Instructions following meeting with Mentor forum participants 2018-02-23 17:30:00 Vladimir Putin approved a list of instructions following a meeting with participants of the Mentor national forum on February 14, 2018. The Russian Government and the Agency for Strategic Initiatives to Promote New Projects were instructed to adopt legislative acts on the implementation of Ticket to the Future, a project of early career guidance for schoolchildren between grades 6 and 11 starting in 2018, with funding up to 1 billion rubles and no less than 100,000 children participating. The operator of the project is WorldSkills Russia. The Government was also instructed to provide funding for the Ticket to the Future project. The Presidential Executive Office was instructed to submit proposals on establishing a national award for mentors.