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KarRC RAS has held two training workshops for teachers from Petrozavodsk participating in the international project “Education for sustainable water use” (Karelia CBC Programme)

KarRC RAS started working within the international project “SEMPRE – Accelerators for Service Co-creation”.
The project is implemented within the Interreg Baltic Sea Region Programme. KarRC RAS joined the consortium of partners from Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia in the fall of 2019.

KarRC RAS has organized the international roundtable “Republic of Karelia: experience of fund-raising and interactions with foreign partners – science, education, business, culture, environment” on October 28th, within the Strategic Planning Leaders Forum (Forum Strategov 2019) in St. Petersburg.

On October 2, 2019 KarRC RAS received a delegation of the Finnish side of the Working Group on Social Sciences under the Finnish-Russian Commission for Scientific and Technological Cooperation.

On September 9-11, 2019 the workshop “Invasive alien species and data collaboration” within the international project “Collaborative Data and Information Exchange Network for Managing Invasive Alien Species - DIAS” took place in Petrozavodsk.

On July 3-4, 2019 a working meeting on the project “DIAS - Collaborative Data and Information Exchange Network for Managing Invasive Alien Species” took place in the Värtsilä Village.
The meeting was gathered to discuss the project progress and upcoming activities. In particular, the participants considered the plant and animal species lists to be posted on the website dedicated to invasive species, which is being developed on KarRC RAS web portal within this international project.

At the beginning of June, reconnaissance expeditions to Vodlozersky National Park and Kizhi Island were implemented by a joint team of researchers from the Forest Research Institute and Northern Water Problems Institute of KarRC RAS and the University of Oulu within SUPER (Sustainability under pressure) project of the Karelia CBC Programe.

On June 5, 2019 KarRC RAS staff participating the project “DIAS - Collaborative Data and Information Exchange Network for Managing Invasive Alien Species ” under ENI Karelia CBC Programme took part in the EcoKizhi environmental education event organized by the Kizhi Open Air Museum in the framework of the World Environment Day.