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Source: Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University –
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A three-day advanced training program, "Environmental Protection Regulation. Circular Economy," has concluded at the St. Petersburg Polytechnic University's Institute of Civil Engineering. The program was developed by the Center for Continuing Professional Programs at the St. Petersburg Polytechnic University Institute of Civil Engineering and the Efir Academy, part of the Rusnano Group.
Representatives from Rosprirodnadzor departments, leading testing centers in ecology and environmental protection, and faculty and students from the St. Petersburg Polytechnic University's Civil Engineering Institute participated in the intensive educational program. The Rusnano Group presented the Efir JSC technology bank.
At the opening of the program, Dmitry Tikhonov, Vice-Rector for Continuing and Pre-University Education at SPbPU, and Ivan Ozhgikhin, General Director of the Efir Academy, addressed the participants with welcoming remarks. Participants were also greeted by Svetlana Filatova, Director of the Efir Center (STC Pravo), Vladimir Chernyshev, Deputy Head of the Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resource Usage, and Mikhail Kozminykh, Head of the Northwestern Interregional Department of Rosprirodnadzor.
The course program covered key areas of modern environmental regulation: new legislative initiatives in environmental protection, carbon regulation and industrial environmental control, environmental management, and air and land risk assessment. The course included practical sessions during which participants developed a gas purification unit data sheet, examined an example of using life cycle assessment to optimize a product's carbon footprint, analyzed common errors in developing an environmental impact assessment program and report, and learned about the operation of polymer waste recycling units (using JSC Efir as an example).
Lectures and practical classes were given by representatives of the central office of Rosprirodnadzor, leading experts from federal executive bodies, expert practitioners from the Efir Center and the Efir Academy, as well as Professor Natalia Politaeva and Associate Professor Alexander Chusov from the Civil Engineering Institute.
On the third day of the training, Alexander Chusov and Natalia Politaeva spoke to the audience about assessment methodology, the significance and impact of environmental risks, air and water purification technologies, the economic justification for investments in eco-technologies, and the company's environmental policy. Particular attention was paid to a practical session dedicated to analyzing a case study of using life cycle assessment to optimize a product's carbon footprint. At the Civil Engineering Institute, the participants visited the industrial ecology laboratory, the water purification laboratory, and the environmental monitoring laboratory, where Natalia Politaeva, Alexander Chusov, as well as Maria Andrianova, Associate Professor of the Higher School of Hydraulic and Power Engineering, and Viktor Chechevichkin, Lead Engineer, presented the guests with modern equipment and methods for analyzing water environmental parameters.
The final stage of the program was the final testing, based on the results of which participants received certificates of advanced training.
"Today, effective environmental management is becoming key to the development of both individual companies and the country as a whole. Modern environmental management is not simply compliance with standards and regulations, but a systematic approach to environmental conservation, the rational use of resources, and the implementation of innovation," says Ivan Ozhgikhin, Head of Environmental Management at Rusnano Group.
"Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University implements a comprehensive approach to ecology and environmental protection: in addition to specialized training for specialists, we include environmental competence as a mandatory element in our educational programs for all students. For example, the Civil Engineering Institute is already implementing a program of specialized Rosprirodnadzor classes at St. Petersburg schools, and there are also student environmental associations. An important focus of our continuing professional education programs has become the involvement of industrial partners—this allows us to provide students with relevant knowledge and practical experience from leading industry experts," noted Dmitry Tikhonov, Vice-Rector for Continuing and Pre-University Education at SPbPU.
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