Energy saving and environmental monitoring in Russia
Energy saving and environmental monitoring in Russia
A delegation of the University of Genoa participated, from 17 to 19 of last September at the Stavropol State Agrarian University (Russian Federation), in the official opening ceremony of the course, equivalent to a Master's Degree, in "Innovative Technologies for Energy Saving and Environmental Protection", in the framework of the Tempus project “GREENMA”, whose coordinator is the University of Genoa.
The project is carried out, according to the Bologna Process principles, with the partnership of 21 institutions: in addition to our University, 11 Russian Universities, 3 Member States’ Universities (City University of London, Alicante and the Polytechnic of Katowice), 5 Russian stakeholders (regional governments and business associations), and finally the TICASS Consortium, in order to represent a good practice for the implementation, by our University, of the so-called knowledge triangle (University - research - business) and of collaborative actions among the main actors of the local socio-economic frame.
The event provided also for a commencement ceremony, presided over by Prof. Pietro Zunino, Director of the DIME Department at the Polytechnic School, of the certificates of participation in the intensive course, attended in Genoa from September to November 2013 by part of junior teaching staff, researchers and assistants from Russian Universities, which now constitute the new generation of teaching staff involved in the GREENMA course. The course is regularly recognized and authorized by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation and is being implemented in six Universities (Moscow "Mendeleev", Voronezh, Tambov, Yekaterinburg, Vladimir and Stavropol), with five other affiliated Universities belonging to relevant industrial districts (Ivanovo, Perm, Tyumen).
The Tempus programme has been transformed in 2014 into the new Erasmus+ programme, whose aim is always to promote mobility at different levels and the development of university cooperation among EU Member States and Partner Countries, oriented towards curricular reform and university governance.
The opening in Stavropol was held simultaneously with the coordination meeting of the GREENMA project, having as agenda the definition of an agreement on the guidelines of a model, to be developed by October 2015 and to be submitted to the competent Russian federal authorities, in order to define the relationships among Universities and stakeholders for the designing of a teaching offer in line with professions related to energy savings, environmental control and sustainable development.
For further information on GREENMA, you can visit the website http://greenma.tstu.ru/ or contact the unit coordinating the project, Support Service for International Strategies intstrat@unige.it.
