VEB.RF Introduced City Managers to International Urban Development Experience
The first module of the Master of Public Administration programme has been completed. It was attended by 145 people from 29 cities of Russia. The programme was created on the initiative of VEB.RF, together with experts from the SKOLKOVO Moscow School of Management in partnership with the Strelka Institute of Media, Architecture and Design, National Research University Higher School of Economics and the New Economic School.
The first module of the programme was devoted to the study of global urban development trends, as well as their economic role, approaches to planning and organising projects that qualitatively change the lives of city dwellers.
As part of the module, VEB.RF’s key managers and their partners presented their tools and opportunities for urban development. They also shared their experiences in managing and supporting large-scale projects.
“100 cities, managers from which participate in the programme, including Moscow and Saint Petersburg, account for a half of the Russian population and GDP. Nevertheless, non-capital cities have a huge potential for economic growth too. One of the necessary conditions for this is qualified management teams. It is for them that we, together with our partners, have organised an educational programme, which is designed to give an impetus to improving the quality of life in our cities,” VEB.RF’s Chairman Igor Shuvalov noted.
Several dozen economics and urban development experts gave lectures, including Alexander Mamut, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Strelka Institute of Media, Architecture and Design; Ruben Enikolopov, President of the New Economic School; Andrei Sharonov, President of the SKOLKOVO Moscow School of Management; Philipp Rode, Executive Director of LSE Cities (London); Alexei Muratov, Partner of Strelka KB; Greg Clark, Senior Adviser for Future Cities and New Industries at HSBC Bank; and Irina Ilyina, Director of the HSE Centre for Regional Studies.
In the practical part of the module, participants were asked to analyse existing strategies for the development of their cities and conduct an audit of current and planned projects.
Andrei Sharonov, President of the SKOLKOVO Moscow School of Management: “When we conducted an anonymous survey of management teams and asked what qualities would they like to develop and learn, the vast majority in three different groups answered identically: confidence and competence. This is the task for us and our educational partners in all the following modules: to create a programme that would increase the level of competence of managers and, as a result, their self-confidence. And the result of these changes should be real urban transformation projects.”
“A great advantage is that we have the opportunity to talk to our financial partner, VEB.RF, as part of this programme. Moreover, we immediately consider our projects with financing opportunities in mind. We are full of optimism. We have many very healthy ambitions, many interesting ideas. I believe that this is an opportunity for each team, for each city, to find a direction that can change the energy of the city. And the energy of the city is those right initiatives that will be implemented through the involvement of our citizens, our residents, therefore this is the key,” he said.
The first intake of the programme included participants from Armavir, Bratsk, Veliky Novgorod, Vladivostok, Vologda, Voronezh, Dzerzhinsk, Ivanovo, Kazan, Kemerovo, Korolev, Kostroma, Krasnogorsk, Krasnodar, Lipetsk, Makhachkala, Nizhnevartovsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Novorossiysk, Orenburg, Orsk, Perm, Sochi, Sterlitamak, Surgut, Tula, Ulan-Ude, Ussuriysk, Ufa, Khimki, Chelyabinsk, and Yakutsk.
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