[eng] Environmental Management for Russia

Scientists from Freiburg, Germany, awarded grant of one million Euros for a project to improve higher education in Russia Freiburg, 12. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall the European Commission has supported the internationalisation of higher education and the improvement of teaching in its neighbour states, through cooperation projects with the so called Tempus programme. A project coordinated by the University of Freiburg, Germany, has now been awarded a grant of over 1 million Euros. In particular the crude oil-producing regions of Russia in Western Siberia und the highly industrialised regions of Altai and the South Urals are confronted by enormous ecological problems. Until now higher education in these areas concentrated on the necessary production techniques. Today deficits in teaching in Ecology and Environmental Management are becoming obvious. The University of Freiburg is coordinating an international consortium which includes Russian universities in the Altai region, in Novosibirsk, Omsk and Tyumen and also includes the C Koblenz-Landau and Birmingham are involved.