OREANDA-NEWS. The second module of the integrated programme “Arkhangelsk Region Outlook: Strategy and Development Resources” begins at the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO. It will be held from February 25 to March 1 and dedicated to the region analysis and alternative development strategies.

The programme’s participants, 50 region government’s and Northern Arctic Federal University’s (NAFU) employees and representatives of local organizations, will take part in project and plenary work and attend the Russian and foreign experts’ lectures. The following activities are planned for the second module: a meeting with Vladislav Surkov, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, a master-class on scenario planning with Adam Gordon, Head of Executive Education at the Wits Business School (Johannesburg), and lectures of Maxim Shereykin, Deputy Governor of Kaluga Region, Vladimir Preobrajensky, Director of Research at the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO, and others.

“The programme’s task is to define the region’s development goals and identify the exact steps in this direction using a format of an open dialogue between the business leaders, Arkhangelsk region government and NAFU”, says Denis Konanchuk, Head of the SKOLKOVO Education Development Centre. “The first module was dedicated to the situation analysis and discussing the “region” concept. The programme’s participants have formed seven project groups according to the principal development directions for Arkhangelsk region and the Arctic territories. At the second module they are going to elaborate different scenarios of the region development and present them to the region’s leaders”.

The programme consists of six five-day modules that will take place from the end of January to the end of June at the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO. The Arkhangelsk region’s governor and the NAFU rector are going to take part in the elaboration of the region development proposals and discuss the groups’ intermediate results at the end of each module. Before the programme completion the participants will have to defend their projects in front of the region’s leaders.