BIOGRAPHY

Olga Rubtsova — Academy of Innovative Education and Development

Olga Rubtsova graduated from St. Petersburg State University with a master’s degree in arts and the humanities. She also graduated from Chelyabinsk State University, specializing in linguistics, translation, teaching translation and translation studies (French and German languages), and Chelyabinsk State Pedagogical University, with an emphasis in developing education guidelines and teaching ethics and family psychology. Olga holds a Ph.D. in Education. In 2012, she defended her thesis, Fostering Tolerance among Teenagers Using Media Text of Social Advertising.

From 1998 to 2011, Olga worked in the education system as the deputy director for pedagogical work, an education developer at a city education center, and the head of the Department of Education Systems at the Directorate for Education of the Administration of the Leninsky District, Chelyabinsk.

Since 2012, she has been the head of the Academy of Innovative Education and Development.

The main project she has been implementing since 2014 is the Safe Information Space for Children (winner of the 2020 Runet Prize). As part of the project, over 350 experts in information production have been trained and the Russian Expert Council has been established and is actively working.

Olga oversees the activity of 93 innovative platforms in 39 Russian regions devoted to the Safe Information Space for Children project. Since 2016, she has organized Information Security and Children research and practice conferences every year.

Since 2019, she has been the editor-in-chief of the Vneshkolnik information and instructional journal, the oldest teaching publication, as part of which she selects the best teaching practices and experience of family upbringing.

Olga is a member of the Civic Council under the Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights and is a federally accredited expert at the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor). She is also a member of the Council for Youth Upbringing at the Russian Academy of Education, an associate member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences in the Geopolitics and Security section, a member of the Union of Women of Russia, and a member of the Ostapets-Sveshnikov International Academy of Children’s and Youth Tourism and Local Lore Studies.

Olga has published over 40 papers on educating children and the information literacy of participants in the educational process.

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