The four-day program of the "Volga Coasts" was held on the territory of the country center "Dzerzhinets" in the Kstovsky district of the Nizhny Novgorod region. There gathered students from different universities of the Volga Federal District - leaders and activists of student councils, associations, leaders of youth communities. The University of Physical Culture, Sports and Tourism, as well as Kazan and Tatarstan as a whole, were represented by Vsevolod Aleksandrov and Rail Vafin, second-year students of the International Institute of Hotel Management and Tourism, specializing in Sports Management.
All the guys at the Volga Coast site plunged into very intensive work. Lectures, master classes, trainings, round tables, business games on student self-government and personal growth were held from early morning until late at night. Educational blocks were replaced by practical exercises. For example, on the third day of the event, a large-scale entrepreneurial game took place, when the participants had to create and immediately launch a business idea. The guys worked both together and as part of several teams. Each of them needed to think about the question: what are her superpowers? And this topic - the superpower of youth - has become the leitmotif of the entire forum.
The speakers of the Volga Coasts platform were, among others, Dmitry Mishin, a member of the bureau of the Central Committee of the Russian Youth Union, a trainer and an expert in the field of social technologies, Nikolay Zhdanov, the project manager of the RSM Student Self-Government Program, and Alexander Timofeev, a federal expert of Rosmolodezh.Grants .
- I would like to especially note the classes on the topic "Corporate culture of the team", - Vsevolod Alexandrov shares his impressions. – It was useful to think about what aspects make up the culture of the student council team and how it can be improved. And the trainings from Ekaterina Bosova, an activist with extensive experience in organizing student events and projects from the Nizhny Novgorod State University named after N.I. Lobachevsky, turned out to be simply unforgettable. In her classes, we looked deep into ourselves, looked at the fears, at the limiting beliefs that hinder us in life. It was very useful, like many other things on the Volga Coast.
“I would also like to emphasize that this project gave us new acquaintances,” says Rail Vafin. – We managed to communicate with representatives of different universities of the Volga Federal District, all the guys turned out to be open and interesting personalities. We would especially like to single out colleagues from the Volga branch of the Russian University of Justice (Nizhny Novgorod). We spent all three days of the forum shoulder to shoulder and exchanged experiences. We agreed on cooperation, we are planning to hold joint events already on the territory of Kazan.”
For reference: The district platform for the development of student self-government bodies "Volga Coast" has existed since 2016. The initiators and organizers of this forum were the Nizhny Novgorod regional organization of the Russian Youth Union and the Nizhny Novgorod regional branch of the Association of Student Associations of Russia. During the existence of the project, the Volga Coasts have become a school for the leaders of student councils, where you can get the necessary competencies and technologies for organizing student self-government in your educational organization.
