Speech by the coordinator of the “UnWaste” project at the VII International Summer School “Integrated Management of Natural Resources in a Green Economy”

The annual VII International Online Summer School "Integrated Management of Natural Resources in a Green Economy" was organized at the Kazakh Agrotechnical University named after S. Seifullin from June 21 to July 2, 2021 with the participation of more than 100 students, master's students, doctoral students, and teachers from 13 countries: Italy, Germany, Poland, Turkey, Morocco, Ireland, the Czech Republic, Sweden, the USA, Russia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan. The organizer of the school was the Faculty of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment of KATU named after S. Seifullin.

Lectures and practical classes were held daily by lecturers and professors from partner universities in the near and far abroad in the field of green economics and precision agriculture.

The School lecturers presented the results of the EU Erasmus+ projects implemented at S. Seifullin KATU. Prof. Dr. Gunnar Prause from the University of Wismar, Germany, the project coordinator, presented information on the new UnWaste project “Development of a circular economy in partner countries by development and implementation of the Master's programme “Waste Management”. Professor Sergey Tyaglov, Director of the Institute of Sustainable Development and Environmental Protection of the Rostov State University of Economics, the Russian partner of the UnWaste project, also spoke with a report “Promising trends in the application of the foundations of a green economy”. The lecturers stressed that the direction of the UnWaste project is completely new, and the university will work on developing a module on Waste Management, which will be implemented in the Department of Ecology and Forestry and Forestry of the newly created Faculty of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment.

According to the Dean of the Faculty, Dani Sarsekova, the main goal for the participants of the Summer School is to gain new knowledge, master innovative technologies and methods for conducting scientific research in the field of forestry, ecology and wildlife.