MPSF enables innovation and facilitates progress in the area of the humanities, social and political knowledge. This is our contribution to strengthening civil society, promoting democracy and the rule of law in Russia.

 

MPSF is a methodology and resource center for experts and organizations promoting reforms in the following areas:

·         higher education, retraining and advance training of personnel;

·         research and development in social sciences;

·         NGO community;

·         local government and municipal management.

 

 

·         Organizing and managing open grant competitions; managing competitive fellowship programs providing access to advanced foreign experience;

·         Facilitating institution building and institutional strengthening of NGOs;

·         Developing and promoting venture projects, identifying partners and donors for their implementation.

Training Set 1

·         Positioning NGOs on the social project market;

·         Raising institutional sustainability of non-government educational and research centers;

·         Training needs assessment in higher education establishments (for managerial staff and faculty);

·         Result Based Project Management;

·         Efficient and effective management of a non-profit organization.

 

Training Set 2

·         Elected Local Council Members In Local Government. Roles and Skills.;

·         Strategic planning in municipal management;

·         Local communities and local government: ensuring citizens’ participation;

·         Total Quality Maintenance in Local Government Operations

Training programs of Set 2 are also available in training-of-trainers format. MPSF offers modern adult-education methods and techniques which emphasize experiencial learning - ample use of case-studies, critical incidences, simulations, games and other interactive and learning-by-doing methods and provides sets of training manuals and methodical literature to participating partner educational centers, seeking thereby to strengthen networks of training centers and to build capacity for training of local public officials and municipal managers in Russia thus enhancing good governance and competent local leadership.

 

·         Creation of multi-media interactive textbooks and distance education courses on the humanities;

·         Provision of technical assistance in developing distance education systems within a framework оf inter-university cooperation;

·         Creation and promotion of web resources for the education / training and R&D sector (databases, internet- and teleconferences, forums and other).

·         Provision of assistance in integrating fragmented, lop-sided web resources and their further support.

·         Provision of assistance to NGOs in hosting their web resources on MPSF platforms.

 

·         MPSF publishes and disseminates free of charge the following series: “Research Reports”, “Library of Local Government” and “Inter-Regional Research In Social Sciences”.

·         MPSF supports an electronic archive of publications containing full-text versions of its own publications and some other relevant scientific and educational materials on the humanities.

·         MPSF organizes and conducts conferences and workshops, seminars and roundtables to discuss issues of contemporary Russian development and international cooperation.

 

TA packages are to facilitate sustainability and institutional development of NGOs and are focused on such topics as raising the efficiency of management, developing strategies for monitoring project implementation, dissemination of the obtained results, development of network relations and other. The package integrates diagnostics, consulting and training components.

 

In the course of project and program implementation MPSF pays particular attention to the examination and dissemination of international experience and its adjustment to Russia’s environment. MPSF professional resources are created on the basis of broad international expert cooperation.

 

MPSF has a pro-active policy with respect to regional participation. This policy is designed to energize the full potential of talent and expertise available nation-wide to ensure quality in the delivery of programs and maximum impact. Regional participation at all stages of development and delivery of programs is sought consistently also as an important instrument promoting equal opportunity.