UNESCO Chair in Environmental Dynamics and Global Climate Change

In 2006 in its resolution the Government of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug ? Yugra decided to allocate funding from the Autonomous Okrug budget to restore the University laboratory in the village Shapsha and acquire state-of-the-art field lab equipment.

In August 2008 the agreement on the establishment of a UNESCO Chair was signed between the United Nations Educational, Scientific And Cultural Organization and Yugra State University.

The opening ceremony of the UNESCO Chair at Yugra State University took place on 28 December, 2008.

The Chair includes the following laboratories:

gas chromatography;
biogeocenology;
flora and vegetation;
geoecological monitoring of the environment, created with financial support of oil company "Salym Petroleum Development NV".

Research and student practices are conducted at the international field stations in Shapsha and Mukhrinsky. The idea of establishing the YuSU-based Centre of Environmental Dynamics and Global Climate Change and International Field Station was widely supported by the academic community around the world, in particular by Ramsar Convention Secretariat for Europe (Switzerland), the Northern Forum, the Circumpolar Universities Association, Institute for Environment and Sustainability of the European Commission Joint Research Centre (Ispra, Italy), Utrecht University (the Netherlands), Kuopio University (Finland),University of Greifswald (Germany) and Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry (Germany).

The need to create a UNESCO Chair in Yugra was reflected in the decisions ensuing from the Council of Europe conference "International and Foreign Economic Relations of Subjects of the Russian Federation" which was held in Khanty-Mansiysk on April 6 and 7, 2005 under the chairmanship of Alexander Filipenko.

The Programme of the Chair is developed in conference with the Department on Environment Protection and Ecological Safety of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug ?Yugra.

Contact information:

Building 1, Office 714.

Tel./fax +7 (3467) 357713.

E_Lapshina@ugrasu.ru

http://www.ugrasu.ru/international/unesko/