The ICMED'2025 International Conference extends an invitation to scientists, representatives of public authorities, employees of educational and scientific institutions, learners involved in solving problems of modern education development who are interested in creating scientific methods for formation the education of the future.

Formation of education of the future is a fundamental task of our time – welfare of nations, peoples and individuals depends on its effective solution. The responsibility for solving this task lies with those who are able to make a scientific and organizational contribution to the education advancement. The ICMED’2025 Conference will open the way to combine efforts of professionals from different fields of knowledge in shaping images of education of the future, in finding right pathways leading to them.

The Conference is an official event of the Decade of Science and Technology in the Russian Federation. The co-chairs of the Conference are Professor D.B. Bogoyavlenskaya – Doctor of Psychology, the matriarch of Russian psychology; A.O. Karpov – Doctor of Philosophy, the founder and head of the “Step into the Future” Programme. Leading experts in the field of sciences of education, philosophy, psychology, sociology, and cultural studies are members of the Program Committee of the Conference. Media partners of the Conference are the journals “Voprosy Philosofii” (“Problems of Philosophy”), “Higher Education in Russia”, “Sociological Studies”, “Educational Studies”, “Russian Journal of Philosophical Sciences”, “Social Sciences and Contemporary World”, “The Education and Science Journal” and “POISK” Newspaper.

The Conference will be held during the Russian Forum for Scientific Youth “Step into the Future”, which will be attended by more than 1,000 talented school researchers and undergraduates. Speakers and listeners at the Conference will be able to attend the main events of the Forum, including projects defenses at the exhibition of the best works and at specialized workshops.

The purpose of the Conference is the interdisciplinary development of key problems, directions and methods of the modern education development in the movement towards education of the future, as well as fundamental constituents of education of the future as a whole and at different levels of education; definition of goal-setting, the role and place of education in the anthropological, social, cultural, and economic coordinate system of society of the future.

Types of participation in the Conference: as a scientific speaker or as a listener. The conference program includes plenary sessions, scientific workshops and a discussion platform for young scientists and mentors, postgraduates, students, and school researchers aged between 17-35 years old. Working languages at the Conference are Russian and English (translation is provided). There is no registration fee. Key topics of the Conference – see Attachment.

We advise the authors of reports to adhere to main directions of the Conference as to scientific methodology in formulation, analysis and development of educational problems. The articles of all speakers at the Conference will be published in the Conference Proceedings with ISBN number and submitted for indexing to the Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI). We are looking to publish a collection of conference works of scientific youth with articles presented by participants at the discussion platform on key topics of the Conference (works are receivable for selection upon the Conference closure). Certain articles will be published in scientific journals – media partners of the Conference). International certificates with the logo of the Decade of Science and Technology will be handed over to all participants of the Conference (speakers, listeners, participants in open discussions).

For participation in the Conference, you should submit the Application Form (https://sitf.online/icmed_reg).The conference participants who are willing to make a report, should upload their photo and the article drawn up and designed in accordance with rules (if there are two or many authors, the application with the article and photos should be uploaded once with indication of all authors), as well as abstracts of reports. The deadline for electronic registration and acceptance of the articles is January 19, 2025.

The reports will be reviewed and selected by the Program Committee. The list of speakers and invited listeners will be approved by February 25, 2025 and published on the website: sitf.online/icmed. Invitations to the Conference will be sent shortly afterwards to e-mail addresses indicated in the applications.

Information about arrangement of participation, preparation of the article and the report is provided in the Information Attachment, as well as posted on the main website of the “Step into the Future” program: http://sitf.online/icmed.

Phone numbers of the Organizing Committee: +7 (499) 267-55-52, +7 (499) 263-62-82. E-mail: sitfp@bk.ru.