INRTU Student Alisa Filippova Took Part in the World Youth Festival Assembly 2025

Alisa Filippova, a student of Irkutsk National Research Technical University (INRTU), took part in the World Youth Festival Assembly. The world's largest forum for active young people was held on September 17-21 in Nizhny Novgorod. The event brought together two thousand people fr om 120 countries.

The forum was attended by a future linguist, third-year student of the Baikal School of BRICS, Alisa Filippova. Since January 2025, she has been a young deputy to the Minister of Education of the Irkutsk Region and is part of the "youth government" of the Irkutsk Region. To pass the selection for the assembly, the student provided the experts with her portfolio, a video presentation, and a certificate of English language proficiency.

The forum's program featured seven thematic tracks, ranging fr om sports to creative industries and business. Alisa Filippova participated in the “Education and Science” track. The Irkutsk student was part of a team of 30 people, including 15 foreigners.

Alisa successfully contributed to a case session on promoting the Russian language as a tool for international communication. She reported that the brainstorming session resulted in new teaching formats for foreigners.

“We developed the ‘Holidays in the Village’ project. It involves taking foreigners on trips to the countryside to introduce them to folk crafts. During such trips, international guests will encounter vocabulary that is hard to come by in the city. It is excellent practice for advanced-level Russian and an immersion into our culture.

Experts at the forum noted that it is precisely these non-standard formats of working with foreigners that are currently lacking,”
the student said.

Alisa is ready to help her colleagues at INRTU organize events to strengthen international cooperation.

One of the most spectacular events for the student was the ‘trend battle’. It was a discussion platform wh ere bloggers and journalists debated new media and agenda-setting. She also recalled a talk show wh ere experts from India and Russia discussed the impact of digitalization on schools and universities. In addition, Alisa attended an immersive show about Russia’s development throughout different historical eras.

The INRTU student found a stand-up session with Artyom Garin, a research fellow at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, particularly useful. He is an IT specialist who founded a school for programming language models for humanities scholars. Artyom invited Alisa Filippova to take part in one of his events at the intersection of IT and linguistics.