The CASE-IN Championship forms a multi-level mentoring model

Mentor's Day was celebrated for the first time in Russia on March 2, 2026. The new date was not a formal addition to the calendar, but the result of several years of systematic work. Mentoring — from schools and universities to enterprises and the management reserve — has been consolidated as a state priority. The President initiated the return of this tradition, considering it as a tool to strengthen the continuity of generations, human resource sustainability and sovereign development of the country.

In recent years, mentoring support has ceased to be a separate initiative and has become a sustainable state policy. The Year of the Teacher and Mentor, the Concept of mentoring development in Russia until 2030, additional payments to mentors at enterprises, the contests "To be, not to seem" and "Mentor of the Year" — all this is lined up in one line. We are not talking about a one-time campaign, but about the consistent formation of the system.

This policy has already received a significant public response. The number of applications for the All-Russian mentor competition "To be, not to seem" in 2025 exceeded 70 thousand. Over the five seasons of the Your Turn project, more than 2.5 million students from 79 regions of Russia and CIS countries have been mentored.

Mentoring programs have become a key element of the flagship projects of the presidential platform "Russia — the Land of Opportunities". In the Leaders of Russia competition, experienced managers share their experience with younger colleagues, and in the framework of the Leadership Academy project: Mentors" dozens of mentors train youth teams in project activities.

Systematic work is built in an educational, media and professional environment.The projects of the Mashuk Knowledge Center, "Flagships of Education", "TopBLOG", "Professional Development", the Senezh Management Workshop, the All-Russian Pro-Mentoring forum, the Olympiad and the CASE-IN engineering championship programs form a multi-level mentoring model. It covers schoolchildren, students, young professionals and current managers. Hundreds of mentors and thousands of participants are involved in these programs every year, and mentoring is gradually being consolidated as a sustainable mechanism for developing the country's human resources potential.

According to sociological research, about 44 percent of Russians need mentoring, and 77 percent of the country's residents say that they have or have had a person in their life whom they can call a mentor. Thus, the initiative to revive mentoring traditions responds to public demand and reinforces it at the institutional level.

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