Dakhin_Sustainable development of Nizhny Novgorod agglomeration

Dakhin_Sustainable development of Nizhny Novgorod agglomeration

UNESCO Chair Conference “Higher Education for Sustainable Development: Moving
the Agenda Forward”. 14-16 September, 2011, Leuphana University of Luneburg
Sustainable development of Nizhny
Novgorod agglomeration:
Continued public education
case of Russia.
Prof. Andrey Dakhin
Volgo-Viatsky Public Administration Academy
Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
The Nizhny Novgorod region (province)
is located almost directly in the centre of the
European part of the Russian Federation, on the
Western-European or Russian plain.
It covers the territory of 76.6 thousand
square kilometers with the population of
3411.0 thousand people that constitutes about
2.4 per cent of the total population of Russia.
Nizhny Novgorod agglomeration is the
central area of Nizhegorodskaia oblast and
includes following cities: Nizhny Novgorod (128
3.6 thou. people), Dzerzhinsk (252.5 thou. peo
ple), Kstovo (65.7 thou. people), Bor (77.7 thou.
people). The total population of the
agglomeration is about than 1,8 million people.
There are 7 State Universities and more
than 20 regional branches of Universities.
Dzerzhinsk
Bor
Kstovo
Sustainability of higher education can be
provided by creation of cooperation between
Universities, NGO and enterprises.
During 2009-2011 years the RCE-Nizhny
Novgorod includes following key participants.
They are: Nizhny Novgorod State University of
Architecture and Civil Engineering, Volgo-Vyatsky
Public Administration Academy , Nizhny
Novgorod centre of socio-economical expertise ,
Nizhny Novgorod regional organization of
invalids “Social rehabilitation”, MEGA-IKEA
Nizhny Novgorod and some branches of local
authorities.
This consortium has promoted several
kinds of public education projects for youth
and students in the field of ecology and
planning of sustainable development for
Nizhny Novgorod agglomeration. Target
groups of this projects was kids about 4-7
years ago (youth program) and bachelors and
magistrates of VVAGS and NNGASU (student
program).
Youth program
It was collaboration project of RCE NN and IKEA
NN for Kids Club of MEGA IKEA in Nizhny
Novgorod.
Programme goals: learning sustainable
development principles, developing personal
priorities
of
sustainable
development,
participating
in
designing
sustainable
development projects on a micro level. The
activities were carried out in the form of
environmental workshops in the Kids Club of
MEGA IKEA NN. These workshops consisted of
educational lessons on sustainable development.
Students program.
In 2009-2010 it was organized public competition
of students projects "Social adaptation projects
for Nizhny Novgorod sustainable development",
in 2010-2011 it was public competition of
students projects "Innovative projects for Nizhny
Novgorod agglomeration sustainable
development".
During the first cycle seven project groups
elaborated their ideas and the jury selected the
best four projects, what have continued
competition on the final step. In April 17 all
finalists projects was examined by the jury and
best projects was selected and it’s annotations
was published in the NIC SENEX Bulletin (2).
The first prize was granted to two projects:
«Marketing of services for disabled persons»
and “Technology incubator for disabled
persons: training, job placement, career”.
On the second cycle we has 10 project
groups and the projects was tied with problems
of location of new stadium for the World Cap in
football (2018), new centers for tourists and etc.
Following way of promoting of education activity
in the frame of sustainable development for
Nizhny Novgorod agglomeration is related with
created in 2011 the City public club “new Nizhny
Novgorod”.
It is organized with participation of RCENN for promoting of large public discussion
with topics on strategy of sustainable
development of Nizhny Novgorod
agglomeration. In this new frame the last
practice of students project competition will be
changed and correspond with topics of the
major professional topics.
The end.
Thank you!