Green economy and energetics

12:21, November 8, 2013

Leading universities of the Middle Ural and Kazakhstan will build the “Green bridge through generations”

Research conference “Green bridge through generations – vector of sustainable development of XXI century” co-organized by Ural Federal University and Al-Farabi Kazakh National University will be held within the frames of the Forum of Interregional Collaboration of Russia and Kazakhstan.

The conference will be held on Monday, 11 November, in the University supervisory board hall on 19 Mira street at 10:00.  

The priority subjects of the meeting of university representatives are the strategies of global energy and ecological development in the XXI century. The main goal of the conference is to involve the youth and the representatives of scientific and academic communities in the process of promoting the initiatives of the global energy and ecological strategy of sustainable development in the XXI century, a partnership programme “Green bridge”.

The project mobilizes efforts of the youth on practical implementation of the initiatives on sustainable development and preparation for the global exhibition “Expo-2017” in Astana.

Universities’ rectors Victor Koksharov and Galimkair Mutanov will make the opening speeches. The conference speakers are: Nikolay Danilov, professor of UrFU Ural Power Enginering Institute; Vladimir Bolshakov, Head of Department of Ecology at UrFU Institute of Natural Sciences, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Sergey Sheklein, Head of Department of Nuclear Energy Engineering at UrFU, honored power engineer of the Russian  Federation; Krimzhan Shakirov, Dean of the Faculty of International Relations at Al-Farabi KaZNU; Daulet Baideldinov, Dean of the Faculty of Law at Al-Farabi KaZNU, and other renowned experts.

One of the main discussion subjects will be the establishment of a regional center “Eurasia-G Global” where the researchers of UrFU and KazNU will carry out joint research, discuss proposal within the frames of the international project G-Global for the Astana Economic Forum, the World Anti-Crisis Conference and G20.

“Green bridge” initiative has been approved by the UN European Economic Commission and UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific.

Organizers plan to find the optimal solutions for the transfer to “green economy” and solutions to the global problems of food and clear water shortages, environmental pollution and urban congestion, increase in emission of greenhouse gases, and consequences of climate changes and regional conflicts.

The day before, on November 10, Kazakh students of Ural Federal University will have a chance to meet the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan within the frames of the Forum with the participation of the leaders of two countries. The meeting of Kazakh students with Nursultan Nazarbayev will be held at the joint booth of Ural Federal University and Al-Farabi Kazakh National University.  

Ural students prepared 9 exhibits including the software for TV studios, mobile fire suppression system with twin-cylinder modification, system of transport monitoring, nanocrystal infrared cables, robot device for window cleaning and walls of high-rise buildings and software complex for 3-D scanning.