Methods of Working with the Youth
Master's Degree Program

Plan of acceptance for 2014: budget (15 places (full-time education), non-budget (full-time and distance forms of education)
Educational fee: 60000 rubles a year (distance form of education), 110000 rubles a year (full-time form of education).

The master’s degree program Methods of Working with the Youth set up in Sholokhov Moscow State University for the Humanities is the only master’s program in Russia that is delivered under the patronage of the Federal Agency on Youth Affairs of the Russian Federation (Rosmolodezh).

Educational program includes:

• participating in the preparation of the annual report on the youth for the Russian Government;
• conducting academic research into current youth problems;
• undergoing practical trainings in government agencies and Russia’s leading youth forums (Seliger, Smena, etc.);
• participating in the educational project Another City (youth initiatives in housing and utility sector);
• organizing developing and managing actual youth projects;
• conducting examination activities in youth policy, meeting both Russian an world standards.

Practical trainings

• Federal Coordination Center of the Development of Career-Oriented Potential of Youth Policy in the Russian Federation (Sholokhov Moscow State University for the Humanities) 
• Volunteer Center (Sholokhov Moscow State University for the Humanities) 
• Rosmolodezh 
• Rospatriotcentr
• The Public Chamber of Russia
• Moscow Youth Multifunctional Center
• Federal state-financed institution International Children’s Center
• Federal children’s health center Smena
• National children’s center Orlenok
• All-Russian Youth Forum Seliger

Workshops, meetings

• S.Y. Belokonev, Head of the Federal Agency on Youth Affairs of the Russian Federation, PhD in Politics 
• S.V. Chuev, Head of the Federal state-financed institution Rospatriotcentr, PhD in History
• V.V. Ovchinnikov, Head of Moscow Youth Multifunctional Center
• D.E. Gribov, Head of the Federal state-financed institution International Children’s Center
• A.V. Chadaev, Head of the analytical center Mosregion, Russian journalist and public person
• O.A. Matveychev, writer, political consultant, Professor of National Research University Higher School of Economics

QUALIFICATIONS

Master’s degree in Working with the Youth, Master’s program: Methods of Working with the Youth 

Certificates: 

• Youth Projects Specialist
• Youth Project Manager

Skill to gain:

• Knowledge of regulatory documents in working with the youth, ability to apply them and also draft bylaws
• Ability to analyze and expertise youth policy
• Knowledge of methods and methodology of academic research in youth issues
• Ability to set up youth social organizations and manage them
• Developed project thinking: ability to launch, manage and deliver youth projects
• Mastered professional self-actualization techniques and career strategies

Employment prospects

Heads of structural units, leading specialists in youth policy in the following institutions and their subdivisions:

• The Federal Agency on Youth Affairs of the Russian Federation 
• The Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation
• committees on Youth Affairs in sub-sovereign entities
• federal youth centers
• federal youth projects 

PARTRERS

• The Federal Agency on Youth Affairs of the Russian Federation http://www.fadm.gov.ru/
• The Federal state-financed institution Rospatriotcentr http://rospatriotcentr.ru/
• Chief Expert Center of the Federal Supervision Service in the Sphere of Education and Science http://obrnadzor.gov.ru/ru/about/subordinated_organizations/glavekspertc...
• The Public Chamber of Russia http://www.oprf.ru/
• Federal state-financed institution International Children’s Center http://www.w-center.ru/
• Moscow Youth Multifunctional Center http://mymfc.ru/
• Federal children’s health center Smena
• Local committees on youth affairs
• Youth social organizations
• Trans-regional centers for developing human resources potential in youth policy

Adress: 9, Ryzansky Prospekt, Moscow

Travel directions: 

1. From the metro station Ryzansky Prospekt:
buses 143, 143к, 29к (weekend)
share taxis 63м, 279м (weekend), 351м, 429м, 443м, 463м
trolley buses 63, 63к 

2. From the railway station Kursky:
by train till the station Karacharovo

3. From the metro stations Taganskaya and Marksistskaya:
bus 51
share taxis 463м, 63м, 316м
trolley buses 63к, 16, 63, 26 

Telephone number: (499) 174-84-68.

• Popova Svetlana Yurevna
• 8-968-785-41-33