Akintobi Tosin Emmanuel, a master’s student in Science and Materials of Solar Energy at NUST MISIS, has won the international competition for young opinion leaders and media-active youth, YouRussia. The contest is organized by the State Corporation “Rosatom” and the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI among international students studying at the foundation universities of the corporation.
This year, participants from 11 countries across the CIS, Asia, Africa, and Latin America took part in the competition. They were tasked with creating videos on relevant topics of interest to them. The works were evaluated by winners of the Russian “TOP-blog” competition, authors of youth blogs, and media experts.
Akintobi Tosin won in the category “Discover Russia.” Other categories included “A Day of a Nuclear Student’ Life”, “Best Blogger”, and the Audience Choice Award. Akintobi Tosin also won a special nomination from the NTV channel. He and other finalists will present their works at the major international festival “Unknown Russia”, and in 2025 they will attend the youth forum “Forsazh”.
“I would like to thank my university, NUST MISIS, for the opportunity to represent it, as well as the organizers of YouRussia for the wonderful privilege to share my story about what I have achieved in this beautiful country so far,” noted Akintobi.
The YouRussia competition aims to introduce foreign students to the culture and traditions of the peoples of the Russian Federation and to create a multilingual space. The final of the international YouRussia competition took place on December 6 in Obninsk (Kaluga region) as part of the festival “All Flags Will Come to Us”.
The “Consortium of Foundation Universities of the State Corporation “Rosatom” is a community of higher educational institutions created to coordinate activities in the interests of the nuclear industry in higher, postgraduate, and additional professional education, as well as in the scientific field. The Consortium includes 20 specialized universities.
The community forum for young specialists “Forsazh” has been held in the Kaluga region since 2011. The event is organized by the MAKO Association of Citizens and Organizations for the Promotion of Corporate Education with support from the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation, the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation, and the Russian Society “Knowledge”. The goal is to familiarize participants with the best practices of the Russian engineering school, teach teamwork practices and technologies, and work with communication and digital knowledge management tools.
