International Projects under European Union Programmes
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Erasmus Mundus
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Kolarctic ENPI CBC Programme:
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EU Seventh Framework Programme FP7:
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Nordic Council of Ministers:
- creating the multidisciplinary network of researchers that will exchange best policies;
- and practices on healthy ageing in the Nordic-Russian region, paying attention to the situation of Indigenous and non-Indigenous people.
- Development of sustainable international academic and business partner network aimed at wider wind turbines/parks application in Cold Climate regions;
- conducting research on wind turbine application under cold climate conditions;
- studying the problem of ice and snow impacts on wind turbine operation under cold climate conditions.
CETIA: Coastal Environment, Technology and Innovation in the Arctic / 1 call
CETIA will contribute with knowledge, innovation and expertise in addressing challenges posed by offshore developments in the sensitive marine environment in the Arctic.
КITENPI: Kolarctic IT Education Networking Partnering Infrastructure
Increase collaboration between academia and ICT industry. KITENPI strengthens competitiveness of the involved regions in the area of ICT for increasingly global markets, and promotes competence in cross-border collaboration.Barents Cross Border University Development Project / BCBU+
The Barents Cross Border University development (BCBU+) project is based on the cooperation among partner universities involved in the Barents Cross Border University network (BCBU). The project contributes to establishment of higher education in the Barents region by developing jointly international multidisciplinary Master's programs of BCBU in the fields of comparative social work, information systems, circumpolar health and wellbeing and environmental engineering.
BART Public-Private Partnership in Barents Tourism / 1 call
Contributing to the regional and economic development of the Barents region by creating and initiating development mechanisms in long term public-private partnership for the tourism industry on all stakeholders' levels.ArctiChildren In-NET: Empowering School e-Health Model in the Barents Region / 2 call
Overall objective: Developing New e-Health Approaches and Strengthening the Learning and Health connection through multimodalities and ICT applications at Schools
School for all – Development of Inclusive Education / 4 call
Overall objective: creation of modern system of inclusive education in the European North of Russia based on the best international experience and disseminating the project results to other regions. To promote educational conditions of vulnerable people (such as with special educational needs, immigrants, juvenile offenders, Roman population, other groups ‘at risk’), to improve their accessibility and participation in society and to promote their social contacts in joint activities.
Wind Energy Education Network: promotion of research and education about wind energy in cold climates
Project objective: to improve the quality of educational materials, through network cooperation, exchange of experiences both among academic staff and the knowledge sharing and supervision of students
Understanding ageing, gender and ethnicity: Experiences from European Arctic (AGE-Arctic)
Project objective: to explore ageing, gender and ethnicity through the lens of equality and social justice.
Implementation period: 2020-2023.
Indigenous and non-indigenous residents of the Nordic-Russian region: Best practices for equity in healthy ageing
Project objectives:
Project period: 2020-2022
Wind Energy: Joint innovation solutions for the future needs of Northern regions
Project objectives:ARCTIC HERITAGE: Developing architectural solutions and conservation techniques for unique cultural objects
Project objectives: to strengthen academia, state (public authorities), wooden craft professionals & conservation architects (business community) collaboration, enhance knowledge and develop expertise in areas of shared interest between Russia, Norway and Finland in the field of architectural and technological solutions for preservation and sustainable management of the Arctic unique wooden cultural heritage objects (CHO), combining old traditional & innovative approaches.
Project period: 2020-2022Deconstructing Structural Inequality: Gender Equality in Reindeer Herding Sámi Communities
The project establishes a network of scholars from Greenland, Finland, Norway, Russia, and Sweden. Its primary aim is to explore structural gender inequalities that apply to the Sámi people in general and reindeer-herding Sámi in particular. The project intends to collect and gather existing knowledge on structures causing gender disparities. In this context, one of the goals of the project is also to explore the framework of human rights applicable to Sámi women as it relates to the principle of non-discrimination on the basis of gender.
Project duration: December 2018 – November 2020 (24 months)
Food (in)Security in the Arctic: Contribution of Traditional and Local Food to promote Food Security with Particular Reference to the European High North
Objectives: to develop a network of scholars in order to promote new knowledge concerning the effect of climate change in the circumpolar Arctic on its vulnerable groups of population in regard to promoting overall food security as it applies to traditional food system as well as to the region’s population.
Project duration: 2017 → 2020
Others grants and funds:
DistARCTIC: Distance Teaching and Learning in the Arctic Communities
Project overall objective: to open new horizons on rural education, especially what kind of pedagogical practices could be used in online/distance teaching and learning to secure equal educational possibilities and high-quality education for all, regardless of their location.
ACCESS: Arctic Conference on Educational Sciences
Project overall objective: to strengthen the wide network of educational researchers in the circumpolar north, and to concentrate researcher community perspectives on UArctic, the Thematic Network on Teacher Education and Arctic educational issues.
MAMBA: A model based mapping of marine litter and microplastic in the Barents Sea
Project overall objective: to provide sampling and measurements of plastic and microplastic in the North-West river basin of the Northern Dvina river, including joint sample collection and analyzing of plastic and microplastic in the region.
Barents Sea Leadership Training on Marine Litter
Project objectives:
- Raising the level of knowledge, competence and awareness of Russian and Norwegian project participants from the Barents region on the topic of marine litter
- Stimulating action by discussing activities that could form part of future local and sub-regional development plans in the Barents Sea region, including contributions to the Arctic Council's work on the development of an Arctic Regional Action Plan on Marine Litter.
- Enhancing cooperation between the two countries in the field of environmental protection
Implementation period: 2019-2021
Coordination of local and tourist-related transport needs
Project objective:
- To exchange best practices of satisfying local and tourist transport needs: water transport case.
Implementation period: 2021.
OBRAZ: Education
Project objective:
Developing the creativity and potential of people with special needs through art and culture, expanding opportunities for their participation in cultural and social life.
Project implementation period: 2019-2021
Archeology and Cultural Geography in Coastal Arctic and Subarctic territories
Project objective: Cooperation of researchers from Russia and United Kingdom, experience exchange and development of a platform for joint research. Project implementation period: 2019Arctic Foods Innovation Cluster
The Arctic Foods Innovation Cluster pulls together relevant people in the Arctic foods value chain for a cluster-based approach to food production and regional economic development. A cluster-based approach to food innovation draws together Arctic food producers with governments, Arctic indigenous communities, universities, research centers, vocational training providers, and industry associations and young people.Online Joint degree bachelor programme : “Sustainable Service Management in the High North”
Project objectives: to develop an international degree programme that will educate graduates with an entrepreneurial, yet sustainable mind. More precisely this means to develop a joint, online Bachelor degree that fosters such development in the High North.Project period: 2018-2019
Raising awareness on climate change among young people of Russian Barents Sea regions
Project objective: to increase awareness on climate change among the society of Russia’s Barents Sea region, given its immense vulnerability towards climate change. The action will provide science based and up-to-date information on climate change for teachers, pupils, university students and interested youth in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Murmansk Oblast and Nenets Autonomous Oblast.
Project duration: 2019-2021
Development of think tank functions of the Northern Dimension Institute
Project duration: 2019-2021
Project objective: The NDI Think Tank Action is designed to enhance genuine regional cooperation in the Northern Dimension area through science diplomacy, capacity building and people-to-people contacts.
ASIAQ – The Arctic Science IntegrAtion Quest
Project objective: To realize jointly advance research and education for a sustainable Arctic of six universities from three continents and four countries (Russia, Japan, USA and Sweden).Project duration: 2018-2020
Interpretation of orally generated speech
Project objective: Cooperation in the field of creation the online packages and web-site for interpretation of orally generated speech from German to Russian language and further program location on Moodle-platfrom
Project duration: 2017-2020
Adapt Northern Heritage/Adapt northern cultural heritage to the environmental impacts of climate change and associated natural hazards through community engagement and informed conservation planning
Project objectives:
-To develop procedures for risks and vulnerabilities assessments and sustainable adaptation planning of historic places and to make the procedures accessible through online software;
-To produce a select adaptation action plans to demonstrate how the environmental impacts of climate change and associated natural hazards can be integrated into conservation planning;
-To create a network for stakeholders concerned with the conservation of northern cultural heritage in the context of a changing climate to contribute, engage, learn and network.
Project duration: 2017-2020
CLINF: Climate-change effects on the epidemiology of infectious diseases and the impacts on Northern societies
Project objectives:
- To strengthen societal preparedness for the threat of additional and new infectious diseases that can hit humans and animals.
Project duration: 2015-2020
Arctic Biomonitoring Laboratory
Direction of scientific research:
Development of methodology for monitoring, assessment, prediction and prevention of risks associated with the high level toxic polluting substances transfer via biological pathways. These substances can accumulate in the food chain and spread in Arctic ecosystems.
Project duration: 2017-2019
More about the sea. From North to North: port, navigation, transportation of goods, shipbuilding, seaweed production
Project objective:
- To promote knowledge of Russian and German northern territories
Project duration: 2017-2022
Supervision education in Russia
Project objective: Development of supervision system in Russia and education of assisting professions specialists
Project duration: 2011-2023
Aflatoun: Child Social and Financial Education
Project objectives:
- To ensure access to child-centered Social & Financial Education, testing of the course “Aflatoun: Child Social and Financial Education” (an open classroom, workshops, class hours),
- To adapt suggested educational and methodical materials to Russian standards, requirements.
Program TEMPUS:
Actions of Lifelong Learning Addressing Multicultural Education and Tolerance in Russia
Rendering support to the Russian higher education modernization, development of higher education institutions as long-life learning centers. The focus of the project is aimed at studying migration, intercultural communication and human rights, in order to raise the level of tolerance towards people of immigrant’s background and other minorities.
Achieving and Checking the Alignment Between Academic Programmes and Qualification Frameworks
The ALIGN project seeks to enhance the intelligibility, consistency and transferability of qualifications through development and implementation of mechanisms for HEis to achieve alignment with QFs (qualification frameworks) and for EQAs to check such alignment.