Boiling Points and WorldSkills Russia Juniors won educational Knowledge Award
The award was established to recognize achievements of Russian educators – professors, lecturers, school teachers, companies, media, etc. engaged in educational activities.
The Boiling Points are declared to be the best project in the “For the Contribution to Business Education” category.
“Creating business teams, growing and developing startups, education and involvement of young people in technology entrepreneurship are the key priorities of our work. The Knowledge Award showed us hundreds of good educational projects in science, teaching and business; they will have open access to the Boiling Points spaces and our digital communications with more than two million active people across all Russian regions. We are grateful to the arrangers for this brilliant initiative,” said Andrey Siling, Executive Director, ANO NTI Platform.
The Boiling Points are dealing with business partners, universities and regional development institutions, help local teams to launch and scale projects, support meetings of field-specific communities and contribute to education and career growth of schoolchildren, students, and professionals. 138 Boiling Points, including one international site in Almaty, have been launched with the assistance of the Agency for Strategic Initiatives as of to date.
WorldSkills Russia Juniors was named the best movement in the “For the Contribution to Education in Achievements and Honor of Russia” category. Its main activities include championships and finals by WorldSkills standards, the general skill-oriented program for Field-Specific Technology Teams, and Skills Days festivals of career navigation.
“For five years, the junior movement has been scaled up exponentially. We started with three competencies at WorldSkills Abu Dhabi 2017 and now there are already more than a hundred of them. The events of the movement include not only championships, but also thematic shifts. The movement is developing because it is popular among students, parents, educational organizations, and industrial partners. This year, major Russian regions took an active interest in events of the junior movement,” said Oleg Bazer, Deputy Director General for Implementation of Regional Standard of Staffing for Industrial Growth, WorldSkills Russia.
In 2021, the Russian Knowledge Award is awarded for the first time. In total, more than 3,000 applications from 80 Russian regions were received. 103 nominees became finalists, with 28 awardees in 15 categories, including major federal projects and educational contests, such as Bolshaya Peremena (‘School Recess’), Festival SCIENCE 0+, Delphic Games, Russian Language Ambassadors to the World, and the Great Russian Encyclopedia.