Zhilyakova Ekaterina V.

The article gives a summary of the discussion ‘Dialogue of Civil Dialogues' held within the framework of the Gaidar Forum 2020 at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. The topic of the event was issues of interstate dialogue forums of civil societies and international interuniversity cooperation with the participation of the RANEPA, problems and prospects of interaction between civil societies of European countries. The work of four forums-dialogues of civil societies between Russia and Austria, Germany, Italy, and France is briefly described. Heads of diplomatic missions and representatives of embassies and universities of Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Russia, and France spoke in the discussion organized by the IPACS of the RANEPA. In the first part, representatives of the embassies of the participating countries and heads of permanent forums-dialogues summed up the results of 2019 and discussed the urgent tasks of the forums. In the second part, representatives of European universities - partners of the RANEPA for international educational programs spoke. Guests of the Forum were presented with the book ‘Russia - Austria: Milestones in Joint History' - a collection of articles written based on the results of a joint scientific and educational project of the Russian-Austrian Commission of Historians, the Institute of General History of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for the Study of the Consequences of Wars. Also on the sidelines of the Gaidar Forum, a meeting of representatives of the Russian-French University, created in 2016, was held.