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NNSUACE Awards UNU-EHS Director Prof. Dr. Janos J. Bogardi an Honorary Doctorate

On the occasion of the 10th Anniversary of the UNESCO Chair the Nizhny Novgorod State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering (NNSUACE) awarded the Director of UNU-EHS Prof. Dr. Janos Bogardi an honorary doctorate. The celebration has been visited by the Governor of the Nizhny Novgorod Region Valeriy Pavlinovich Shantsev, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Federal Republic of Germany Walter Jurgen Schmidt, and many foreign participants of the symposium and invited guests from Germany, the Netherlands, USA, and other countries.

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UNU-EHS operates at the Nizhny Novgorod State University for Architecture and Civil Engineering in the Russian Federation a Cooperation Unit, which occupies with vulnerability assessment of urban communities to floods and development of a local disaster atlas.