State-owned expeditionary activities at State University of Management as an organizational innovation in the modern model youth and educational tourism

The expeditionary activity in the State University of Management (hereinafter referred to as SUM) has been considered as an organizational innovation using the example of the SUM Expeditionary Corps through the prism of the modern model of youth and educational tourism and the model of modern youth participation. In this context, the university’s expeditionary activity acts not only as an organizational innovation, but also as a valuepedagogical model demonstrating how modern university is able to combine education, upbringing, and digital communication into a single system of educating a responsible citizen. Methodologically, youth educational tourism is characterized by a value-educational and cognitive orientation, implementing the learning by action principle and combining cognitive, value, and activity components of education. The activity and value-pedagogical models of the Expeditionary Corps realize such interrelated functions as integration, educational, educational, and social, which in turn are integrated into a new type of university education model. These processes open up opportunities for scaling such as creating a network of interuniversity expedition centers as an element of the national model of educational tourism in Russian universities. The analysis of the SUM Expeditionary Corps institutionalization has been carried out, suggesting not only the consolidation of its status, but also the integration of expeditionary activities as organizational innovations into the academic, scientific, and educational system of the university, its development strategy, thereby strengthening the university’s reputation capital and demonstrating its innovative role in implementing state youth policy. This led to the conclusion that including the Expeditionary Corps in the university’s institutional structure creates conditions for forming a sustainable educational ecosystem that meets the modern challenges of higher education development and the objectives of state youth policy, combining science, education, and civic engagement in a single educational space with the aim of developing the individual and Russian society as a whole.

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