Representatives of Friends for Leadership, the international network of next generation leaders and entrepreneurs will take part in the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. The delegation from different countries is formed by the Roscongress Foundation together with Rossotrudnichestvo and Centre for International Promotion Fund.
Friends for Leadership, a permanent international pool of next generation leaders, was created with a support of the Roscongress Foundation at SPIEF’18. It brings together people involved in the creation and promotion of multilateral economic and humanitarian cooperation projects.
“International youth cooperation is one of the important areas of foreign policy activities. A number of tasks is being implemented under the New Generation Programme, approved by Presidential Decree #1394 of 19 October 2011 "On approval of the concept of the programme of short-term study tours of young representatives of political, social, scientific and business circles of foreign states to the Russian Federation." The objectives of the programme are aimed at strengthening humanitarian cooperation between Russia and its foreign partners, promotion of professional contacts between young people, promoting an impartial perception of Russia and strengthening its positive image around the world," said Sergei Vershinin, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.
The partners of the New Generation Programme are the Federative Council of the Russian Federation and the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation, as well as the Council of Young Diplomats of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Roscongress Foundation.
Representatives of Friends for Leadership regularly participate in events organized by the Roscongress Foundation. In 2019, under the New Generation Program, 42 delegates from 29 countries took part in a special Friends for Leadership session at SPIEF.
In January 2020, the session entitled ‘Friends for Leadership 2020: New Horizons in Global Cooperation for Sustainable Development’ was held on the sidelines of the Russia House in Davos, where specific projects and best practices in the areas of social entrepreneurship, education, technology, sustainable cities, and promotion of the UN Sustainable Development Goals were presented.
