III INTERNATIONAL YOUTH EDUCATIONAL FORUM

THE ARCTIC. MADE IN RUSSIA

On March 27 April 2, 2017 the III International Youth

Educational Forum The Arctic. Made in Russia will be held in the city
of Arkhangelsk (Northern Russia) on the sidelines of the International
Arctic Forum Arctic Territory of Dialogue.
The event will bring together more than 180 young specialists,
scientists, masters and postgraduate students from Russia and other
countries represented in the Arctic Council and states-observers to the
Arctic Council in the age of 20-35 years old, whose research or creative
interests focus on the Arctic and on the North as a whole, including
geologists, oceanographers, hydrometeorologists, project managers,
industrial architects, health professionals, experts in the design and
operation of transport infrastructure, experts industrial power,
industrial and technosphere safety, transport logistics specialists,
builders and designers of CBC and the GTS, shipbuilders,
environmentalists, economists, lawyers.
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Over the course of the Forum, teams of young specialists will work
together to create the most effective strategies for developing the
support zones of the Arctic region. This work will lay the foundations
for the establishment of a young workforce to implement Russias most
significant projects in the Arctic.
10 teams of 18 people each will be formed on the basis of 14
Russian specialists, 3 foreign specialists and 1 member of the
Indigenous People of the North. They will go through an educational
program.
The topic of the program is the real challenge for the
development of the concept of the reference areas (development
zones) in the Arctic.
The participants will meet and debate with the heads of
corporations operating in the Arctic region, ministers, professors from
the Russian Academy of Sciences and rectors of Russia's major
universities.
The roundtable participants and leading experts will discuss the
following topics:
1. Formation of reference areas (development zones) in the
Arctic as the main mechanism for implementation of the Russian
state program Social-Economic Development of the Russian
Federation in the Arctic region till 2020
2. Development of transport accessibility and infrastructure
support areas land, air and sea transport
3. Legal regulation of the Northern Sea Route functioning
4. Urban development in the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation
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5. Health development in the Arctic zone training of personnel

and delivery of care in remote areas
6. Development and provision of human resources to the Arctic
region.
A major objective of the Forum is to encourage young specialists
to consolidate and create communities of scientists and other experts,
whose aim is to come up with solutions to the most significant
challenges facing the development of Arctic zone, and also to increase
and develop the human resource potential necessary to provide
a qualified workforce for Arctic projects.
Travel expenses to and from Moscow are covered by participants.
Transportation to and from Arkhangelsk (tbc), meals and accommodation
in Arkhangelsk will be provided by organizers for the duration of the
forum.
For further questions please contact representative of the Federal
Agency for Youth Affairs of the Russian Federation Ms. Karina
Chuykova kchuykova@fadm.gov.ru, +7 495 668 80 08 (2406),
Mr. Sergei Gladysh sdgladysh@gmail.com.