Call for applications to participate in the Russian-German forum on cultural diplomacy supported by the Gorchakov Fund

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Institute for Economic Strategies of the Social Sciences Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow and Russian-German Center VIKA in Hannover are inviting to participate in the Russian-German International Forum “Cultural Diplomacy in the 21st century: new challenges, new solutions”.

The forum will be held in Moscow at the Ethnographic Park and Museum Etnomir (the Kaluga region) on April 11-14, 2016. It will become a public platform for discussions among socially active creative youth from Russia and German and will provide young people with an opportunity to interact with each other.

The forum will be held in the format of plenary sessions, discussions and a business game and will create certain conditions for the participants to understand the current situation, develop new approaches and tools of cultural diplomacy, international youth cooperation and start their own joint creative projects.

The forum is held with financial support of the Alexander Gorchakov Public Diplomacy Fund, Russian Coordination Bureau on Youth Exchanges with the Federal Republic of Germany (Moscow, Russia), the German-Russian Youth Exchange Foundation (Hamburg, Germany), the Lower Saxony Institute for Social, Family and Youth Affairs (Hannover, Germany).

A full text of the article in Russian can be found here.