{"id":10364,"date":"2022-12-20T15:45:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T12:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/?p=10364"},"modified":"2023-01-16T15:10:20","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T12:10:20","slug":"the-team-of-lake-baikal-foundation-delivered-a-course-water-resources-management-and-leadership-at-a-university-","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/the-team-of-lake-baikal-foundation-delivered-a-course-water-resources-management-and-leadership-at-a-university-\/","title":{"rendered":"The team of Lake Baikal Foundation delivered a course \u201cWater Resources Management and Leadership\u201d at a university"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The last classes of the course \u201cWater Resources Management and Leadership\u201d were held today. This course is one of the three courses within the educational track on water for 3rd year bachelor students of the program \u201cChange Management\u201d of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA). On classes students learned about leadership in the water sector at different levels: Governmental, business, NGOs and youth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The course was dynamic and practical. <strong>During 14 classes students<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>learned <\/strong>about the ESG concept, green governance, fundraising, the Netherlands&#8217; action plan to adaptation to climate change;<\/li><li><strong>got acquainted<\/strong> with the work of international and national bodies and organizations from UNEP and the World Water Council to the Federal Agency for Subsoil Use of Russia and the Water of Russia project;<\/li><li><strong>developed <\/strong>their own environmental project in the field of water resources management;<\/li><li>compared the water strategy of Russia with the water strategies of Great Britain and the USA;<\/li><li><strong>discussed<\/strong> Russia&#8217;s water strategy for the next period, trade of water-intensive products, issues of gender equality in water use;<\/li><li><strong>worked on<\/strong> the creation of a youth organization aimed at solving the problems of the water sector,<\/li><li><strong>played <\/strong>the climate game;<\/li><li><strong>learned<\/strong> how to calculate the water footprint of a business, negotiate, present project ideas and much more.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The course was taught by the <strong>staff of the Lake Baikal Foundation<\/strong> \u2014 young professionals and leaders of change:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/about-the-foundation\/staff\/olga-amelkina\/\"><strong>Olga Amelkina<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 specialist in the field of sustainable development, leader of the project on the introduction of separate collection of food waste, member of the working group on circular economy of a youth organization;<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/about-the-foundation\/staff\/ekaterina-terenteva\/\"><strong>Ekaterina Terenteva<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 head of projects, Youth Ambassador of the Sustainable development goal (SDG) 12 \u201cResponsible Consumption and Production\u201d;<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/about-the-foundation\/staff\/evgeniya-elkina\/\"><strong>Evgeniya Elkina<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 specialist in environmental law and climate;<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/about-the-foundation\/staff\/vasilina-chernysheva\/\"><strong>Vasilina Chernysheva<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 an impact assessment specialist for humanitarian aid and sustainable development projects.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Invited experts<\/strong> also participated in the course:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Jean Louis Oliver<\/strong> \u2013 an expert in the field of water management and has headed the French Academy of Water for over 15 years;<\/li><li><strong>Giuseppe Musumeci<\/strong> \u2013 the UNESCO Chair in Intercultural Studies with the focus on water (India),<\/li><li><strong>Daria Grigoryeva<\/strong> \u2013 Head of Sustainability at the Russian gold mining company Polyus,<\/li><li><strong>Petr Vesnovskiy<\/strong> \u2013 a Master in Water Policy and Water Management (Oxford), Youth Ambassador of the SDG 6 \u201cClean Water and Sanitation\u201d, Member of the European Youth Parliament for Water.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em>In January, students will have an exam. We wish them good luck!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This course is one of the three courses within the educational track on water for 3rd year bachelor students of the program \u201cChange Management\u201d at RANEPA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10135,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10364\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=10364"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10364\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10367,"href":"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10364\/revisions\/10367\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10135\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=10364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=10364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=10364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}