First-year students of the State University of Management were told how to build an individual educational trajectory

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On September 4, a presentation of the system for individualizing the educational trajectory for first-year students was held in the assembly hall of the State University of Management.

Thursday is a project-based learning day for students of all courses at the State University of Management, and in the first week after admission, the students were introduced to this educational technology.

The meeting was opened by Vice-Rector Dmitry Bryukhanov, who told those gathered about the university's achievements in project-based learning and the development of students' entrepreneurial skills, and encouraged the students not to be afraid to try their hand at different areas of activity and to maintain the high standard of the country's first management university:

"Today, a new format of implementation of the educational process begins for you, when each of you can choose an individual development trajectory within the framework of the chosen program. First of all, this is carried out through project-based learning, in which the State University of Management is a recognized leader in our country. It is on the basis of our university that the Interregional Educational and Methodological Center for Project-Based Learning operates, which accumulates new practices and technologies in this area."

Dmitry Bryukhanov also noted that GUU is actively involved in implementing the global task of developing the entrepreneurial community. The university has created the necessary infrastructure and there are many opportunities to improve students' entrepreneurial skills: a business incubator, acceleration programs, implementation of business projects, etc. The success of this approach is also evidenced by the fact that among thousands of participants from all over the country, it was a GUU student who took first place in the All-Russian competition of graduation theses in the format "Startup as a Diploma" in the past academic year.

Next, representatives from various fields spoke about innovations and opportunities for building an individual educational trajectory.

Thus, the employees of the State University of Management Vadim Chicherin, Nikolai Tormanov and Alexander Osinsky spoke about the individualization of the curriculum in the sports sphere, the new system of registration for 16 sections and 21 university teams, ways of obtaining the necessary points, and also reminded that all sports events can be found out on the social networks of the State University of Management Student Sports Club.

The main topic of the meeting was project-based learning at SUM, the structure and support ecosystem of which was introduced to the first-year students in more detail by the director of the SUM project office, Anastasia Lobacheva. The students learned that:

Our university is the first in the country where project-based learning is included in the curriculum and is mandatory for all courses; each department and educational program has responsible employees and consultants; projects can only be implemented in teams; project teams can be not only intra-group, but also inter-program; curators from among the SUM employees, mentors, experts and representatives of customers will help at all stages; Thursday is not a day off, but an opportunity to attend any project day events of your choice; the final qualifying work can be prepared in the form of a project and it is better to start preparing for it from the first year.

Ekaterina Illarionova, Director of the Center for Project Mentoring at the State University of Management, spoke about how a mentor is selected, what should be taken into account when choosing a project, and other important nuances of project-based learning.

Director of the Business Incubator of the State University of Management Dmitry Rogov presented the possibilities for developing entrepreneurial projects and measures to support startups, and also noted the importance of bringing projects to the external environment

Danila Yakovlev, winner of the All-Russian competition of final qualification works in the format "Startup as a Diploma" 2025, shared his experience of successfully implementing the project.

Veronika Balandina, head of the federal program "Service Learning" at the State University of Management, spoke about our university's victory in the All-Russian competition of best practices in implementing the "Service Learning" program and how to join the project.

Vladimir Semov, an activist of the Garnet case club, introduced the possibilities of the GUU case school.

During the meeting, first-year students were able to ask questions to the speakers, learned who to contact in the future, and in the near future will form project teams and choose their individual educational trajectories.

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