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Source: Peter the Great St Petersburg Polytechnic University – Peter the Great St Petersburg Polytechnic University –
From March 24 to 28, the 15th St. Petersburg International Educational Forum (SPIEF) is taking place in St. Petersburg — one of the leading professional events in the Russian education sector. The program includes more than 350 events of various formats at 200 venues in St. Petersburg on four tracks: “Personnel for the Economy and Technological Sovereignty”, “Teacher”, “Education of a Citizen”, “Children with Special Educational Needs”. The 2025 forum is held under the motto “Global Challenges — Local Solutions”, emphasizing the role of the teacher in a rapidly changing world.
In 2025, Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University will participate in 32 events of the forum and will also be the organizer of four events. The main objective of the Polytechnic University’s participation is to introduce school teachers, career guidance specialists, and college employees to the opportunities that the university provides for students. The University will also present programs and events that allow applicants to learn more about the Polytechnic University to make it easier for them to decide on their choice of higher education institution and their future career.
The first event of the St. Petersburg International Educational Forum with the participation of the Polytechnic University was the practical conference “New Paradigm of Engineering and Technological Education of Schoolchildren”, organized by Gymnasium No. 642 “Earth and Universe”. Varvara Sotova, Director of the Center for the Formation of the Contingent of Students, took part in the panel discussion. The conference is dedicated to solving the issues of training engineering personnel and the role of general education organizations in achieving technological sovereignty through a system of career guidance, organization of targeted training and employment of graduates at industrial enterprises of the region.
At the conference “Pre-professional training and creation of a comprehensive environment for professional self-determination of schoolchildren”, held in Lyceum No. 144, Artem Egupov, director of the Center for work with applicants, spoke, sharing his experience of conducting career guidance work and the specifics of organizing engineering education at the Polytechnic University.
At the seminar “A New Generation of Engineers: Who and How Prepares Personnel?” Acting Director of the Center for Work with Educational Organizations Georgy Shkolnik presented advanced approaches and methods of working with educational institutions that have been successfully applied at the university. Particular attention was paid to additional education programs that allow students to delve deeper into their chosen field of activity even before entering the university.
Senior teacher of additional education of the Higher Engineering School Maria Sinitsyna spoke at the seminar “Support for pre-professional self-determination of primary school students in the field of engineering professions and professions in the natural sciences.” She shared the successful experience of the Academy, aimed at developing the interest of schoolchildren in information technology and engineering. The programs allow children to gradually deepen their knowledge in the field of programming, robotics and other engineering disciplines, which helps them prepare for admission to in-demand IT and technical areas at the university.
Nikolai Snegiryov, Head of the Directorate of Pre-University Education and Talent Attraction, took part in one of the sections of the discussion platform, “Personnel for a High-Tech Economy: Challenges and Solutions.” Nikolai emphasized the importance of a continuous process of education and training, which begins at school and continues at all subsequent stages of professional training. Particular attention was paid to the issues of early self-determination of schoolchildren and students. Strategies aimed at helping young people choose their professional trajectory were discussed, including holding career guidance events and implementing specialized classes jointly with enterprises in the country.
Polytechnic also took part in the scientific and practical seminar “Formation of the inventive culture of students: from idea to implementation”, where the speaker was Andrey Shimchenko, senior lecturer of the Higher School of Advanced Digital Technologies of the Advanced Engineering School “Digital Engineering”.
The final event of the first day of the forum was the interregional competition of project and research works of schoolchildren of grades 8–11 “Intelligence of the Future. I am a Researcher”, where students and teachers of the Polytechnic University served on the jury.
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