On September 19, the project office of the World Youth Festival Directorate in Morocco signed memoranda of understanding and cooperation with the International Friendship Club of the World Youth Festival in the Tyumen Region and the Kaliningrad Region State Autonomous Institution "Youth Center" The agreements are aimed at establishing long-term partnerships and mutually beneficial cooperation in the field of international youth cooperation. The focus is on bringing together active young people, exchanging experiences, implementing joint projects and events, developing friendly ties between Russia and Morocco, and promoting and developing the idea of a multipolar world.
The memoranda provide for information, cultural, and educational exchanges, the involvement of opinion leaders, and the creation of joint information and communication platforms for the exchange of experience and the attraction of new participants. Joint events, participation in international forums, trainings, master classes, language webinars, and volunteer projects are also expected.
The representative from Morocco - Nabil Belkass, the Head of the WYFD project office, and the representatives from Russia - Daria Kononenko, Deputy leader of the International Friendship Club of the region, and Gunel Bakhyshova, the leader of the WYFD International Friendship Club of the Tyumen Region.
"We are going to make arrangements for joint events. For example, the participation of Moroccan delegates in language clubs and themed intellectual quizzes. Perhaps in the future we will be able to organize joint trips. The Moroccan delegation will be able to visit the Kaliningrad region, and we will be able to visit Morocco. We will strive for even greater cooperation," Daria Kononenko, deputy leader of the WYFD International Friendship Club of the Far Eastern Federal University in the Kaliningrad region, comments.
At the signing ceremony, Gunel Bakhyshova, the leader of the WYFD International Friendship Club of the Tyumen Region, noted that this moment was preceded by painstaking joint work and communication with Nabil Belkass: "We discussed the details of cooperation, the upcoming visit, and the opportunities that are now opening up for our youth. It is important to develop social design. We are also considering the development of communication in the field of education in the future."
The general partners of the WYF Assembly-2025 are the Russian Music Union, JSC Russian Railways, and Phygital Games. The general information partner is the international television channel RT, and the general media partner is ANO Dialog Regions. The partner for the excursion and regional programs is the More Than Trip program. The strategic partner is VK Tech. Co. The following have also joined the partnership program: “New Generation” program arranged by the Federal Agency for Affairs of the Commonwealth of Independent States, Compatriots Residing Abroad and International Humanitarian Cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo), the Movement of the First, the presidential platform “Russia – Country of Opportunities”, Sovcombank, the Avito Tech. Co., State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom, Russian “Znanie” (Knowledge) Society, the Film Studio Soyuzmultfilm, the Government of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the Central Bank of Russia, program for young entrepreneurs “Rosmolodezh.Undertake” and the Mashuk Knowledge Center. Information support for the event is provided by Rossiyskaya Gazeta, Argumenty i Fakty publishing house, the African Initiative and the Window to Russia project of ANO “TV-Novosti”.
The organizer of the World Youth Festival Assembly is the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs (Rosmolodezh), the co-organizer of the event is the Government of the Nizhny Novgorod Region and the event operator is the World Youth Festival Directorate. The Festival pursues the goals of the Youth and Children national project.
Overview:
In accordance with the instructions of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin on preserving and developing the legacy of the World Youth Festival, which took place on the Sirius Federal Territory in 2024 and united 20,000 young people from 190 countries of the world, festival events on the territory of the Russian Federation will be held annually. The next World Youth Festival for 20,000 participants will be held in 2030. In 2026, there will be a smaller event, an International Youth Festival with 10,000 participants. In between, the World Youth Festival’s themed Assemblies will be held annually for 2,000 participants. The World Youth Festival Directorate continues its work aimed at strengthening international youth cooperation.
