The event was held from November 16 to November 18 at the Pyatigorsk branch of the Russian State Social University. 

Gornoe Echo is a forum for the development of student tourism for students of educational institutions of higher education. The main purpose of the event is to create projects of an environmentally friendly student hub (campus) and receive feedback from the target audience on improving the conditions of student tourism in the region, as well as involving young people in designing interesting and unique tourist products.

More than 150 people from Moscow, Irkutsk, Nalchik, Cherkessk, Krasnodar, Anapa, Sochi, Pyatigorsk, Essentuki, Stavropol, Nevinnomyssk and other cities of Russia took part in the forum. The participants included students of the FSUE IN StGAU, RSSU branch in Anapa, RSSU branch in Sochi, NGTI, SSPI (branch in Essentuki), Pyatigorsk Institute (branch of NCFU), PSU, SKI RANEPA Moscow. 

Within the framework of the forum, a competition of student projects was held, in which students of the 4th year of the «Tourism» training direction of the Faculty of Socio-cultural service and Tourism: Bakumenko Alyona, Dedova Alexandra, Lyshnova Polina and Mohammadova Diana presented the project «Interethnic exhibition EthnOEXPO „Without stereotypes“. The essence of the project was to organize an interethnic exhibition EthnOEXPO „Without Stereotypes“, with zones of each region of the North Caucasus Federal District and the countries of Transcaucasia. 

According to the results of the competitive selection, the project of StGAU students took the honorable 2nd place.