Forum's Targets:

• Innovation technique presentation and exchange within and between sectors, unification of sectors' resources for
• solving social problems and non-profit sector consolidation.
• An open dialog between the public and the state on social problems in order to enhance the quality of decisions taken.
• Creating a vision of municipal social policy and of the priorities of the city's social development from the public point of view.

Forum's Participants:

• Non-profit organizations from St. Petersburg
• Authorities: Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, administration, regional administrations, local governments
• State and municipal organs
• Experts
• University teachers and students
• Media
• Business
• Guests from Leningradskaya oblast, North-West region and other regions of the Russian Federation

Forum's Organizers: The Center for the Development of Non-Governmental Organisations with support of the Gagarin foundation and the Committee for Youth Policy and Cooperation with Social Organizations of the St. Petersburg government

In the Forum's Program:

• Inauguration with participation of distinguished representatives of the executive and legislative powers and of international organizations.
• Reports about tendencies in social policy and the development on the non-profit sector in Russia and St. Petersburg 2004
• Innovation social techniques presentations, seminars, master classes organized by NGOs.
• Round tables and discussions on current problems.
• Presentation of the social web-site for NGOs and about NGOs.
• Discussion of priorities of the social policy in St. Petersburg.

See also Forum's Program and How to Participate

For printing:
Forum Description 

Contact: project manager Elina Tchizhevskaya (tel./fax +7-812-118-37-94; forum@soc-spb.ru)