In the third week of training, the series of lectures with invited experts from Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia and Lomonosov Moscow State University was held in the ISEDC.
On October 15, the fellows met the members of the Department of Thermodynamics and Heat Engines of the Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas. Professor Valery Bessel, Assistant Renata Mingaleyeva and Master student Dmitry Sidorov presented a series of reports on the topic “Renewable Energy Sources for the Oil and Gas Complex of Russia”.
During the lectures, the fellows became familiar with the actual trends in the development of the world economy and energy, the state of the resource base and the extraction of organic fuel and hydrocarbon raw materials, the influence of hydrocarbons on geopolitical trends, the concepts of energy efficiency and energy sensitivity of the economy, the efficiency of thermal energy, and research work carried out at the Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas, in the area of increasing the energy efficiency and reliability of energy supply of oil and gas facilities in Russia by means of the use of renewable energy sources.
During the following discussion, various issues of the energy production in the world, ways of the developing of the global energy were discussed. Some practical problems of the efficiency of using renewable energy sources for energy supply of oil and gas facilities of Russia were assessed. The reaction of the audience showed the great interest in the discussed issues.
On October 16-17, the participants of the 12th session of the UNESCO/ISEDC Co-sponsored Fellowships Programme took part in the events of the International Forum “Open Innovations”, the topic of which was “Sources of the Digital Breakthrough”. The issues of the development of the state innovation support programmes, involvement in the international innovation-acceleration community, stimulating and strengthening innovation activities, opportunities for the commercialization of ideas and other corresponding issues of technology development in Russia and the world were discussed. Also the exchange of practical experience in development and commercialization of the latest technologies and the popularization of the advanced research and development of the global technology brands were talked over.
On October 18, Anna Kurbatova, Ph.D., Associate Professor of the Environmental Monitoring and Forecasting Department of the Environmental Faculty at the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, gave a lecture at the ISEDC.
On October 19, the lecture about environmental assessment, the value of ecosystem services, environmental economics, renewable and non-renewable resources was given by the associate professor of the Department of Environmental Economics at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, Doctor of Economics Olga Kudryavtseva. The participants also took part in a game experiment on environmental economics, the point of which was to make a decision on the use of shared resources.
In the final week of training (October 22-26), the participants of the 12th session of the UNESCO/ISEDC Co-sponsored Fellowships Programme will visit industrial and test laboratories (scientific and educational), research centers of the Moscow State (National Research) University of Civil Engineering and the Renewable Energy Sources Research Laboratory in the Moscow State University.
The lectures of Associate Professor of the Department of Thermodynamics and Heat Engines of the Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas, Ph.D. Mikhail Vorontsov and his assistant Anatoly Grachev are also on the schedule.
On October 25, 2018, a certification exam will be held, during which the fellows will present their examination projects. They will analyze the situations in the energy sectors of their countries of origin, show statistical data and assess the perspectives for the energy development.
On October 26, 2018, a ceremony will be held to present certificates of successful completion of the 12th session of the UNESCO/ISEDC Co-sponsored Fellowships Programme for specialists from developing countries and countries with the economies in transition.
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For reference
UNESCO/ISEDC Co-sponsored Fellowships Programme for specialists from developing countries and countries with economies in transition is implemented annually in accordance with the Agreement between the Government of the Russian Federation and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on the establishment and operation of the International Sustainable Energy Development Centre under the auspices of UNESCO (ISEDC).
The purpose of the Fellowships Programme is to create an international platform for the development of international cooperation in the field of sustainable energy development and institutional and human capacity building in Asia, Africa, Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and CIS countries.
Since 2008, 11 sessions of the Fellowships Programme have been held with the participation of 179 specialists from 78 countries.
In 2008-2011, the sessions of the Fellowships Programme were held at the premises of the Moscow Energy Institute (MEI). From 2012 to 2015, the sessions were held at the premises of Environmental faculty of the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (PFUR). Since 2016, sessions are carried out at the premises of ISEDC in English, which allows to significantly expand the geography of the participating countries and increase the number of participants of the Fellowships Programme.
