The project covers not only protected areas in Karelia (Kizhi Open Air Museum area, Vodlozersky National Park), but also two Finnish conservation areas – Rokua Geopark in Oulu region, and two parks of the North Karelia Biosphere Reserve. The data produced by the project will be used to work out guidelines on remediating these areas. They will be in the form of scientific papers structured in line with the DPSIR framework (drivers, pressures, state, impact, and responses). The DPSIR framework was designed by the European Environmental Protection Agency and commended for studying anthropogenic pressure. In addition to the papers, workshops will be organized for people living in and around the natural heritage sites. North-Centre’s Director Alexandra Smirnova announced that people will be graphically introduced to the benefits of waste separation and to the “zero-waste” concept.
The project is also supposed to help with arranging the infrastructure for waste separation. Waste collection points will be built in villages around Kizhi Island, and the Vodlozersky National Park has completed setting up the premises for waste compaction and storage. Also, stations for waste containers and a composter will be organized in the Kuganavolok Village, Pudozhsky District before the end of this year.
March 6, 2020
The head of the Petrozavodsk Office of the Consulate General of Finland in St. Petersburg Mr. Johannes Puukki paid a visit to KarRC RAS on March 5th. During the working meeting, KarRC RAS President Olga Bakhmet told the guest about the Centre’s promising research areas and shared the experience of implementing international projects funded by cross-border cooperation programmes.
During this visit, Mr. Puukki also toured two exhibits operating at KarRC RAS premises. His guide to the Abnormal Wood Collection was Forest Research Institute’s Secretary for Science Nadezhda Nikolaeva, and the «Polar Night. Life and Light in the Dead of Night» exhibition, based on an international expedition to Svalbald waters, offered an immersion into the exciting Arctic environment. The tour of the exhibition was guided by the Head of the Institute of Biology Laboratory of Ecological Biochemistry Svetlana Murzina.
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March 23, 2020
The international consortium involving a group of scientists from KarRC RAS and the University of Oulu (Finland), implementing the project SUPER, which targets the conservation of UNESCO cultural and natural heritage sites, is working out guidelines for remediation of unauthorized waste dumps. SUPER project is implemented within the ENI Karelia Cross-border Cooperation Programme.
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November 29, 2024
Prospects for regional scientific cooperation within the BRICS Green Agenda framework were presented by Olga Bakhmet, Corresponding Academician, KarRC RAS Director General, at the International Conference “Greater Eurasia: national and civilizational aspects of development and cooperation”, which is taking place in Moscow on November 27-29.
November 29, 2024
On November 17-23, a delegation representing several units of the Karelian Research Center RAS visited scientific organizations of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Nanjing and Beijing. Together with Chinese colleagues, the scientists discussed topics for joint research and agreed to prepare applications for projects on the study of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Formal cooperation agreements are to be prepared with the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research and the Tibetan Plateau Research Institute CAS.
November 27, 2024
Regional cooperation of the BRICS countries in the sphere of ecology and nature management, as well as the results of a study of the environmental wellbeing of Arctic territories of European Russia were discussed at the Karelian Research Center RAS at the workshop “Integrated Development of Arctic Territories: Expert Opinion”. The event was organized on November 25 by the Department for Multidisciplinary Research KarRC RAS.