physical fitness, self-control over physical condition?
  • Do we need collective or individual classes according to the program?
  • How to expand healthy lifestyle classes?
Moderators:
Nikolay Vasilyevich Kolesnikov, Head of the Department of Physical Culture and Sports of RANEPA St. Petersburg
Oleg Ponimasov, Associate Professor, Department of Physical Culture and Sports, Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, St. Petersburg
Venue: St. Petersburg, Sredny Prospekt of V.I., 57
Working language: Russian
10:00 – 17:00
Section "Statehood in the conditions of the formation of a multipolar world"
Questions for discussion:
  • The role and place of Russia in a polycentric world;
  • Factors of geopolitical changes and trends of modern development;
  • Sovereignty, status and solvency as characteristics of statehood;
  • Failed States: content, causes and prospects;
  • Transformation of statehood in the context of modern challenges and threats;
  • Political, economic and social consequences of Western countries' pressure on Russia;
  • State manageability as the most important aspect of statehood;
  • Challenges of state governance in the context of digitalization;
  • Principles of controllability in conditions of nonlinearity and uncertainty of development;
  • Publicity and state governance in the context of the development of statehood.
Moderators:
Baranov Nikolay Alekseevich, Professor of the Department of International Relations, RANEPA St. Petersburg
Leonid Vladimirovich Smorgunov, Head of the Department of Political Management of St. Petersburg State University
Venue: St. Petersburg, Tuchkov lane, 7
Working language: Russian
11:00 – 16:00
Section "The role of law in shaping the multipolarity of the modern world"
Questions for discussion:
  • The creation of a multipolar world as the goal of the evolution of the international legal order;
  • Legal traditions: the experience of the past and the present;
  • National legal systems: conditions of coexistence and interaction;
  • Threats and challenges to international law and order;
  • Legal cooperation in the field of protection of human and civil rights and freedoms;
  • Countering threats to environmental safety (the experience of Russia and China).
Moderator: Sergevnin Sergey Lvovich, Dean of the Faculty of Law of RANEPA St. Petersburg
Venue: St. Petersburg, V.I., 8th line, 61, reading room of the RANEPA Scientific Library St. Petersburg
Working languages: Russian, Chinese
10:00 – 16:00
Section "Social meanings and identities: values of a modern person"
Questions for discussion:
  • Gaining knowledge about the social world;
  • How does an individual get the necessary individual experience, on the basis of which his personal identity is formed, since this process is very problematic and exerts significant pressure on a particular social subject in the context of the social policy of the state, as well as corporate responsibility of business;
  • Social meanings, which are inherited units of human social nature;
  • Dynamics, complexities and problems of transferring meanings from one person to another;
  • The disclosure of the potential of the influence of meanings and the designation of their vulnerable places in society;
  • Factors contributing to the use of meanings by manipulators, which is extremely relevant in the conditions of the information society and information warfare.
Moderator: Inna Alexandrovna Vetrenko, Head of the Department of Social Technologies of RANEPA St. Petersburg
Venue: St. Petersburg, Sredny Prospekt of V.I., 57/43
Working languages: Russian, English
10:00 – 17:00
Section "Convergence as a trend in media"
Questions for discussion:
  • Factors and risks of convergence in the modern media space;
  • Transformation of the media space as a result of convergence of media professions — myth or reality?
  • Diversification of media education as a result of convergence of media professions.
Moderator: Kim Maxim Nikolaevich, Head of the Department of Journalism and Media Communications of RANEPA St. Petersburg
Venue: St. Petersburg, Chernyakhovsky stееt, 6/10
Working language: Russian
10:00 – 17:00
Section "Interpretation of History as a strategy for Managing public relations"
Questions for discussion:
  • Psychohistorical Warriors;
  • Technologies of historical manipulation in the school and university curriculum;
  • A fact in History as a PR tool;
  • History of the Russian Federation: facts and their interpretation;
  • The main factual errors that affected the image of the state;
  • Psychology of information wars: historical aspect;
  • The role of historical facts in the process of manipulation of public consciousness;
  • Interpretation of history as a tool for shaping the worldview of society.
Moderators:
Shamakhov Vladimir Aleksandrovich, Scientific Director of RANEPA St. Petersburg
Nikita Vladimirovich Grishanin, Head of the Department of External Communications and Marketing of RANEPA St. Petersburg
Venue: Liteiny prospect, 17−19 Lermontov Library
Working language: Russian
10:30 – 16:00
Section "Creative industries as a driver of territorial development in the paradigm of neo-industrial society"
Questions for discussion:
  • The place and role of creative industries in the development of the Russian Federation;
  • What applies to creative industries: foreign and domestic practice and legislative framework;
  • The concept of the development of creative industries until 2030 and the action plan for the implementation of this concept;
  • Priorities and mechanisms of state support for creative industries in the Russian Federation;
  • Principles and methods of formation of creative clusters in large urban agglomerations;
  • Capitalization of intellectual property in scientific, scientific-technical, cultural and creative activities in the paradigm of the "creative economy";
  • Development of institutional conditions and mechanisms of interaction of subjects of creative (creative) industries for the formation of a sustainable creative ecosystem.
Moderators:
Korolkova Alyona Valeryevna, Marketing Director of the Russian Railways Museum
Rybakova Yulia Lvovna, Deputy Head of the Department for the Implementation of Projects in the Field of tourism in the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation
Morozova Marina Aleksandrovna, Head of the Department of Management in the Field of Tourism and Hotel Business, RANEPA St. Petersburg
Venue: To be specified
Working language: Russian
14:00 – 16:00
Section "New priorities in the development of international economic relations of Russia"
Questions for discussion:
  • Russia in the context of the modern transformation of the system of world economic relations: losses and gains from the curtailment of relations with the West;
  • What are the opportunities and limitations in the development of Russia’s partnership with the countries of Africa, Asia, Latin America?
  • The technological factor and the paradigm of the multipolar structure of the world economy;
  • Industrial and scientific-technical potential of St. Petersburg in the emerging markets.
Moderator: Sergeyev Igor Borisovich, Head of the Department of Management of RANEPA St. Petersburg
Venue: St. Petersburg, 4, Pesochnaya nab. Academic Council Hall, Auditorium 310.
Working language: Russian
The main day of the forum is June 23
Friday
Venue: Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library (Senatskaya Square, 3, Saint Petersburg)
09:00 – 10:00
Registration of participants
10:00 – 10:15
Greeting of participants
Khlutkov Andrey Dragomirovich, Director of RANEPA St. Petersburg
Stanislav Kazarin, Vice-Governor of St. Petersburg
Oleg Ergashev, Vice-Governor of St. Petersburg
Mikhail Valentinovich Romanov, Member of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Control Committee
Ms. Lusmelia Afriani, Rector of Lampung University, Indonesia
10:15 – 12:00
Plenary session in the format of a discussion
Stanislav Kazarin, Vice-Governor of St. Petersburg.
Oleg Nikolaevich Ergashev, Vice-Governor of St. Petersburg.
Romanov Mikhail Valentinovich, Deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Control.
Smirnov Viktor Vladimirovich, Deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, member of the State Duma Committee on Education
Andrei Dragomirovich Khlutkov, Doctor of Economic Sciences, Professor, Director of Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, St. Petersburg
Mr. Ratko Ristic, Vice Rector for International Relations, University of Belgrade, Serbia.
Vladimir Katenev, President of the Union "St. Petersburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry".
Shamakhov Vladimir Alexandrovich, Research Director of RANEPA St. Petersburg, Doctor of Economic Sciences, Candidate of Historical Sciences, Professor, Honorary Professor of RANEPA St. Petersburg, Full State Counselor of the Russian Federation 1st Class.

First rank experts
Korsakov Igor Yurievich, the deputy head of the Republic of Karelia on domestic policy.
Salagaeva Ninel Aleksandrovna, Deputy Governor of the Pskov region.
Eremeev Stanislav Germanovich, deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Leningrad region, chairman of the permanent commission on state structure, international, inter-parliamentary and public relations.
Moderator: Gerasimov Roman Mikhailovich, journalist, TV presenter, winner of the TEFI Award, host of the RANEPA project "Romance with the Academy"
Venue: Hall of Columns
Working languages: Russian, English
12:00 – 12:10
Break
12:10 – 12:50
Signing agreements with foreign and Russian partners
Moderator: Olga Vladimirovna Nesterova, Head of the International Cooperation Department of RANEPA St. Petersburg
Venue: Auditorium 156 (1st floor)
Working languages: Russian, English
12:10 – 13:30
Section "Digitalization of public service staffing"
Discussion questions:
  • Digitalization risks in terms of internal personnel as a potential perpetrator.
  • Improving the cybersecurity competencies of civil servants.
  • Artificial intelligence in training for the civil service: advantages and prospects.
  • Application of big data technologies in training for the civil service.
  • Opportunities of digital departments in the training of civil servants.
Moderator: Dmitry Nikolaevich Astakhov, Director of the Department of Digitalization and Information Infrastructure of RANEPA St. Petersburg
Venue: Column Hall
Working language: Russian
12:10 – 13:30
Section "Customs and Foreign trade: breaking down barriers"
Questions for discussion:
  • What additional measures should be taken in the field of customs regulation to provide a stimulating effect on foreign trade?
  • How does business assess the effectiveness of the measures taken by the customs service?
Moderators:
Hetman Alexander Nikolaevich, Dean of the Faculty of Security and Customs of RANEPA St. Petersburg
Hetman Anastasia Gennadievna, Leading Researcher at the Research Laboratory of Strategic Planning and Eurasian Integration of RANEPA St. Petersburg
Venue: CD Multimedia Hall (2nd floor)
Working language: Russian
12:10 – 13:30
Section "Young Arctic"
Questions for discussion:
  • Contribution to the preparation of future leaders of the Arctic region;
  • Improving the level of professional knowledge of students on the development of the Arctic;
  • Involvement of participants in solving the global challenges of the Arctic through participation in the development of interdisciplinary international projects on the most pressing issues of Arctic development;
  • Ensuring the promotion of the Russian Arctic agenda and the formation of a positive image of Russia in the international scientific space;
  • Strengthening international youth cooperation and the development of scientific diplomacy in the Arctic in the changed conditions.
Moderator: Sergey Ivanovich Krents, Deputy Director of the Center for Arctic Research and Projects of RANEPA St. Petersburg
Venue: Academic Council Meeting Room (3rd floor)
Working language: Russian
12:10 – 13:30
Section "PRO.Expert"
Questions for discussion:
  • The fundamental role of the expert community in making both tactical and strategic managerial decisions, the influence of expert opinions on the decisions made by the authorities.
  • Willingness on the part of the governing subsystem to accept and use the results of expert elaborations.
  • The expert community is motivated by professional independence and intellectual honesty.
  • The expert community: state and non-state experts — do we need a register of experts and expert organizations?
  • Scientific community — the most important expert, what programs universities are ready to offer to future experts?
  • Creation of joint programs, training seminars and conferences.
Moderator: Dmitry Leonidovich Kudryavtsev, Lawyer, Head of Antimonopoly Practice, Managing Partner of CTL Law Office
Venue: Multimedia Hall AB (2nd floor)
Working language: Russian
12:30 – 14:00
Meeting of the Regional Network Academy of Public Administration of the CIS countries
Moderator: Margolin Andrey Markovich, Vice-Rector of RANEPA
Venue: Auditorium 157 (1st floor)
Participation by separate invitations
13:30 – 14:30
Lunch
14:30 – 17:00
Section "The agenda of social inequality in the modern world through the eyes of the young"
Questions for discussion:
  • New facets of social inequality in modern society;
  • Discrimination and practices of working with inequality: domestic and international experience;
  • Achieving digital equality: best practices.
Moderators:
Marina Alexandrovna Kashina, Leading Researcher, Research Laboratory for Strategic Planning and Eurasian Integration, RANEPA St. Petersburg
Sergey Tkach, Young Researcher, Programmer, SPbSU Science Park
Venue: CD Multimedia Hall (2nd floor)
Working language: Russian
14:30 – 17:00
Section "Development of the social sphere. The main thing is the person"
Questions for discussion:
  • Social services. Man-centeredness;
  • The social sphere as one of the drivers of the country's economic development;
  • Social sphere - new territories.
Moderator: Suprunova Evgeniya Vladimirovna, Director of the Scientific and Educational Center of Local Self-Government of the IMRD RANEPA
Venue: Hall of Columns
Working language: Russian
14:30 – 17:00
Section "Effective management of a megacity to reduce the negative impact on the environment and human health"
Questions for discussion:
  • Nuclear and radiation safety;
  • Safety of water bodies;
  • Waste management;
  • Clean air;
  • Resource saving;
  • Development of competencies in the field of ecology.
Moderator: Rogaleva Lyubov Viktorovna, President of the International Academy of Sciences of Ecology, Human Security and Nature (IASES)
Venue: Multimedia Hall AB (2nd floor)
Working language: Russian
14:30 – 17:30
Section "University Management in Russia: challenges and solutions"
Part I "Scientific policy of the University: from the race for publications to solving the problems of scientific and technological sovereignty"
Questions for discussion:
  • Identification of challenges and ways to overcome them for socio-humanitarian universities of Russia in modern conditions;
  • Scientific and expert reputation of the university;
  • Analysis of modern experience in the development of scientific competencies and scientific communication (including the RANEPA branch network);
  • Experience in the creation and main activities of the SSS;
  • Practical results for universities of socio-humanitarian orientation;
  • New approaches to the evaluation of scientific activity.
Moderators:
Medvedeva Oksana Olegovna, Head of the Department of Scientific and Information Development and Library Support of RANEPA, Candidate of Historical Sciences
Khodachek Igor Aleksandrovich, Researcher at the Center for Advanced Social Research of RANEPA, Ph.D.
Venue: Auditorium 157 (1st floor)
Working languages: Russian, English
14:30 – 17:30
Section "University Management in Russia: Challenges and solutions"
Part II "The practice of organizing scientific research in modern conditions"
Questions for discussion:
  • Identification of challenges and ways to overcome them for socio-humanitarian universities of Russia in modern conditions;
  • Scientific and expert reputation of the university;
  • Analysis of modern experience in the development of scientific competencies and scientific communication (including the RANEPA branch network);
  • Experience in the creation and main activities of the SSS;
  • Practical results for universities of socio-humanitarian orientation;
  • New approaches to the evaluation of scientific activity.
Moderators:
Pavel Sergeevich Savelyev, Deputy Head of the Scientific Work Department of RANEPA St. Petersburg
Demidov Mikhail Olegovich, Head of the division for scientific projects under the Scientific Department of RANEPA St. Petersburg
Venue: Auditorium 157 (1st floor)
Working languages: Russian, English
Transformation of Institutions in Russia and the World: Combining the Efforts of the State, Business and Civil Society
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VIII International Nevsky Forum
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