Media accreditation for the World Youth Festival Assembly is now open, running from July 30 to August 20, 2025.
Journalists, bloggers, and media professionals both Russian and international are invited to apply.
The Assembly, taking place from September 17 to 21 in Nizhny Novgorod, will host 2,000 young leaders aged 14 to 35 from around the world; 1,000 from Russia and 1,000 from foreign countries.
The event will bring together changemakers from sectors such as media, education, science, entrepreneurship, sports, creative industries, IT, and public administration.
An International Press Center will be set up at the site of the World Youth Festival Assembly. Workplaces and press areas will be organized for journalists. Special studios for recording and broadcasting will be equipped for partners of the World Youth Festival Assembly.
Journalists and bloggers will be able to visit all sites of the international youth event, as well as communicate with speakers, participants and volunteers.
Deputy Director General for External Communications of the World Youth Festival Directorate Vakhtang Khiklandze emphasized that long before the start of accreditation, the World Youth Festival Directorate received feedback emphasizing the interest of the media in covering the events of the Assembly.
He also called on the media and bloggers to submit their applications as soon as possible.
“It is fundamentally important for us to create comfortable conditions for journalists to work – representatives of foreign and Russian media will have exclusive access to key events, will be able to interview top speakers and communicate with participants from all over the world. Media volunteers will help journalists at the press center. We invite Russian and foreign journalists, bloggers to join in covering the key international youth event of 2025,” said Vakhtang Khiklandze, Deputy Director General for External Communications of the World Youth Festival Directorate.
The event will be held in the format of an interactive modular platform and as part of the business program, participants will enjoy immersive shows, trend battles on current youth topics, workshops, case studies and master classes from leading experts.
The Assembly site will feature a press aquarium, label castings and project pitchings. Young people will be able to test themselves in extreme sports and become the authors of the largest painting in the world.
The application campaign for the Assembly has already come to an end with more than 60 thousand young people from 175 countries of the world expressing their desire to participate.
Priority right to participate in the Assembly will be granted to candidates with a rich portfolio with confirmed achievements, demonstrating expertise in their field and having projects ready for implementation or already being implemented, motivated for international cooperation and exchange of experience with other participants.
