The State Duma called the main task of the My Mentors project the implementation of youth ideas.

From February 28 to March 3, the Mashuk Knowledge Center hosts an educational program for mentors within the framework of the My Mentors project. Ekaterina Kharchenko, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Science and Higher Education, told Izvestia about it on March 1.

She noted that the mentoring project has been implemented for the second year in a row. In 2023, 19 regions of Russia took part in it. At the same time, only women were invited to participate. The project received positive feedback from thousands of students and mentors, and then it was decided to scale it to the whole country with the name "My Mentors".

"More than 10 thousand participants have registered, 7 thousand of them are mentees and 3 thousand are mentors from 85 regions of the Russian Federation. <...Our task is not to select the best guys who came with their social projects or initiatives, but to take everyone who needs a significant adult who will take their hand and lead them to the fulfillment of their dreams," Kharchenko emphasized.

According to her, the main goal of the project is to hear the ideas of young people and help in their implementation. Projects aimed at identifying and solving significant problems in various areas of the region are allowed to participate.

In their projects, participants can propose specific practical and informational measures to achieve the designated goal, describe the results available, have a plan for the implementation of such measures, as well as form and describe an idea of scaling the project, taking into account the specifics of the region.

The My Mentors project is being implemented within the framework of the federal Women's Movement of United Russia party project jointly with the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation for students of universities, colleges and technical schools.

In January, the Russian Ministry of Education proposed to establish Mentor's Day and celebrate it on March 2. It was clarified that the date was timed to coincide with the signing of the decree of the President of the Russian Federation "On the establishment of the Award for Mentoring" on March 2, 2018, as well as the birthday of Konstantin Ushinsky, the founder of scientific pedagogy in the Russian Federation.