The launch of the award crowns a five-year period of rapid development of career guidance in Russia, which has already reached 8.4 million schoolchildren and more than 60,000 teachers, as well as almost 12,000 partners and experts, regional operators. The national award was established by the Humanitarian Projects Foundation with the support of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation and is part of the “Ticket to the Future” project for early vocational guidance for schoolchildren in grades 6-11. The purpose of the award is to celebrate the achievements of people, organizations and projects that contribute to the professional self-determination of young people, help them choose a profession and build a successful career. Participants in the award were teachers, authors of corporate practices, methods, scientific works in the field of career guidance, and individual school projects. The main selection criterion is that the declared projects help schoolchildren decide on the choice of a future profession and consciously direct their educational and professional interests.
“We live in an era of change, when professional choice is becoming one of the most important decisions in a person’s life. The “Russia – My Horizons” award is designed to recognize those who help young people consciously approach the choice of profession, and also provide them with the opportunity to gain new knowledge and skills that will be useful in the future. I am confident that the award will become one of the driving factors in the further development of such an important matter for our country and education as career guidance,” said Ivan Yesin, head of the Humanitarian Projects Foundation.
In total, over three thousand applications from all regions of Russia were submitted for participation in the competition, from which the expert council selected more than 70 projects for the shortlist.
The winners of the first national award were:
Yulia Pivovarova from the Rostov region, as the organizer of the “Best Career Guidance Project of 2023”.
Sorokin Valery Albertovich from Khakassia and Kuzina Svetlana Sergeevna from the Nizhny Novgorod region were awarded the titles “Teacher No. 1 in career guidance in Russia.”
The authors of “The Best Career Guidance Practices for the Family” were Kutsenko Galina Anatolyevna, Shatova Lyubov Igorevna, Reznichenko Elena Sergeevna, Maslova Anastasia Yuryevna, Kuzina Svetlana Sergeevna, Volobueva Marina Ivanovna and Motorina Natalya Yuryevna from the Nizhny Novgorod region.
In the category “Best media content in the field of career guidance” the award was taken by Daria Valerievna Groza from the Voronezh region, and “New technologies in career guidance” by Lyudmila Aleksandrovna Sinacheva from the Perm Territory.
“The best project in the field of career guidance in a smart environment (IT, science, education)” was created and launched by Alexandra Andreevna Yarotskaya, Valeria Andreevna Sidorova, Valeria Vladimirovna Yavdoshchuk from the Murmansk region. The best project in the field of career guidance in the business environment – Miritskaya Ekaterina Aleksandrovna and Petrova Nadezhda Valerievna from the Tomsk region.
Among the organizations that led the career guidance direction in the country, the award was given to “The Best Educational Project on Professions” – State Budgetary Educational Institution School No. 129 of the Krasnogvardeisky District of St. Petersburg; “Best Employer Company” – JSC Russian Railways; “The best partnership project within the framework of the Unified Model of Career Guidance” – VK; “The best project in the field of career guidance in a social environment” – Academy of Hospitality Mriya Resort and SPA; “The best project in the field of career guidance in a comfortable environment” – ANO “Institute for the Development of Dual Education”; “The best project in the field of career guidance in the agricultural environment” – JSC Sibagro; “The best project in the field of career guidance in an industrial environment” – ANO “Rosatom Corporate Academy”; “The best project in the field of career guidance in a healthy environment” – Joint Stock Company “R-Pharm”; “The best project in the field of career guidance in a creative environment” – Gorky Film Campus – Film Studio named after. M. Gorky.
The pool of educational organizations is represented by the following projects and nominations: “The best project for organizations of the secondary vocational education system” – SAOU DPO “Moscow Center for the Development of Vocational Education”; “School No. 1 in the Unified Model of Career Guidance” – MAOU “Tatanovskaya Secondary School”; “The best project in the field of career guidance in the social environment” – MBOU “YASH No. 10” of the municipal formation of the city district of Yalta, Republic of Crimea; “The best project created by schoolchildren” – MBOU Secondary School No. 36 in Norilsk, Krasnodar Territory; “The best information resource” – OGBPOU “Tomsk Municipal Construction College”; “Best inclusive project” – GBOU “Menzelinskaya school – boarding school for orphans and children left without parental care with disabilities”; “The best project in the field of career guidance in a safe environment – GBPOU MO “Krasnogorsk College”, Krasnogorsk, Moscow region; “For the transfer of family professional values and traditions – MBOU Maryevskaya secondary school, Neklinovsky district, village. Maryevka, Rostov region.
Special awards for achievements in the development of career guidance at the regional level were received by the Education Committee of St. Petersburg in the category “Region – Driver of the Unified Model of Career Guidance” and the Moscow Tourism Committee in the category “Best Project in the Field of Further Education.”
