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The University of Hohenheim (UHOH) founded in 1818 is the oldest and one of the largest agricultural higher education institutions in Germany. As a rather small university with almost 10.000 students, it is very specific due to the profile which is shaped by the combination of its three faculties (agricultural sciences, natural sciences, and business, economic and social sciences). The strengths of the three faculties are used to initiate international scientific research cooperation and to coordinate cross country interdisciplinary projects.
Hohenheim cultivates international partnerships with universities and other research institutes in more than 90 countries around the world. The university manages an array of individual research partnerships and is a member of the Euroleague for Life Sciences. The wide ranging experience in the field of academic cooperation with the international partners extends widely into the Eastern Europe and Central Asia regions. This is largely due to the activities of the Eastern Europe Centre (EEC) at the university which was founded in 1995 after the breakdown of the Soviet Union to establish a scientific network with the agricultural academys and universities in Central and Eastern Europe. From 2015 the new department Eastern Europe and Asia at the Office of International Affairs continued the tasks of the Eastern Europe Centre.
The agricultural faculty was one of the first to introduce bachelor and master study cycles and is well experienced in launching study programs according to the international standards in German and English languages. With respect to the SARUD project topic, several modules at the university concern sustainable agriculture, e.g. with respect to environmental protection and agricultural food production, environmental science - soil, water and biodiversity and others.
Contacts:
Project coordination | Project management |
Warsaw University of Life Sciences is the oldest agricultural university and one of the largest universities in Poland. It is also one of the most modern universities, where tradition and modernity meet. The University offers a wide range of study programs - from biological and technical ones, through medicine, economics and humanities. WULS-SGGW offers good facilities and infrastructure in one place. On the 65-hectare main campus there are 9 dormitories, a modern library, a computer centre, a sports centre (with tennis courts, a sports hall and a swimming pool) a language centre, a veterinary clinic and much more. The campus is located in the southern part of Warsaw and can be easily reached from the city centre by subway or by bus. Over 1,200 university teachers and instructors make sure that you will gain plenty of knowledge and practical skills. At present, the university consists of 13 faculties and 5 interfaculty units; there are 27,000 students enrolled. The University is well known and respected, both domestically and internationally.
Contacts:
Prof. Dr. hab. Axel Schwerk | Dr. inz. Izabela Dymitryszyn Laboratory of Evaluation and Assessment of Natural Resources Phone: +48 22 593 2223 Fax: +48 22 593 2227 e-mail: dymitryszyn@wp.pl |
The Czech University of Life Sciences Prague is situated on spacious and modern campus in the north western outskirts of Prague, about 20 minutes from the city centre. The university focuses on educating students in the crucial areas of safety in the food chain and protection of the biosphere, including sustainable land and water management. CULS currently offers 6 BSc and 16 MSc study programmes taught entirely in English. CULS consists of Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources, Environmental Sciences, Forestry, Engineering as well as Economics and Management. The Faculty of Engineering also educates graduates in ecologically sound waste management, environmentally friendly road vehicle management and alternative energy production (i.e. solar cell technology).
Contacts:
Doc. PhDr. Michal Lostak, Ph.D. | Ing. Jakub Husak, Ph.D. Faculty of Economics and Management e-mail: husak@pef.czu.cz |
The profile of Nuertingen-Geislingen University (NGU), in German “Hochschule Umwelt Nürtingen-Geislingen (HfWU), is based on the principle of sustainability. Research and teaching is focused on four areas of competences: Business and Economics, Law, Planning, Nature and Environment. More than 5000 students are enrolled in one of the 27 Bachelor- and Master programs (14 bachelor and 13 postgraduate master), two of which are taught in English. A variety of institutes is engaged in applied research projects. The study programs of Nuertingen-Geislingen University have been greatly enhanced by the strong core competencies in business, economics and environmental studies prevalent at the university. The Institute for Applied Research (IAF), two experimental and research gardens for landscape architecture, environmental and urban planning together with the experimental agricultural research farm complete the university´s infrastructure. NGU is proud to run exchange and integrated study programs with more than 50 partner universities worldwide. Approximately 200 people are employed and nearly 140 professors lecture at the university.
NGU is embedded in one of the strongest innovative economic regions of Europe with close ties to global players and successful SME´s. The university`s faculties possess a service-sector bias with services in agribusiness, landscape architecture, environmental design and city planning as well as in business management, applied economics, finance and real estate management.
https://www.hfwu.de/hfwu-start/
Contact:
Prof. Dr. sc. agr. Heinrich Schuele | Dr. sc. agr. Angelika Thomas | M.A. Kathrin Dingler |
The Agency for Development of Agriculture and Rural Areas of the Federal State of Baden-Wuerttemberg, in German Landesanstalt für Entwicklung der Landwirtschaft und der ländlichen Räume (LEL), is a service centre for the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural areas of Baden-Württemberg. Its main duty is to support the regional agricultural offices in their administrative, advisory and vocational training tasks by providing further training for employees and training materials. The LEL has a well-equipped seminar centre (over 100 training days per year) and an own guesthouse. There is an excellent business connection between LEL and the University of Hohenheim as a result of various Leonardo da Vinci projects (RO/01/B/F/141072, SK/01/B/F/PP- 142243) and contacts of experts during conferences and further education events in Baden-Württemberg. LEL consists of 5 departments: education/training and advisory work, sustainable development of enterprises, rural development and landscape, agricultural markets and food sector, academy for rural areas. Reacting on the decrease in trained agricultural experts and advisors in different regions in Europe, especially in the Eastern Europe, LEL is involved in the CECRA (Certificate for European Consultants in Rural Areas) project on “Qualification and competence development for consulting personnel in the rural areas of Europe” with the target group of people in the agricultural, rural home economics and regional consulting service (regional manager, leader-managers, regional protagonists) in rural areas, who want to improve consulting skills and knowledge.
Contact:
Jürgen Käßer
Head of Department Education and Advice
Phone: +49 7171 917 128
Fax: +49 7171 917 101
e-mail: Juergen.Kaesser@lel.bwl.de
Russian State Agrarian University - Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural Academy
The Russian State Agrarian University – MTAA is the oldest higher-education institution for agriculture in Russia. The University provides higher education for specialists with secondary degrees, post graduate studies and doctor degrees in various specialties. University specializations are agronomy, animal science, soil science, agro-chemistry and ecology, technology, humanities and pedagogics, accounting and finances, economics, horticulture, agricultural and environmental engineering and professional education (life-long learning). Besides this, the University trains scientific-research staff at the post-graduate studies. The University also has an affiliate in Kaluga city with three faculties: agronomy, animal Science and economics.
RSAU-MTAA is internationally well connected and more than 300 foreign students are enrolled in the educational programmes. Training of foreign and Russian students is held in Russian and foreign language. The University provides Russian language courses and summer schools for foreign citizens. RSAU-MTAA, is currently involved in the ongoing Tempus project (PACAgro - Development of Public Accreditation of Agricultural Programs in Russia 2013-2016) with the objective to introduce the Bologna principles into the Russian quality assurance system of higher education and holds extended experiences in elaborating and implementing agricultural study programmes. The university successfully introduces a two-level education system: BSc and MSc. On the base of RSAU the Centre for Sustainable Development of Rural Areas was established. This centre is the main methodical and research point for all Russian organizations in this field.
Contacts:
Prof. Dr. Alexander Merzlov | Konstantin Malashenkov | Valery Chumakov |
Omsk State Agrarian University named after P.A. Stolypin
Omsk State Agrarian University named after P.A. Stolypin (OSAU) is a large scientific and research center with the highly developed infrastructure which comprises 8 various faculties, 3 institutions and a branch in city Tara.
The university offers a range of undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate courses, covering 11 aggregative groups of specialties: earth sciences, biological sciences, agriculture, forestry and fishery, veterinary medicine and animal husbandry, industrial ecology and biotechnology, technosphere safety and environmental engineering, geodesy, economics, etc.
The university´s infrastructure offers a wide range of all necessary services to facilitate educational process and has all means to engage and support students: practical training and marketing centers, business incubator, gardening center, co-working and linguistic centers.
The university´s international activity is mainly driven by the corporate aim to be integrated into the global scientific and educational network and promoted internationally as a modern innovative brand that is capable to produce world class specialists for the agroindustry. OSAU successfully participates in the international study projects such as Tempus, Erasmus Mundus and Erasmus+.
Contacts:
Regional project coordinator | Konstantin Emelianenko |
Michurinsk State Agrarian University
The university provides bachelor and master courses in different branches of agriculture for about 7400 students. Academic staff of the university conducts research in horticulture, agronomy and agricultural ecology, food production, agricultural engineering and economics. 113 PhD students carry out research in 21 major fields of agriculture. The university arranges 3-4 international scientific conferences annually on research in different agricultural and food production areas. About 90 international students from the CIS, Africa and China study at MichSAU bachelor and master courses. Some courses are partially delivered in English. Providing strategic partnership among agribusiness, education and society as well as working out the system of continuing education for agricultural professionals are key aims of the Institute of Further Training and Students’ Employment Assistance, which belongs to the university structure. Located in the Central Black Earth Zone, MichSAU plays an important role to provide the region with qualified agricultural experts. The university closely cooperates with the regional enterprises organizing consultancy work for agricultural experts. Due to the participation in the project of infrastructural development the university has recently built and equipped a new greenhouse research complex and a modern scientific-research centre, including the laboratory of advanced storage technologies, the laboratories of soil chemistry and physics and functional food production. Due to its longstanding tradition much attention is given to the development of the horticultural area, e.g. testing the frost resistance capacity of apple rootstocks. Preserving the fertility of the black soil types in the region has become more acute recently and is within the research scope of the Soil Chemistry and Physics Laboratory that has been investigating the biological peculiarities of the black soil degradation and estimation of its agro-ecological characteristics.
Contact:
Elena Yashina
Head of International Relations
Phone: +4 75 45 9 45 09
e-mail: yashina@mgau.ru
Novosibirsk State Agrarian University
Novosibirsk State Agrarian University (NSAU) is a big scientific and research centre. It is widely popular in Russia and abroad. The university is aimed at satisfying population needs and agricultural production of Western Siberia. The main goal of the university is educating and training people in agribusiness sphere; professional retraining in agribusiness is available as well. University development assumes prior directions; they are: modernization of education, development of scientific and innovation activity and integration into the world educational space. NSAU is developing as the leading agricultural institution of the region. It provides education and training in agricultural, engineering, natural science and humanities. The university is involved in developing new directions of research, and enhancing fundamental and applied research. NSAU is aimed at developing scientific, educational and industrial complex by means of integration between science, education and business; the university is also providing commercialization of research results. The university establishes small innovative enterprises and supports them. NSAU is interested in enhancing international cooperation. It actively participates in scientific, research and educational projects; it has sustainable relations with universities of Germany, Austria, Czech republic, Poland, China, USA etc. Novosibirsk SAU is engaged in entering the world educational space by means of applying all the requirements of Bologna Process and acquiring international students. NSAU is experienced in the implementation of Tempus projects, Erasmus Mundus Partnership project and implementation of joint educational, information and innovative projects with EU universities.
NSAU was actively involved RU partner in the Tempus project “Vocational training in rural development and ecology - RUDECO” (2010-2013) and developed the module “Reducing pollution in rural areas caused by agricultural, industrial and municipal waste”.
Contacts:
Andrey Shindelov | Liubov Schmidt Phone: +7 383 264 20 91 e-mail: lyubov-83@bk.ru |
Buryat State Academy of Agriculture, Ulan-Ude
The Buryat State Academy of Agriculture (BSAA) founded in 1931 is a leading school of higher education dealing with training of specialists in the fields of agriculture, natural resources management and environmental sciences. The faculty encompasses 433, 241 associate professors and 59 being full professors.
BSAA offers study programs of different levels: 37 BSc programs; 20 MSc programs and 4 specialist programs. BSAA faculty is engaged in vocational training and qualification upgrading of public administration and municipal civil servants in a wide range of agricultural and natural resources management issues to help policy makers and practitioners shape effective policy, improve the management and address the needs of rural population. The training programs are arranged by the Institute of qualification upgrading, vocational training, re-training and innovation, being the structural unit of the BSAA.
The BSAA has participated in several TEMPUS projects and has been a partner institution in TEMPUS “RUDECO” project. The project’s local group worked on developing the module “Rural tourism”. The module is introduced in the curriculum of the BSc program “Tourism”. The BSAA has initiated and participated in the follow up activities such as international conferences “Organic agriculture in the Republic of Buryatia” in summer 2014, International forum “Eco - and Agri-tourism” in July 2013.
The staff of Economics faculty has been involved in implementing the Federal target program "Sustainable development of rural territories for the years 2014-2017 and for the period till 2020".
Contacts:
Zoya Yampilova | Ivan Ishigenov | Erzhena Imeskenova Head of department of landscape design and ecology e-mail: imesc@mail.ru |
Samara State Agricultural Academy
Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education "Samara State Agricultural Academy" (FSBEI HE Samara SSAA) is an integral training and scientific institution in the Middle Volga Region with the focus on educational programs and programs for vocational training in life sciences, land management, agricultural sciences, engineering, economics and management. FSBEI HE Samara SAA campus is located in a picturesque surrounding, 35 km drive from a large industrial center of Samara Region called Samara city (http://samadm.ru/).
The total amount of students is 4734 (status 01.03.2016).
242 fulltime academicians perform teaching staff. 11% Doctors of Sciences and 71% Doctors of Philosophy are younger than 45 y.o.
SSAA has a federal license for educational activity according to the standards of the Russian higher education. The Academy consists of the Institute of Management technology and agricultural market (IMTAM) and 7 faculties, which provide programs in Agronomy, Agriengineering, Biotechnology and Veterinary Medicine, Economics, Agricultural products production and processing technology, Correspondence Learning faculty and Faculty of qualification improvement, as well as additional education. The programs are accredited up to the year 2020.
For the last several years a multilevel education system has been adopted in SSAA. SSAA offers 15 BSc courses and 4 MSc courses, PhD programs are provided in 10 branches of sciences, 3 programs of applied education or retraining (from 10 up to 42 ECTS), 13 programs of vocational training, 6 certified programs of qualification improvement (72 academic hours each) . The academy has a doctoral dissertation council on thesis confirmation for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and for the degree of Doctor of Sciences in the fields of animal husbandry and animal sciences.
SSAA was actively involved RU HEI partner in the Tempus project “Vocational training in rural development and ecology - RUDECO” (2010-2013) and developed the module “Sustainable use of water resources in rural areas”.
Contact:
Irina Akimova
PhD, associate professor
Head of International Relations
Phone: +7 939 754 04 86 (add. 212)
e-mail: interoffice.ssaa@mail.ru, Akimova_IA@ssaa.ru
Tambov State University named after G.R. Derzhavin
Tambov State University is the biggest institution of higher education in the region by the amount of students (15.000) and by the list of specializations (200). The main purpose of its work is the preparation of the high-qualified personnel for dealing with the whole range of important regional problems, as well as development and maintenance of projects regarding the sustainable development on the constituent territory level in Russian Federation.
The university is not only preparing young specialist but also holds courses for professional development of organizations, functionaries and private individuals. Furthermore, University offers the service of the Centre of the remote education, where informational-communicational department is developed. The University repeatedly took part in TEMPUS projects.
TSU was actively involved RU partner in the Tempus project “Vocational training in rural development and ecology - RUDECO” (2010-2013) and developed the module “Management of biological resources of rural areas”.
Contacts:
Aleksey Emelyanov | Marina Kashkovskaya | Aleksandr Gusev Head of the Laboratory of Medical Ecology and Nano-toxicology e-mail: nanosecurity@mail.ru |
Yaroslavl State Agricultural Academy
The main activities of the Yaroslavl State Academy of Agriculture are the implementation of programmes for secondary, higher and postgraduate education, the implementation of fundamental and applied research, including the sustainable development of agricultural, improving skills and training of specialists with higher and secondary professional education, dissemination of knowledge among population, increasing its educational and cultural level, preservation and increase the moral, cultural and scientific values of the society, formation of among students civil position, the development of responsibility, independence and creativity.
YSAA trains for the following professions and fields:
- Business accounting and audit;
- Economics and agricultural production management;
- Agronomy;
- Zootechnic;
- Agricultural mechanization.
YSAA was actively involved RU partner in the Tempus project “Vocational training in rural development and ecology - RUDECO” (2010-2013) and developed the module “Conversion of conventional farming into organic farming”.
Contacts:
Sergey Shchukin | Alexander Trufanov Associated Professor of Agricultural Department Phone: + 7 920 652 28 02 |
Stavropol State Agrarian University
The Stavropol State Agrarian University (SSAU) aspires: to expand the boundaries of knowledge and learning, provide the training of graduates and professionals, to improve the quality of life of the population of the South of the Russian Federation and to aspire the preservation and enhancement of moral, cultural and scientific values of the society.
SSAU was founded in 1930. It consists of 9 faculties, 63 departments, 83 innovative subdivisions, realizing educational , scientific- research and innovative activities, includes 132 programs of higher professional education are realized by the University, over 18,5 thousand students get their training here , 92 % teachers have academic degrees and tittles.
The University is a Winner of the EFQM Excellence Award 2013, the holder of the Russian federal grant “Innovational Educational Project, member of Association for European Life Sciences Universities (ICA), Association of European Businesses (AEB), European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM), Erasmus Mundus program, Tempus program, Magna Charta.
SSAU was actively involved RU partner in the Tempus project “Vocational training in rural development and ecology - RUDECO” (2010-2013) and developed the module on “Key terms, theoretical base of sustainable development and approaches for regional and local programmes in Russia”.
Contact:
Svyatoslav Serikov
Head of the International Relations Office
e-mail: serikovss@mail.ru,
iro.stavropolsau@mail.ru
Association "Ecological Commitee", Omsk
Assiciation Ecological Committee (ECOMSK) was founded in 2000 as a union of people who have been leaders of environmental project in the 90-s. The main subjects are: conducting research and developing fundamental and significant applied complex scientific problems in the sphere of environment; assistance in forming social-ecological policy aimed at rationalization and optimization of human, society and biosphere relations; participation in promotion of ecological education and forming ecological ideology of Russian Federation citizens; development and real participation in implementation of sustainable development strategy in Russia and its regions.
Contact:
Sergey Kostarev
Head of Association Ecological Committee
e-mail: Sergey.kostarev@gmail.com
The National Association for Fruit Growers, Michurinsk
The National Association for Russian Fruit Growers (NARF) is aimed at promoting the cutting edge technologies in planting material production (fruit and berries), high density orchards planning and marketing the healthy planting material.
The organization unites fruit growers’ from all over Russia and other countries for the purpose of improving orchard management; creating and testing key technological components in fruit production; seminars organisation; developing of high-density orchard projects and their technological support. The association closely cooperates with big and small fruit growing enterprises in Russia, organising seminars, discussions and conferences dedicated to different orchard growing issues. It has a wide network of scientific and industrial partners in Poland, Italy and the Netherlands.
Contact:
Igor Mukhanin | Anton Milyaev |
People’s Khural of the Republic of Buryatia, Ulan-Ude
Committee of the People's Khural of the Republic of Buryatia (PKRB) on land issues, agricultural policy and consumer market is a structural body of PKH RB engaged in legislative activity and analysis of the implementation of laws on agriculture, land relations, the consumer market, the animal world.
Contact:
Alexander Popov
Committee land issues
e-mail: kom.agrar@yandex.ru
JASSO TOUR Co LTD, Ulan-Ude
The company JASSO TOUR is a tour operator of outbound, inbound and domestic tourism. The main activity is the development, promotion and organization of the tourism product. To achieve its objectives the company has its affiliation in the rural district. It implements today different tourism projects. The tourist complex is located in an area Atsagat Hara, on the territory of rural settlement Naryn Atsagat, Zaigraevsky district of the republic of Buryatia, 50 km from the city of Ulan-Ude. One of the main objectives in creating the Ethno complex is assistance in the development of rural areas and support in employment of rural citizens. The work is organized so that residents of the village help in developing tourism object in the rural area get involved in agricultural products production to supply the restaurant of the tourist ethno complex. The business is arranged so that to involve school children of the village during the school holidays to help in farming activities as well as cultural shows.
The rural citizens develop cultural programs to demonstrate the customs and way of life of the Buryat people, both ancient and modern economy together with company management board. The company team studies national and foreign tourist preferences and interests and develops projects involving rural municipalities and citizens. Tourists are attracted by the demonstration of modern life are immersed in the local life. They are happy to take an active part in everyday life of a villager. Get up early in the morning with the owners of the house, taking part in the caring cattle, cleaning, and in the evening milking. They participate in the preparation of dairy products such as butter, cream, cottage cheese. They are also happy to take part in haymaking. About 80% of local people and 10% of urban dwellers are involved in organizing event tourism activities.
Contact:
Svetlana Tsybikdorzhieva
General director
e-mail: info@jassotour.ru
Ministry of Agriculture of Russian Federation, Moscow
The Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation is carrying out functions:
- development of state policy and standard legal regulation in the sphere of agroindustrial complex, including animal husbandry, veterinary science, plant growing, quarantine of plants, land reclamation, fertility of soils, regulation of the market of agricultural production, raw materials and food, food and processing industry, production and turn of tobacco production, sustainable development of rural territories;
- development and realization state policy and standard legal regulation in the sphere of the land relations and state monitoring of this lands;
- rendering the state services in the sphere of agroindustrial complex, including sustainable development of rural areas.
The Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation carries out the activity in interaction with other federal executive authorities, executive authorities of subjects of the Russian Federation, local governments, public associations and other organizations.
The ministry exercises coordination and control of activity being under its authority of Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance, Federal Agency for Fishery.
Contact:
Dmitry Toropov
Head of Department of Rural development and social policy
e-mail: toropov.54@mail.ru
S.Seifullin Kazakh Agro Technical University, Astana
S.Seifullin Kazakh Agro Technical University is the largest university with agricultural and technical profile in Northern and Central Kazakhstan. On behalf of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan the University began to transform into a research agricultural university on world level with partners from the world's leading research universities and research centres.
The research work of KATU is carried out on agriculture economics sphere: plant growing, farming, agro-chemistry and soil science, protection of plants; microbiology, veterinary science and animal husbandry; biotechnologies of plants and animals; land management, mechanization and electrification of agriculture, and also the humanities. Fundamental and applied research is carried and realized by state and off-budget sources. There are several research institutes, design office centres to improve the efficiency of scientific research activity at university.
Scientific research is realized on:
- the influence of adaptive systems and resource-saving technologies of agriculture on labour productivity in grain manufacture (Akmolinsk oblast);
- the increase of the effectiveness of management system of agro complex subjects performing principles of economic management;
- recommendations on increase of competitiveness of agrarian economy on the basis of diversification of agricultural production and development of alternative kinds of activity for strengthening potential of rural territories;
- problems of industrially-innovative development of agrarian sector of economy in Republic Kazakhstan;
- prospects of development of micro-crediting in the Republic of Kazakhstan;
- core directions for a market economy in Northern Kazakhstan;
- actual problems of perfection of management in agrarian and industrial complex.
On the basis of the Economic department the Centre of agrarian development (CADEP) was created for research in the field of agriculture and increase of its efficiency.
Contacts:
| Regional project coordinator Nadezhda Meleshenko Phone: +7 717 2 39 59 27 e-mail: nmeleshenko@mail.ru | Sergei Mogilnyy Vice Rector for organizing the Research Agrarian University and for International Relations e-mail: sergey_mog@list.ru | Sara Kitaibekova Department of Agronomy faculty e-mail: saraorazbek@mail.ru |
A.Baitursynov Kostanay State University
Baitursynov Kostanay State University (KSU) is the leading educational scientific and methodological centre of the northern part of the country. It comprises 7 Faculties with 34 Bachelor, 21 Master and 4 PhD programmes. The University is a member of European Association of Universities. The activity of the university aims at satisfying the needs of the regional development via improving the quality of research and education. The Agrarian and Biological faculty includes 4 Departments. The Department of Agronomy trains undergraduate and graduate students. Branches of the Department of Agronomy work at Kostanay Research Institute of Agriculture and Karabalyk Agricultural Experimental Station. These branches contribute in research work, organizing apprenticeship, professional development courses for the teaching staff and conducting field classes. The Department of Ecology runs two programmes: undergraduate “Ecology” and graduate “Geoecology and environmental management”. In both English language is introduced for instruction. Two laboratories belong to the department: Laboratory of Soil Science and Ecology Laboratory. The Soil Science laboratory enhances skills of selecting soil samples, morphological, structural, chemical analysis of soil samples. The Ecology laboratory is equipped for sampling and analysis of soil, water, air, solid waste. The research is carried out within the directions: Impact of anthropogenic load on the ecological balance in ecosystems in Kostanay region, Investigation of environmental problems of geosystems in the region. The department actively cooperates with universities and foreign countries, with public and private entities in the field of ecology and environmental protection. On the basis of cooperation agreements within the Board of Trustees research, the department organizes regular meetings and round table discussions with leading experts, seminars, lectures by foreign teachers and leading practitioners.
Contacts:
Yelena Kandalina | Zarina Dosmukhamedova |
Sh.Ualikhanov Kokshetau State University
Sh.Ualikhanov Kokshetau State University (KokSU), established in 1996, belongs to the leading regional universities in the Northern Kazakhstan. Currently Sh.Ualikhanov Kokshetau State University encompasses 6 faculties. Academic staff consists of over 500 professors. The students are trained in 54 specialties. The total number of students is about 9000. The university offers educational programs on Bachelor (4 years), Master (2 years), Ph.D (3 years). The university educational process is adopted to the principles of the Bologna Process based on ECTS and “University-Enterprise” relations. Since 2010 KokSU is a member of Magna Charta Universitatum (Bologna, Italy). In order to promote research activities and expanding the range of applied objectives new scientific laboratories and institutes are installed at the university, such as the Eurasian Centre for Sustainable Development named after Vernadsky, or the Scientific Research Institute of the region, a research laboratory of agro innovation and laboratory of linguistics.One of the priority tasks of the KokSU is to ensure the competitiveness and demand for the graduates, international recognition of diplomas, and high economic and social status of the teaching staff. Today the university gradually build an integration strategy with the world educational and scientific information system.The university closely works with more than 60 leading research centres in Poland, Turkey, Germany, USA, UK, Slovakia, Russia, the countries of Central Asia.Lecturers and students participate in international educational programs such as: DAAD, IREX, LOGO, TEMPUS, Erasmus Mundus, State Scholarship "Bundestag", "Bolashak. The university actively pursue a program of academic mobility for teachers and students.According to the rating of the Independent Kazakhstan Agency for Quality Assurance Sh.Ualikhanov Kokshetau State University ranks twelfth among multidisciplinary universities of the country.
Contacts:
Anuarbek Kakabayev | Lazzat Bermaganbetova |
Association of forestry and wood processing organizations of the Republic of Kazakhstan "Zhasyl Orman"
The Association of forestry and wood processing organizations of the Republic of Kazakhstan "Zhasyl Orman" represents the interests of its members in governmental and other organizations. The association:
- Gives support in development, coordination and implementation of national programs and non-governmental projects in the field of forestry and wood processing; Contributes to improvement of laws and regulations;
- Cooperates with regulatory and administrative authorities of the Republic of Kazakhstan in issues of support and development of forestry and wood processing;
- Participates in the international cooperation activities in fields of forestry and wood processing;
- Organizes seminars, conferences, exhibitions, round tables etc.;
- Cooperates with governmental and non-governmental national and international organizations;
- Closely cooperates with all bio-reservations in Kazakhstan, e.g. Korgalzhyn State Nature Reserve in Akmola and Karagandy Provinces of Kazakhstan, located west of the city of Astana;
- Has own serial publications.
Contact:
Kydyrbaev Duman
e-mail: oyl_zhasylorman@mail.ru
Republican Public Association 'Kazakhstan Farmers Union', Astana
The Republican Public Association 'Kazakhstan Farmers Union' is a representative of non-governmental organizations of the agricultural sector. Its main mission is the consolidation of farmers to protect their rights and interests and promote the development and implementation of targeted programs for the development and support of entrepreneurship in the country's agriculture. It is committed to improving the state and non-state support of the participants of the agricultural sector based on market principles, leasing of machinery and equipment, access to financial resources and new technologies. Appearing on equal ground with the government, the Association strives to create favorable conditions for the development of family farms, to guarantee a quality food, quality products and services to the end user. With branches and offices in almost all regions of Kazakhstan, the Farmers Union consolidates today more than 6,000 small and relatively large farms.
Contact:
Auezkhan Darinov
e-mail: ard_astana@mail.ru
Department of Agriculture of Kostanay Region Akimat
Department od Agriculture of Kostanay Region Akimat aims at Ensuring food security in the region.
The main task of the Department is to facilitate the achievement of objectives:
- Implementation of measures aimed at ensuring the efficient and effective functioning of the agricultural sector;
- Activities in the veterinary field (protection of animals from diseases and their treatment, ensuring animal health security, protection of the territory of the administrative-territorial unit of the introduction and spread of infectious and exotic diseases from other states; prevention and elimination of pollution in the implementation of physical and legal entities activity in the veterinary field).
The main functions of the Department:
- Implementation of measures to ensure food safety area;
- Formation of an effective system of agribusiness;
- Ensuring efficient and effective functioning of the agricultural sector area;
- Activities in the field of veterinary medicine.
Contact:
Murzin Baybosyn
e-mail: baybosynmurzin@gmail.com
Public Association "Association of Farmers of Kostanay Region"
Public Association “Association of Farmers of Kostanay Region” (AFKR) aims at promoting the interests of farmers at the regional and national level. AFKR represents and protects the rights and interests of its members in relations with government and other bodies participated in discussions of the laws and regulations and their projects affecting the interests of its members, making the proposals to the relevant bodies of state power and control; cooperation with state authorities in the development and implementation of government programs to support farmers.
Contact:
Zhetpes Amantayeve-mail: oo-afko@mail.ru,zhetesamantayev@yandex.ru
Department of Agriculture in Akmola Region, Kokshetau
The main mission of the State Institution "Department of Agriculture Akmola region" - implementation of the state policy in the field of agriculture, in the grain market in the field of seed production, plant protection, plant quarantine, in the field of livestock breeding.
The tasks of state bodies in the field of agriculture:
- food security area based on sustainable growth in agricultural production
- diversification of agricultural production, taking into account climatic conditions and market conditions and increasing technical equipment
- increasing the productivity and quality of animal products
- monitoring of agricultural markets and sustainable development and support of processing industries, improving the competitiveness of agricultural products.
Contact:
Dimash Talasbayev
e-mail: akm.shu.disp@mail.ru
German Agrarian Centre
German Agrarian Centre Ltd. (DAZ) is a private company that has extensive experience in the fields of vocational training and practice-oriented education in the field of agricultural and environmental technologies. DAZ provides high quality education to staff members of agricultural enterprises and teachers of agricultural colleges in Kazakhstan. The Centre was fouded in 2010 as a joint initiative of a group of the German agribusiness companies and the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture. DAZ cooperates closely with the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Education of Kazakhstan. In total 4000 agricultural specialists and teachers have been trained at DAZ since 2010.
http://www.daz-kasachstan.net/
Contacts:
Alexander Toews | Olessya Kobzeva |
Ministry of Agriculture and Food of Omsk Region, Russian Federation
The Ministry of Agriculture and Food of Omsk Region (MAFOR) is a regional public body and responsible ministry for the development of agriculture in Omsk Region. The linking point for agrarian education, business, research and Government. Coordination of relevant activities at the regional level.
Contact:
Oleg Podkorytov
First Vice-minister of Agriculture of Omsk region
e-mail: imanishe@mail.ru
Tambov Region Administration of Agriculture, Russian Federation
The main task of the Tambov Region Administration of Agriculture (TRAA) is to promote and support the state policy in the area of agricultural production, food processing and rural territories development, to support agricultural and food production enterprises, to plan rational agricultural land management in Tambov region.
The regional administration of agriculture consists of 12 departments responsible for the implementation of the agrarian policy in the region. They fulfil the following functions aimed to:
- to provide proper land management and rational use of agricultural land;
- to plan the socio-economic development of the regional agriculture;
- to coordinate the work of the agricultural production in the region;
- to consult on the economic and legal aspects of agricultural production;
- to support the agricultural producers by distributing the subsidies from the local and federal budgets;
- to control the distribution of financial support in the agricultural sector;
- to consult the owners of big and small agricultural enterprises on the application packages for obtaining the subsidies;
- to develop the governmental regional policy in the sphere of agriculture and food production in order to meet the demands of the region population;
- to support local food producers by developing special investment programmes;
- to organize training courses for agricultural experts;
- to analyse the demographic situation in the agricultural sector and to cooperate with higher educational institutions in developing the programmes for training the agricultural management specialists.
Contact:
Galina Martynova
e-mail: mgv@agro.tambov.gov.ru
Stolypin Centre of Regional Development, Russian Federation
Human capital development as part of broader initiative of asset based community development targeting rural, agricultural territories. The principal activities are based on participatory seminars to train local farmers and entrepreneurs in basics of business management, access to capital and marketing. Additional specialized seminars target farmers using farmer field schools. Finally, the creation and support for Local Initiative Groups (LIGs) engaged in ABCD activities.
Contact:
Nikolay Sluchevsky
e-mail: N.Sluchevsky@stocen.org,
nsluchevsky@gmail.com
Russian Committee for the UNESCO Program on Man and the Biosphere
Russian Committee (RC) for the UNESCO Program on Man and the Biosphere (MAB) was founded in 1976. RС MAB operates within the framework of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The main objective was to ensure the participation of environmental specialists in international projects MAB and Protected Areas of the World Network of Biosphere Reserves. The network plays an important role in the study and conservation of biodiversity in different regions of the world, contributes to the creation available to researchers databases and allows data exchange observations of global environmental change; carried out in biosphere reserves using standardized methods of integrated monitoring. With the active participation of RС MAB 41 biosphere reserves created in Russia.
http://www.sevin.ru/menues1/index_rus.html?/agreements/mab_c.html
Contact:
Yury Dgebuadze
e-mail: yudgeb@gmail.com,
dgebuadze@sevin.ru
Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary
Corvinus University of Budapest (CUB) defines itself as a research university oriented towards education, where the scientific performance of the academic staff measures up to the international standard and the students can obtain a competitive degree having a standard and knowledge content identical to similar-profile universities and acknowledged on the European Union's labour market and on a global scale.
Admitting more than 14,000 students Corvinus university offers educational programmes in agricultural sciences, business administration, economics, and social sciences, and most of these disciplines assure a leading position in Hungarian higher education. At the same time, its key ambition is to display the institution's uniqueness and to exploit the synergies resulting from professional diversity and from studying multiple disciplines.
Corvinus University, which functions as a real 'universitas', accepts students at six faculties and offers courses leading to degrees at the bachelor, master and doctoral level in countless specialisations taught in Hungarian, English, French or German, qualifying them in a wide variety of fields.
http://portal.uni-corvinus.hu/
Contact:
György Pataki
Associate professor at the department of Environmental Economics and Technology
e-mail: gyorgy.pataki@uni-corvinus.hu
Association for Promotion of Entrepreneurial Activity in Kostanay region, Kazakhstan
The mission of APEAKR is to create favourable economic climate in which small and medium business in Kostanay region will be able to smoothly and steadily develop, improve their economic well-being and contribute to the creation of new jobs. The objectives of APEAKR include:
- representation and protection of the rights and interests of its members in relations with government and other bodies, as well as public associations and political parties;
- the initiation and promotion of measures to improve the professional skills seminars, round tables, training materials;
- discussion of the laws and regulations and their projects affecting the interests of its members, making them the proposals to the relevant bodies of state power and control;
- cooperation with state authorities in the development and implementation of government programs to support business entities;
- initiating, promoting and carrying out joint activities to promote the development of entrepreneurial activity;
- investment promotion and search for partners (identification and promotion of investment opportunities, etc.);
- External Trade Organization, exhibitions, fairs, competitions among entrepreneurs; assistance in the organization of enterprises;
- formation of a positive image of the entrepreneur, member of the Association.
Contact:
Petr Sukhinin
e-mail: apeakr@yandex.ru