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Dmitry Chernyshenko at a meeting with participants of the new season of the project “Institute of Advisors on Social Change”
Dmitry Chernyshenko, Sergey Kravtsov and Gleb Nikitin talked to the participants of the new season of the project “Institute of Advisors on Social Change”
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Dmitry Chernyshenko at a meeting with participants of the new season of the project “Institute of Advisors on Social Change”
On May 30, 2025, in Nizhny Novgorod, at the site of the Corporate University of the Government of the Nizhny Novgorod Region (KUPNO), training for participants in the fourth stream of the project “Institute of Advisors for Social Change” started. Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko, Minister of Education Sergei Kravtsov and Governor of the Nizhny Novgorod Region Gleb Nikitin spoke with the participants of the event.
The Institute of Advisors for Social Change project is a cross-sector free program of the People’s Front project “Region of Care” and KUPNO, implemented with the support of the government of the Nizhny Novgorod region with the participation of RANEPA. It unites civil servants, managers and employees of NPOs, representatives of socially responsible businesses and the media and allows for the preparation of leaders of change in the social sphere.
Since the project began, 115 people from 33 regions of Russia have already completed specialized training. More than 40 people have become students of the fourth training stream. They will have to develop projects in such areas as helping teenagers in crisis situations, reorganizing boarding schools, palliative care for children and adults, preventing social orphanhood, and many others. The main goal of the training is to help specialists restructure their work so as to proceed from the interests of the person, while using the strengths of partner organizations.
“Today we could not help but come here, where they train social change advisers, first of all out of respect for you and your work. As the President teaches us, in public administration it is precisely this kind of direct communication that helps make wise decisions and effectively build processes. It is very important to check the real situation and take into account that it can even have a destructive effect if the situation is incorrectly interpreted and unrepresentative data is used. What you do is a great responsibility, you must be professionals of the highest level in order to fully justify the enormous trust that has been placed in you. Especially in such an area as social change. Of course, these changes must be positive,” noted Dmitry Chernyshenko.
“We pay great attention to the education system, it is important that it is consistent – starting with kindergarten, then continuing in school, college, and university. On the instructions of the President of Russia, education in our country is built on the basis of traditional spiritual and moral values. We care about the fact that all children, including children with disabilities, have access to the development of their talents and self-realization,” said Minister of Education Sergey Kravtsov.
According to Gleb Nikitin, the Institute of Advisors is a unique project to train leaders of change in the social sphere. The educational program gives participants an impetus to develop social innovations both in their home regions and at the federal level.
“Together with the Region of Care and my advisor Nyuta Federmesser, we started implementing social change projects in the field of working with people with disabilities and disabilities five years ago. And at the initial stage, we went through many difficulties, overcoming the rigidity of the system. Some people had to be made to remember what humanity is. When faced with callousness, sometimes the inability to change something, when a person is having a hard time, feeling bad, you ask yourself: how can this be changed? We understood one thing clearly: we need to work with those who permanently live in social institutions and have health restrictions. All this requires a huge heart and a very special way of thinking. The Institute of Advisors project brought together exactly these people – supporters, caring and charged with changes for the better,” said Gleb Nikitin.
Today, among the graduates of the “Institute of Advisors” of previous years, there are already 22 specialists from the Nizhny Novgorod region. Experts show in practice how to change the work of social institutions for the better, give wards more freedom of choice, fill people’s lives with new meanings.
Director of the Department of State Policy in the Sphere of Education, Supplementary Education and Children’s Recreation of the Ministry of Education, Hero of Russia, participant of the program “Time of Heroes” Igor Yurgin joined the words of Sergey Kravtsov and noted that in the year of the 80th anniversary of the Victory and in the Year of the Defender of the Fatherland, it is important to remember that the participants of the SVO defend the values of the state. And among them, the upbringing of children, youth, assistance to children with disabilities is one of the main ones.
The author of the People’s Front project “Region of Care”, adviser to the Governor of the Nizhny Novgorod Region Nyuta Federmesser emphasized that systemic changes can be introduced into the work of state institutions only with the assistance of a motivated and caring public and government.
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