Technologies of organizing volunteer activities in higher education institutions

Volunteering is a form of social activity that can fully ensure the ascent to its highest form – serving the community. However,despite the large pedagogical potential of volunteering, this activity has not been suf ciently studied as a socio-pedagogicalphenomenon, the scientif c community has not justif ed approaches to its modeling, organization and management, and thepositive experience of creating a volunteer movement at a university has not been generalized. In recent years, mass volunteerinitiatives in our country have been caused by various phenomena and events taking place in society, both positive and negative.There is a special interest in volunteering among students, the number of participants in volunteer movements in universities isincreasing every year. The specif city of the activities of volunteer centers in universities of St. Petersburg is analyzed, identif edthe main directions of their activities are identif ed. The “SVOI” volunteering development program proposed by the Associationof Volunteer Centers (Moscow) was studied, within which more than 150 volunteer centers are planned to open in educationalinstitutions throughout Russia by the end of 2019. A model for organizing volunteer activities with elements of socio-culturaltechnologies in universities has been developed. The relevance, purpose and objectives of the model, which contributes to thegrowth of social activity of the student and teaching contingent, are substantiated.