The Project Related to Promoting Flax Growing Industry in the Smolensk Region Has Been Recognized as the Best in the Central Federal District
Following the results of the educational program aimed at the regional teams’ development, implemented by the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA) and Agency for Strategic Initiatives, the project presented by the regional team from Smolensk and entitled Smolensk Flax – from Field to Market has been recognized as the best in the Central Federal District. 130 participants from 10 regions of the Central Federal District have benefited from the educational program in 2018.
The final event was held in Oryol. Anton Afonychev, Head of Department for Investment Development of the Smolensk Region and the regional team leader representing the Smolensk Region, received a special prize from Andrey Klychkov, Governor of the Oryol Region, for the best project in the Central Federal District as part of the educational program aimed at the regional teams’ development.
The educational program has been developed for the purpose of executing instructions given by President of Russia Vladimir Putin through international and Russian-based practices for leadership development. The program is meant for the chief executives of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, such as governors, vice-governors, ministers, heads of executive agencies and local authorities, as well as managers of natural monopolies. It is worth noting that the educational practice keeps on developing throughout the territory of Russia every year, thus there were 324 participants from 36 entities of the Russian Federation in 2016, and 343 people from 49 entities of Russia in 2017, who joined the program.
The team representing the Smolensk Region included 15 heads of organizational units within the Administration of the Smolensk Region, local authorities, as well as members of special project offices. During 2018 the regional teams prepared their own project aimed to meet the current challenges that the region is taking up. The project was juried by Maxim Baranov, Head of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Central Federal District; Dmitry Butashin, RANEPA Vice-Rector; Yury Saprykin, Vice President for Regional and International Development of the SKOLKOVO Foundation; Alexey Shmelev, Head of the Representative Office of the Agency for Strategic Initiatives in the Central Federal District, as well as representatives of expert communities.
The regional team from Smolensk has developed and presented its project, which summed up the experience and prospects for further development of the flax growing industry in the Smolensk Region. It should be recalled that for the last few years a special focus has been put on developing flax growing industry, which was initiated by Alexey Ostrovsky, Governor of the Smolensk Region; thus, a flax cluster has been created, the crops have increased significantly, the first modern flax processing facility is being built for the last 30 years in Russia, and in July 2018 the region has hosted the first All-Russian Flax Field Day. The final project has been highly praised by experts who noted the extensive use of modern management tools.
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In addition to the central Russian Institute of Management (Branch of RANEPA), the regional teams had trainings throughout the country, in particular, in the Far-East Institute of Management (Khabarovsk), Siberian Institute of Management (Novosibirsk), Ural Institute of Management (Ekaterinburg), Nizhny Novgorod Institute of Management (Nizhny Novgorod), Povolzhsky Institute of Management (Saratov), North-West Institute of Management (St. Petersburg), Krasnogorsk Branch of RANEPA (Krasnogorsk), South-Russian Institute of Management (Rostov-on-Don) and North-Caucasian Institute (Pyatigorsk).