UNESCO Chair «Environmental Sciences and Management» was established on June 1, 1994 (order № 1-ю dated September 6, 1994) by the order of Lutsko A.M., Rector of the International College of Radioecology according to UNESCO contract №105.350. dated December 31, 1993. (order)
In March, 2016, it was signed a new agreement with UNESCO on the UNESCO chair due to the incorporation in BSU (letter of Mr. Wells Chief, Section of Higher Education UNESCO 7, Place de Fontenoy 75352 Paris 07 France)
Head of UNESCO chair – Germenchuk Maria G., Deputy Director for Science, PhD in Technical Sciences, Associate Professor.
en.unesco.org/sites/default/files/list-unesco-chairs.pdf
The basic activity of the UNESCO chair is to participate in the implementation of the international program UNITWUIN/UNESCO chair (“University twinning”):
- facilitate internship abroad;
- cooperation between professors, scientists and administrations of higher education institutions from different regions of the world using remote learning networks as well;
- improve educational process based on experience of foreign countries with developed traditions of specialist training in environmental protection;
- improve scientific research work through active participation of teachers and students in international scientific projects;
- invite foreign teachers and scientists to take part in the educational process and scientific work of ISEI BSU;
- prepare and publish scientific papers jointly with foreign partners;
- organize and participate in international congresses, conferences, symposiums, colloquiums.
Basic activity areas
Educational projects:
- Baltic University Programme
- TEMPUS CD_JEP-27177-2006 (BY) «Training course in ecology for Belarusian universities» (2006-2009);
- TEMPUS 2/13/000660 «Human safety (environment, product quality, healthcare and society) in areas contaminated with radionuclides» (2013-2016);
Cooperation in Science
Within the agreements on scientific creative cooperation, scholarship and grants for students to participate in the international scientific research projects:
- Students used skills and results obtained during internships to do their term papers, graduation, master and PhD theses.
UNESCO projects
- «Environmental ethics in the system of bioethical education in the Republic of Belarus» 2008-2009.
- UNESCO «Education without borders» Krakow (Poland) 2011
- «Global bioethics in the context of youth education: hold a seminar and conference» within the Participation Program for 2014 – 2015.
- National school-lab in bioethics for schoolchildren – tool to implement the agenda 2030 in the Republic of Belarus, 2019.
- Project № 2240116044 «School in environmental education to implement sustainable development goals in the Republic of Belarus» funded by UNESCO within the Participation Program for 2022 – 2023.