The Pushkin State Russian Language Institute with the support of the Russian Ministry of Education and Science is conducting a new recruitment of volunteers for the International Program “Ambassadors of the Russian Language in the World”.
After special training volunteers go on educational expeditions to foreign countries where they conduct interactive classes in the Russian language, culture and literature with schoolchildren and students. They themselves get acquainted with the culture and traditions of the host country.
Participation in the program is free!
Organizers provide ambassadors of the Russian language with:
- transfers to foreign countries,
- accommodation,
- food,
- teaching materials,
- souvenir products,
- branded clothing for classes.
Students, graduate students and young professionals aged 18–30 with experience in volunteering or teaching, who know and love the Russian language and culture, who want to develop in the field of intercultural communication and international relations, are invited to participate in the competitive selection.
The first stage of selection is absentee. Applications for participation are accepted until 23:59 Moscow time on June 24. The second stage is face-to-face as a part of a major youth forum.
How to participate in the selection:
- record a fragment of your favorite poem on video and post it on your page on a social network with the hashtags #poemmarathon and #poslyrl and pass the baton to six friends,
- fill out the questionnaire at the link (in the questionnaire you must give a link to the recording of the verse marathon).
The international volunteer program “Ambassadors of the Russian Language in the World” initiated by the Pushkin State Russian Language Institute with the support of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation has been implemented since 2015. The project participants are 283 volunteers (the organizing committee of the competition received 5,500 applications).
Educational expeditions of Russian language ambassadors took place in 19 countries where volunteers introduced children and youth to the Russian language and culture. Expedition geography: Abkhazia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Bahrain, Belarus, Bulgaria, Vietnam, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, China, Moldova, Peru, Portugal, Tajikistan, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Croatia, Ecuador.
In Russia program participants conducted educational activities aimed at increasing the motivation of schoolchildren to read, study the culture, history, geography of their native country, in Bashkiria, the Kursk Region, Moscow, Republics of the North Caucasus, at the World Games for Young Compatriots, the festivals “Origins” and “Samovarfest”, children’s centres “Artek”, “Orlyonok”, “Ocean” and “Smena”.
