Erda RTE

As a part of celebration of the UN's 70th anniversary, on October 29, 2015, Sanaka Samarasinha, the UN Resident Coordinator/UNDP Resident Representative in Belarus, has presented the textbook “Climate Change: impacts, mitigation and adaptation” developed in cooperation with Erda RTE (Anton Shkaruba, Viktar Kireyeu) for graduate programs of Belarusian universities. The presentation was held in Vitsebsk State University for the representatives of Belarusian and international academia and NGOs, Belarusian Ministries of Environment and Education, international donors.

Our colleagues from the Belarusian NGO Green Network have published their reflections on the Erda RTE - co-organised seminar on Green Economy and Landscape Planning, together with the summaries of some of the talks (Russian only):

http://greenbelarus.info/articles/23-10-2015/rentabelnost-prirody-ili-eksperty-ocenili-teoriyu-i-praktiku-ekosistemnyh-uslug

http://greenbelarus.info/articles/21-10-2015/zelyonye-fasady-i-kryshi-optimalnaya-plotnost-zastroyki-evrosoyuz-podelilsya-s

Our second summer school The Precautionary Principle: Governance of Innovation and Innovations in Governance co-organised with Central European University (Budapest) and European Environment Agency has been approved for the summer 2016! The call for applications will be announced soon!

On October 15, 2015 Erda RTE co-organises a seminar on "Landscape Planning Tools for Green Economy: EU experience for Belarus"; the seminar venue is Belarusian State Technological University is Minsk. The objective of this seminar is to discuss options for landscape planning applications to support development of green economy in Belarus, with a view of applying relevant EU experience.

As a mark of a proper completion of the course "Transition of environmental governance in V4" (120 academic hours), the sucessfull students of Kharkiv National University of Urban Economy and Kharkiv Karazin National University participating in the course, have received their certificates of completion on May 13 and 29, 2015 (news features and photos on official web-pages of the universities: http://ecology.kname.edu.ua/index.php/uk/8-novini/47-23-travnya-2015-roku, http://www-ecology.univer.kharkov.ua/uk/news/1-news/368--4-). The course was developed and taught by Anton Shkaruba (academic coordinator) and Viktar Kireyeu in cooperation with colleagues from Slovakia and Ukraine under a Visegrad VUSG project.