15.02.2018  Youth Academy of Public Administration is recognized as one of the best mentoring practices in Russia

Yesterday, on February 14, the winners of the first all-Russian contest “Best Mentoring Practices” were awarded at the VDNKh (Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy), - the website of the Regional Ministry of Public Administration reports.

The Diploma of the Finalist in the nomination “Mentoring in Public Administration” was presented to Ilya Bortsevich, the acting Minister of Public Administration of the Novgorod region, for the practice “Mentoring of the Youth Academy of Public Administration students in Novgorod region”.

The practice implemented by the Ministry of Public Administration of the Novgorod region in cooperation with the Yaroslav-the-Wise Novgorod State University entered the top 100 best practices.

The competition was organized by the Agency for Strategic Initiatives. The aim of the competition is to develop the mentoring movement and replication of mentoring practices, improvement of social status of the mentor. In total, more than 4 thousand applications were submitted for participation in the contest.

The Ministry of Public Administration of the Novgorod region currently has a number of successful proven practices to work with students of the educational organizations in the region, to attract them to the state civil service. 

One of the practices is named “Involving young specialists in the state civil service of the Novgorod region”. In 2016, it was recognized as one of the best in the all-Russian competition “Best human resources strategies and practices in the public civil and municipal service” and was acknowledged by the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Russian Federation. 

Since then, personnel practice has received a new vector of development and has been transformed into the practice “Organization of mentoring for students of the Youth Academy of Public Administration in the Novgorod region”. The Youth Academy was established in 2015 in the structure of Yaroslav-the-Wise Novgorod state University. The  goals are to improve the preparation of young people for management; to select the leading students of educational organizations of the Novgorod region and to teach them additionally in the field of the state and municipal government; to rain a personnel reserve for authorities of the Novgorod region.

Listeners of the Youth Academy are the leading graduate students of all the schools of the Novgorod State University, of Novgorod branch of Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, who actively participate in social and scientific life, demonstrate organizational and leadership skills.  

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