From Asia Pacific, to Arab states and Africa, Latin America and Caribbean, the Global South regions share not only transitory histories from colonialism to the industrial revolution, but a plethora of cultural and economic assets that pave for a new world order.

During the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Friends for Leadership with AsiaTV and AfricaTV are launching the Global South Initiative to bring together next generation Global South, in solidarity at local, regional and global levels, towards inclusive participation, innovation and entrepreneurship.

Together, we aspire to achieve the following:
- To encourage the mutual development of global south civil society, artists, entrepreneurs, policy
makers, worldwide through dialogues and other capacity building workshops
- To promote the Sustainable Development Goals within our own communities, while supporting
the Global South regions, to be their own agents of positive change

Moderator:
Roman Chukov — Chairman of the Board, Russian Center for the Promotion of International Initiatives

Speakers:
Regine Stephanie Borja Guevara — Producer, Asia TV
Мария Гинзбург — руководитель АНО «Молодежное объединение развития международного сотрудничества»
Milos Jovanovic — President, OpenLink Group
Xander Pratt — Creative Director, Asia and Africa TV
Rodrigo Giorgi Reis — Executive Director, Instituto Global Attitude
Daniel Hugo Santos — Member Philippine-Russian Business assembly
Thandile Fikeni — Chief Executive Officer, WIB Group

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The World Youth Festival 2024 will take place according to the decree of the Russian President Vladimir Putin in Russia. It will unite the most progressive young people on the planet who are concerned about our shared future. The Festival will bring together 20,000 young people, 10,000 from Russia and 10,000 from more than 180 countries. They will gather to discuss a more just, truly democratic and multipolar world order. For the first time in the history of the festival movement, teenagers from 14 to 17 years old will have the opportunity to share their dreams. Russia is ready to welcome the guests on the Sirius Federal Territory from March 1st – March 7th, 2024. Business, cultural and sports programs will be run for the participants. Selected participants will also be able to take part in the regional program. Above all, the Festival is a meeting point, and a space for young creatives, visionaries and dreamers to collectively pave the way towards a new and worthy future for all of us!

Speaker:
Larisa Sulima — Deputy Director General for Regional Cooperation of the Directorate of the World Youth Festival

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The creation of campuses in the Far East is seen as a factor in the transformation of science, education and technological entrepreneurship in order to reduce the migration outflow of young people. However, in order to understand how world-class campuses affect the development of human capital, it is important to comprehensively study the possibilities of productive interaction between technological business, government, education and science within the new urban environment. The emergence of a world-class campus should stimulate the development of new scientific areas, new approaches to education, the development of new technological businesses and can simultaneously become an assembly point and transformation of a modern city, changing points of interest and attraction, environment and culture of interaction.

- What should Far Eastern campuses be like, do they have a special code and identity?
- How to ensure world-class quality and service in the Far East campus?
- Will the campus ensure seamless interaction between the university, business and the city?
- How does the campus affect business activity?
- What is the role of campuses in the programming of the territory and the socio-cultural development of the city?
- How to effectively manage campuses and support the educational, scientific and innovative component?

Moderator:
Yury Saprykin — Vice President for Regional and International Development, Skolkovo Foundation

Speakers:
Alisa Denisova — Executive Director of the Business Block, VEB.RF; General Director, Proshkola
Kirill Kovalevskiy — General Director, Innofarm-DV
Yury Marfin — Acting Rector, Pacific State University
Stanislav Neverov — General Director, East Arctic Oil and Gas Corporation
Andrey Omelchuk — Deputy Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation
Alexander Samardak — Acting Rector, Sakhalin State University

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Science and technology form the keystone of global competitiveness and are crucial to economic growth and social prosperity. However, little progress can be made without focusing on new knowledge and effectively applying it in everyday life. This means that education in the sciences is now beginning to play a key role, both in terms of fostering a general scientific culture in society, and in making science an appealing career option for young people. Numerous initiatives have already been launched as part of the Decade of Science and Technology in Russia, with the aim of expanding the scope of education in the sciences. Whether these are successful depends on many factors. These include the people who are involved and their ability to interact together, communication channels, the accessibility of information and the way it is presented, the content and reach of said information, and cultural, social and other aspects relating to the audience. This poses new questions and challenges for those involved in science-related communications. Is there open and equal access to knowledge in the field of popular science? What should be the goals underlying science-related communications, and how should these best be achieved? Who is the target audience for content relating to popular science? What are their interests? How can the results of scientific work be presented in an appealing way, without running the risk of losing the substance under fancy packaging? Is it possible to foster a scientific culture in society? If so, how? What indicators should be used to assess the social impact of efforts to popularize science?

Moderator:
Konstantin Fursov — Advisor to the General Director of the Polytechnic Museum for Science and Education; Associate Research Professor at ITMO University; member of the Coordinating Council for Youth Affairs in the scientific and educational fields

Speakers:
Irina Belykh — Program Director, Festival of Contemporary Scientific Films “FANK”, curator of the “Science as Art” initiative of the Decade of Science and Technology
Andrey Blinov — Deputy General Director, Russian Science Foundation
Stepan Kalmykov — Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vice-President, Russian Academy of Sciences; scientific director of the Faculty of Chemistry, Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov
Andrey Kozhanov — Director of the Center for Academic Development of Students, National Research University Higher School of Economics; Director of the branch of the Russian Society "Knowledge" in Moscow
Ekaterina Mokeeva — Advisor to the RT editor-in-chief on personnel training
Alexey Paevsky — Scientific journalist, co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Neuronovosti.Ru portal; director of the projects “Living History of Science”, “Ten Years of the History of Science” and “History of Neuroscience in Biographies”; expert of the project office of the Decade of Science and Technology (online)
Olga Petrova — Deputy Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation
Konstantin Ruder — Deputy Director of the Communications Department, Rosatom State Corporation
Olga Starikova — Head of the Directorate for Support of National Projects and Traditional Media, ANO “National Priorities”

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