Russia-IAEA Nuclear Stakeholder Engagement School

Objectives

The school offers a comprehensive curriculum comprising lectures, interactive group discussions, practical exercises and, when possible, technical visits. Through a combination of theoretical and practical learning, participants will develop the skills and knowledge necessary to effectively engage with diverse stakeholders, as well as gain an understanding of why it is important to embed stakeholder engagement in organizational management processes and organization’s core values.

The objectives of the school include:

• Promote the understanding of the need for continuous engagement of various stakeholder groups across the nuclear fuel cycle and throughout the lifecycle of nuclear facilities.
• Raise awareness of the need to embed stakeholder engagement as an integral element of organizational management processes and organization’s core values.
• Look into the specifics and dynamics of effective stakeholder engagement, including cross cutting nature and impact of stakeholder engagement activities and the appropriate application of a variety of participatory tools for different objectives of stakeholder engagement.
• Identify the key skills and internal capacities required within organizations to effectively implement and sustain stakeholder engagement programme over long timeframes.

Target Audience

The target audience for the school are executives, managers and professionals working in governmental bodies, regulatory bodies, technical support organizations, operating organizations and other organizations from across the nuclear industry, who are directly or indirectly involved with their entity’s stakeholder engagement programmes.

Topics

Some of the topics covered by the school curriculum include:

• psychology of human decision making and stakeholder engagement;
• tools, methods and approaches to effective stakeholder engagement;
• stakeholder engagement strategy and plan;
• roles and responsibilities in stakeholder engagement;
• leadership and influencing skills
• crisis and emergency communication;
• public information and communication;
• disinformation, misinformation, rumours and fake news mitigation;
• ensuring sustained stakeholder engagement.

Participation and Registration

All persons wishing to participate in the event have to be designated by an IAEA Member State or should be members of organizations that have been invited to attend.

In order to be designated by an IAEA Member State or invited organization, participants are requested to submit their application via the InTouch+ platform to the competent national authority (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Permanent Mission to the IAEA or National Atomic Energy Authority) or organization for onward transmission to the IAEA by 16 June 2025.

The application for financial support should be made, together with the submission of the application, by 16 June 2025.

For more details see Information Sheet.

Expenditures and Grants

The IAEA is generally not in a position to bear the travel and other costs of participants in the event. The IAEA has, however, limited funds at its disposal to help meet the cost of attendance of certain participants. Upon specific request, such assistance may be offered to normally one participant per country, provided that, in the IAEA’s view, the participant will make an important contribution to the event.