During the second week (October 12-16) of the UNESCO/ISEDC Co-sponsored Fellowships Programme the fellows visited various lectures and seminars, participated in professional discussions with lecturers and students of the Ecological Faculty of Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia.

The curriculum agenda was devoted to the problems of modern society, in particular to the topical issues, such as “Global climate change”, “Low-carbon development”, “Energy poverty” and “Environmental safety”. 

On October 16, the participants of the IX session of the programme accompanied by Alexander Antonov, ISEDC Chief sector of educational activities, and Mikhail Lyalin, ISEDC expert on energy efficiency and renewable energy, visited the Museum of Earth Sciences at Lomonosov Moscow State University.

The museum expositions reveal the history of the development of scientific knowledge and the content of different scientific ideas. The installations show the latest achievements of scientific thoughts in the field of earth sciences, relationships between living and nonliving in nature, formation of the modern nature and human activity in this area.

In the upcoming third week of the programme it is planned to conduct online lectures and webinars with experts from the Northern (Arctic) Federal University (SAFU) and St. Petersburg State Technological University of Plant Polymers (Spb GTURP), as well as to arrange an online tour around educational and scientific center on energy innovation at SAFU.

In addition, ISEDC will be visited by the project manager of the UNDP/GEF project “Building energy efficiency in the North West of Russia” Mr Vitaly Becker and the project consultant Mr Andrey Dadonov. Also, the UNDP TV crew of the project will visit International Sustainable Energy Development Centre in order to prepare a video film about the implementation process of the educational programme.

On the 22nd and 23rd of October 2015, a few visits to educational higher institutions are scheduled according to the programme’s timetable, in particular visits to All-Russian Research Institute for Electrification of Agriculture and Moscow State Construction University. During the excursions fellows will be able to see experimental laboratories and become familiar with innovative developments of Russian scientists.

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