On October 13, 2013 in Stavropol the first regional awards ceremony of winners of the award "Civil Initiative" took place. Among winners there was a student of the Registration and financial faculty, the head of volunteer group "Tolk" Ekaterina Voytysheva.
She presented on an award the project "Streets Are Called by Their Names", which task to interest youth in history studying, to tell to residents about the heroes, famous persons of Stavropol Krai, about their life, feats, about memorable places in the region. During implementation of this project students will make a number of short videos about heroes by whom the city streets are called , subsequently all works will be united in the uniform video encyclopedia posted online. Then links for viewing will be transferred to QR−коды and placed on the respective streets. And any passerby by means of the mobile phone will be able to consider a code and to follow the link to the information video.
Social projects and initiatives of citizens from all the corners of Russia take part in competition for the National award "Civil Initiative". More than 50 initiatives arrived from Stavropol. Among them the authors of eight initiatives are students and teachers of the Stavropol State Agrarian University. As a result there were three initiatives: student of Economics faculty Anna Omelchenko "Training of elderly people to computer literacy", the student of Agronomy faculty Dmitryi Galda "From heart to heart" and the project of the student of the Registration and financial faculty Ekaterina Voytysheva "The streets are called by their names " got in the final.
The project manager told about problems of competition — the director, the honored worker of arts of Russia, the member of the Committee of civil initiatives Julius Gusman: "Problems of an award include search of new faces of modern civil society in Russia, unknown heroes of our time who have already appeared in city, region, area, republic. They are those people who do not like the present situation. They, on their own initiative, try to change something and already achieved concrete results or only start realizing that they conceived into practice. And they are worthy of knowing them in Russia. It will give the chance to believe in the forces not only to them, but also million others who only think about the destiny of civil society in Russia. The stereotype that in this country the initiative is punishable, has to be and can be broken".
Winners were defined by the decision of regional expert board which includes the Deputy of the State Duma of Federal Assembly of IV, the President of Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Stavropol Krai Andrey Yuryevich Murga, the Rector of the North Caucasian Federal University Alina Afakoyevna Levitskaya, the Commissioner for Human Rights in Stavropol Krai Alexey Ivanovich Selyukov, the Deputy of the Duma in Stavropol Krai of the V-th convocation, the Chairman of committee of the Duma in Stavropol Krai on culture, youth policy, physical culture and mass media Elena Veniaminovna Bondarenko, the Deputy of the Duma in Stavropol Krai of the V-th convocation, the vice-chairman of Committee of the Duma in Stavropol Krai on economic development, trade, investments and property Sergey Alekseevich Gorlo, the head of Department of relationship of Church and society in the Pyatigorsk and Circassian diocese priest Alexander Nartov.
Federal Ceremony of handing the National award will take place in Moscow in December of this year. All projects which have become nominees and winners of regional awards will take part in it.
