For PR-specialists, businessmen, politicians, journalists and students the IPC conducts in Moscow and in other regions special cycles of lectures, seminars and workshops on the following themes:

• Public relations;
• Information management;
• Strategic planning;
• Managing of critical situations;
• Image and corporate relations;
• Constructing and presenting news;
• Mediation;
• Creating of a team, effective work in groups;
• Negotiation process, etc

Among the organizations for which IPC conducted cycles of lectures, seminars and workshops were: Administrations of Volgograd and Tjumen regions, The international Financial Corporation, Philip Morris company, Universities and commercial structures of Moscow, Krasnodar, Izhevsk and other cities.

tInternational Press Club conducts on seminar on election campaigns technologies with the executives of the Volgograd City Administration

A.Muccaren, , the Counselor on Development of the International Finance Corporation A.Kratova, the Coordinator of the Training Programs of the International Finance Corporation The Intentional Press Club (Mr. A. Tchumikov) was contracted to design and deliver workshop on Public Relation for the Communication team of IFC. It was an ambitious project, covering areas like analyses of concrete situation, devising strategy for PR campaign, study of the possible optimum mechanism of influence on the situation, etc. Mr. Tchumikov offered a wide range of creative solving methods, planning techniques and decision making procedures, which is in conjunction with a practical orientation gave excellent results. Participants highly appreciated the exercises to transfer knowledge, thought-provoking process to learning and positive working atmosphere. Mr. Tchumikov has considerable experience in working with business, local government and NGO sectors and shares this valuable asset willingly and creatively with workshop participants. IFC is very pleased to be working in partnership with the International Press Club and recommends their training and workshop development services.

V. Zhuravtev,the Rector the Udmurt State University, Professor, профессор From the 6th to 11th of April, 1998 the International Press Club organized a series of lectures "Creative Technologies in PR” in the Udmurt State University for lecturers, postgraduate students and the forth-year students of social communications faculty which arose great scientific interest and public reaction in the city. We recommend to take this course of lectures both from theoretical and practical aspect.