UrFU Will Host Sino-Russian ASRTU Online Forum

12:57, October 16, 2020

Researches from China and Russia will discuss ecological security

On October 21-22, Ural Federal University will host Sino-Russian ASRTU Forum: Ecology and Environmental Sciences in online mode. The Forum focuses on studying crucial aspects of ensuring ecological security, particularly in the Arctic region.

The Forum attracted about twenty ASRTU member universities from Russia and China, including Ural Federal University, Harbin Institute of Technology, Tianjin University, ITMO University and others.

“Sino-Russian ASRTU Forum: Ecology and Environmental Sciences is the third event of such level conducted at UrFU within the framework of ASRTU activities” – says UrFU First Deputy Vice-Rector for Research Vladimir Kruzhaev. – “Such events usually facilitate the development of scientific cooperation between Chinese and Russian technical universities, creation of new academic contacts and new topics for joint research. Unfortunately, this year we have to conduct the Forum in online mode, but the number of participants and presentations has increased rather than lessened. I am confident that the Forum will be productive and successful”.

The Forum will touch upon different aspects of biodiversity, industrial ecology, modern methods and approaches to monitoring environmental objects. Researchers will also discuss such relevant topics as ecological aspects of sustainable development of Russian Arctic regions and ecological education.

Altogether, there are about 90 reports submitted. The proceeding of the conference will be published and indexed in Scopus database.

Sino-Russian ASRTU Forum Ecology and Environmental Sciences will take place at UrFU for the first time but previously UrFU hosted several major ASRTU events such as ASRTU Summit and Sino-Russian ASRTU Conference Alternative Energy: Materials, Technologies, and Devices in 2018; IV Sino-Russian ASRTU Symposium on Advanced Materials and Processing Technology in 2016 and ASRTU TECH Winter school.

Ural Federal University is one of the leading universities in Russia founded in 1920. UrFU is located in Yekaterinburg, the capital of the Ural region, an economic, industrial, scientific and cultural center of Russia. The university is the project office of the Ural Interregional Research and Education Center "Advanced Industrial Technologies and Materials" designed for solving tasks of "Science" National Project.