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UNESCO Chair at NNGASU Celebrates 10 Year Anniversary

The United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) is pleased to recognize ten years of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Chair at Nizhny Novgorod State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering (NNGASU). UNU-EHS Director Janos Borgadi travelled to the Russian campus in order to extend his congratulations to the program that is closely linked with the mission of UNU-EHS.

The primary activities of the UNESCO Chair at NNGASU are to work with the issues of environmental sustainability, particularly the preservation of the Volga river basin under the federal programme “The Volga Revival.” Since 2000, under the implementation and management of Dr. Borgadi, former head of the Division of Water Sciences for UNESCO, the UNESCO Chair at NNGASU has been working on “The Volga Vision” project that aims to develop the Volga basin through the year 2030.

In 2005, the UNU-EHS, now under the direction of Dr. Borgadi, opened a cooperation unit on the campus of NNGASU with the purpose of developing workshops and trainings that can reduce social vulnerability and maintain sustainable development in the Volga-Caspian basin. One such example of this agreement has been the CABRI Volga project, which called on an international community to facilitate, assist, and organize research about environmental risk management in large river basins in the EU, Russia and the Newly Independent States.

In conjunction with the ten year anniversary of UNESCO Chair at NNGASU comes the publication of Environmentally safe, sustainable development of the Volga River basin. The book discusses the basic aspects of the international scientific network of the UNESCO Chair at NNGASU for the past decade and explains the results of projects within the areas of environmental protection, water resource management, the development of a sustainable environment, and the restoration of the cultural and historical heritage in the Volga river basin.

Please click here to access the UNESCO 10 years at NNGASU report written in Russian. (PDF format; 6MB)