OREANDA-NEWS. August 14, 2007. The seminar was organized by the young activists of the Trade Union of Y.Y.Sedakov Research Institute of Measurement Systems with the support of the Central Committee of the Trade Union of the Nuclear Power Industry of Russia (CC TUNPIR) and the Rosatom companies in Nizhniy Novgorod region.

Representatives of the CC TUNPIR, I.I.Afrikantov OKBM (Nizhniy Novgorod), Start PA (Zarechny), All-Russian Institute of Experimental Physics (Sarov), Chepetsk Mechanical Plant (Glazov), Smolensk NPP (Desnogorsk), State Educational Center (St.Petersburg) took part in the seminar.

The objective of the seminar was to train personnel and activists for the trade unions of Rosatom companies and to work out recommendations for the youth program of the CC TUNPIR for 2008–2015.

Before the seminar, the member of the CC TUNPIR Mikhail Pigarev pointed out the important role of youth organizations in recruiting young personnel into the sector and enhancing the prestige of nuclear power engineering and wished them success in their work.

During the seminar, the activists of the Center learned to make a collective agreement, to conduct reporting and election conferences, to use PR technologies in making the image of trade unions.

The trainees asked their instructors how to help young specialists to quickly adapt themselves to new working conditions and to solve their social and material problems.

On the last day NIIIS hosted a roundtable “The Concept of the Youth Policy of Rosatom in 2008–2015: Drafting the Elements of the Youth Program of Rosatom for 2008–2015.” The general opinion was that the concept and the program should be drafted in close cooperation with the management of Rosatom with due regard for the reforms that are being carried out in the sphere.

While summing up the results of the roundtable, the chairman of the Center Denis Sedakov said that in Sept the youth groups of the trade unions of Rosatom companies will meet at the State Education Center (St.Petersburg) to discuss Rosatom’s youth concept and program for 2008–2015.