On August 6-7, 2020, as part of the events of the Group of Strategic vision "Russia - Islamic world", an online conference of the international summer school "Bulgarian dialogue of cultures – 2020" will be held on the theme "Youth volunteer movement: the experience of Russia and the Islamic world".
The event is organized by the Foundation for Strategic Dialogue and Partnership with the Islamic World and the Bulgarian Islamic Academy with the support of the Ministry of Youth Affairs of the Republic of Tatarstan. The event will take place during the first stage of work of the Rosmolodezh Project office for international youth cooperation "Russia – OIC". Partners of the project are the Academy of youth diplomacy, Kazan, and Selet Youth Foundation.
Using the Internet platform for the conference will expand the project's geography and strengthen the dialogue between the youth of Russia and the countries of the Islamic world in the face of political turbulence in the world.
The project aims to create conditions for the development of relations between youth organizations and volunteer associations; exchange of practical experience of participants of the volunteer movement from Russian regions and foreign countries.
The forum program will include speeches by the leaders of major Russian and international organizations and agencies, including the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, the Islamic Cooperation Youth Forum, the Foundation for Strategic Dialogue and Partnership with the Islamic world, and the Ministry of Youth Affairs of the Republic of Tatarstan. Also representatives of the Association of volunteer centers and religious associations of the Russian Federation as the Religious Boards of Russia and the Republic Tatarstan, Kazan theological Seminary, the Kazan Jewish community will address greetings to the participants of the event.
Organizers of volunteer projects and their participants from Lebanon ("Victory Volunteers" and "Young leader's School"), Egypt (Ministry of Youth and Sports), Tunisia (Women's volunteer movement), and Syria will join the forum. The representative office of Rossotrudnichestvo in Lebanon and the representative office of the Russian Federation to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in Jeddah expressed interest in organizing master classes at the forum.
Representatives of Russian charitable foundations "Solidarity" (Moscow), "Dom dobroty" ("The house of kidness"), "Zakat" ( Moscow), the environmental movement "Budet chisto" ("It will be clean", Kazan), Kazan) and representatives of the volunteer group "Delai dobrye dela" ("Do good deeds", Derbent) will share their practical experience of the volunteer movement in modern conditions.
Russian Instagram bloggers will demonstrate the availability of volunteer activity for civil society.
On the final day of the forum, the results of the video contest will be summed up, as well as the best projects of the presentation of the volunteer's personal brand will be demonstrated. Participants of the international summer school "Bulgarian dialogue of cultures-2020" will receive certificates of participation in the conference.
The event will be broadcast live on the website of the Group of strategic vision "Russia-Islamic world".
August 6, 2020
1st day, beginning 11:00
August 7, 2020
2nd day, beginning 10:00
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