On April 3, the final seminar of the Special Course for Youth took place, where its participants discussed the main problems identified during the lectures, and then developed approaches to solving them. Their work concluded on April 5: together, the participants finalized the document, thus working out the final youth points to be presented at the forum’s closing ceremony on April 7.
As part of the Special Course program, the participants listened to six lectures, and also joined two seminars, where they brainstormed the youth message.
Lectures at the special course were delivered by RIGF 2025 speakers and invited experts: Mikhail Anisimov (ICANN), Alexei Lukatsky (Positive Technologies), Andrei Goncharov (Skoltech), Yury Kolotaev (St. Petersburg State Univeristy), Maria Bolshakova (Regional Commonwealth in the Field of Communications) and Yekaterina Starostina (M1Cloud).
After the lectures, the course participants started working on the main points: they interacted on a group work platform in asynchronous mode and also discussed ideas at seminars, where they were joined by course curator Anastasia Savelyeva (St. Petersburg State University of Telecommunications) and the invited expert, Arevik Martirosyan (Diplomatic Academy of the Foreign Ministry, International Cybersecurity School). Martirosyan noted that the participants’ proposals were highly detailed, and also gave recommendations on how to improve them.
The points worked out by the course participants were presented at the RIGF 2025 closing ceremony on April 7. They offered a youth perspective on the current internet governance agenda. The full and short versions of the final points of the RIGF 2025 Special Course are published on the official webpage of the event.
The next project in the Coordination Center’s educational initiative ecosystem was announced at the RIGF 2025 closing ceremony: Internet Governance Summer School 2025. The summer school will continue the educational track on internet governance and provide participants with a unique opportunity to systematize their knowledge, exchange experiences, and gain group work skills.
Applications for the Summer School will open in June. The exact dates will be announced later, including on the school’s website, where you can already find the results from previous years.
