Valdai Club

Valdai Club at the World Youth Festival

Sirius Federal Territory, the Park of Science and Art.

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On March 3–5, the Valdai Discussion Club will hold its first Youth Conference, titled “The Valdai Club: The World in 2040,” as part of the World Youth Festival. The conference will be held in the Sirius Federal Territory, at the Park of Science and Art.

The Youth Conference will be attended by Russian and foreign experts, as well as young specialists, graduate students and graduates of leading universities in the field of international relations from Brazil, China, Egypt, Ghana, India, Indonesia, and South Africa.

For the first time, the Valdai Club focuses on the participation and expertise of young international relations researchers aged below 35. These are specialists of the new generation who will represent policy-making circles and the expert community of their countries in the coming decades.

Working languages: English, Russian.

Information for the media: Dear journalists, access to the event is possible for World Youth Festival participants and journalists accredited at the Forum.

The third day of the Valdai Club Youth Conference will be open for the media — March 5.

Sessions 1–3 will be held in the Dostoevsky conference hall, Sirius Science and Art Park (11:30 — 17:00).

Open discussion — in the Atom hall, Terminal F, Sirius Science and Art Park (17:30 — 19:30).

Materials

Global Alternatives 2024

Order From Chaos: Is It Possible to Overcome Global Disorder by 2040?

Will order emerge from the chaos of the modern world? Will this order be harmonious and equal? Or is this another utopia? All these questions undoubtedly concern humanity. The merit of the Valdai Club report’s young authors of is that they were not afraid to directly raise these questions, writes Valdai Club Programme Director Oleg Barabanov.

Forward to the Future: Between Fear and Hope

The Valdai Club youth conference on March 5 consisted of three thematic sessions and an open discussion. As during the closed-door workshops held on March 3–4, which you can read about here, the participants in the open session were guided by the image of the future presented in the new Valdai Club report “Charting the 2040: Younger Generation Insight on the World in the Making.”

The Return of Diplomacy?

The World in 2040: A Chinese Perspective

The future is always full of uncertainty, and only a handful of great people can accurately predict the future. As an academic, I have many worries about the future, wars, famines, climate disasters, viruses, economic decline, etc. However, I still hope that the world will be better in 2040. In 2040, the global economy will be even larger, capable of addressing the problem of world poverty, which now directly affects 1 billion people, writes Wang Wen, the Professor and Executive Dean of the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin University of China. This article was prepared for the Valdai Club Youth Conference.

The Return of Diplomacy?

Science, Technology and Innovation for a Better World for Everyone

Scientific progress through the global knowledge commons has afforded us the evolutionary capacity to create technological solutions to endure the challenges presented by our ecology and to secure our very survival. But we need to recognise the combined yet uneven distribution of productive capabilities which excludes the global majority from sharing in the benefits of our collective ingenuity, writes Rasigan Maharajh, Chief Director of the Institute for Economic Research on Innovation at the Tshwane University of Technology (South Africa). This article is based on his presentation at the Valdai Club’s Youth Conference as part of the World Youth Festival

Rasigan Maharajh

Valdai - New Generation: Seeing the Future Is Difficult, but Let Us Try

What will the world look like in 2040? What new values does the younger generation offer? What is technological progress – a danger or an opportunity? Will people become “hamsters” and “cockroaches” for artificial intelligence? This was discussed by the participants of the Valdai Club workshops, held as part of the first Youth Conference of the Club on March 3–4 at the site of the World Youth Festival.

Global Alternatives 2024

Values 2040 in World Politics: From Global Disorder to Mosaic Unity

Time is the best healer when it comes to the wounds of history. Generations change and new eras arrive; the pain and suffering of victims of old conflicts is not forgotten, far from it, but it becomes less acute and is not transferred to children who didn’t bear witness to it. Oleg Barabanov, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club, wonders if it will be possible to overcome the era of global disorder by 2040. This article was prepared especially for the Valdai Club Youth Conference.

The Return of Diplomacy?

Valdai Club Youth Conference: Platform for a New Generation of Experts

Youth communities play an extremely important role in the process of forming a sober understanding of the world. At the Valdai Club conference in Sochi, young experts will gain useful experience engaging in personal communication with international experts, young ambitious people who see their task as influencing the development of the world.

Andrey Sushentsov

Programme of the Valdai Club's Youth Conference “The Valdai Club: The World in 2040” as part of the World Youth Festival

On March 3–5, the Valdai Discussion Club will hold its first Youth Conference, titled “The Valdai Club: The World in 2040,” as part of the World Youth Festival. The conference will be held in the Sirius Federal Territory, at the Park of Science and Art. The Youth Conference will be attended by Russian and foreign experts, as well as young specialists, graduate students and graduates of leading universities in the field of international relations from Brazil, China, Egypt, Ghana, India, Indonesia, and South Africa.

The Return of Diplomacy?

Charting the 2040: Younger Generation Insight on the World in the Making

The multipolar landscape of 2040 will resemble a sandbox, offering people the state as just one among various available choices, albeit one that remains the most common.

Valdai Discussion Club Youth Conference at the World Youth Festival

On March 3–5, the Valdai Discussion Club will hold its first Youth Conference, titled “The Valdai Club: The World in 2040,” as part of the World Youth Festival. The conference will be held in the Sirius Federal Territory, at the Park of Science and Art.

Photo

Photo Gallery: Valdai-2040: Looking Into the Future. Open Discussion at the Valdai Club's First Youth Conference

Photo Gallery: Technological Development as a Challenge and an Opportunity. Third Session of the Valdai Club's First Youth Conference

Photo Gallery: Dialogue of Cultures in a Polycentric World. Future of Energy and Food Markets. Second Session of the Valdai Club's First Youth Conference

Photo Gallery: Opening of the Valdai Club's First Youth Conference and First Session ‘The Future of World Politics in 2040’

Photo Gallery: Workshop “Technological Progress as a Challenge and an Opportunity for Civilisation”

Video

Valdai-2040: Looking Into the Future. Open Discussion at the Valdai Club's First Youth Conference

05.03.2024

Technological Development as a Challenge and an Opportunity. Third Session of the Valdai Club's First Youth Conference

05.03.2024

Dialogue of Cultures in a Polycentric World. Future of Energy and Food Markets. Second Session of the Valdai Club's First Youth Conference

05.03.2024

Opening of the Valdai Club's First Youth Conference and First Session ‘The Future of World Politics in 2040’

05.03.2024

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