Open lectures of the School of Atomic Communications will be held at the RUSSIA EXPO in the ATOM Pavilion

On April 20 and 21, as part of the International RUSSIA EXPO, the conference hall of the ATOM Pavilion will host open lectures by media and public relations specialists and the "Atomic Public-Talk". The events are part of the MediaSkills School of Atomic Communications project.

MediaSkills School of Atomic Communications is organized by the Electric Power Division of Rosatom State Corporation (Rosenergoatom Concern) with the support of the Nuclear Energy Information Centers network and the Business and Period Media Group of business publications as part of the RUSSIA EXPO.

On Saturday, April 20, from 13:30 to 14:30, everyone can listen to a lecture by Andrei Timonov, Head of the Communications Department of Rosatom State Corporation. He will tell about the work of the communications system in the State Corporation and current trends in this area in high-tech industries.

From 14:45 to 16:00, there will be a lecture by Aram Gabrelyanov, editorial director of News Media. The topic of his speech is: "How to see the essence and meanings in a diverse information agenda in the conditions of modern realities and post-truth". The event will be moderated by Yulia Gileva, editor-in-chief of the Rosatom Country newspaper.

At 16:30, the program's moderator and scientific director, associate professor at the Higher School of Economics, creative director of the Modern Journalism master's program, Mikhail Zelentsov, will begin his lecture. The topic of the lecture is: "What skills are important for a media specialist in the era of global digital".

On Sunday, April 21, the conference hall will host an "Atomic Public-Talk" moderated by Artem Shuvarin, a nuclear blogger and leading engineer of the press service of FSUE PA Mayak (Rosatom). Gennady Frolov, senior researcher at the Burnazyan FMBC, and Konstantin Ruder, deputy director of the Communications Department of Rosatom State Corporation, captain of the Rosatom team in the game "What? Where? When?" will also be invited to the discussion. The event will start at 10:30. 

The MediaSkills School of Atomic Communications project will be held from April 19 to 21, 2024. It will be attended by 70 media students and journalists from 8 universities - Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Voronezh and Rostov-on-Don.

The aim of the project is to provide the nuclear industry with professional communicators and new ideas for solving communication problems. After training, the students will return to their home regions, where internships in the editorial offices of media partners and excursions to nuclear power plants await them.