Volga State University Of Technology

Russia's Leading University in Rational Nature Management

Abstract

Volga State University of Technology was established in 1932. It’s Russia's leading university in areas of: predicting the use and protection of natural resources in order to prevent the negative effects, and methods of evaluation of the biological productivity of forest plantations using remote sensing data, the development of new energy-saving technologies and equipment for harvesting and processing of timber and non-timber forest resources; aerobic , anaerobic and vermitechnological organic waste, use only renewable resources, the creation of new technological installations for production and purification of biogas, the creation of modern technological solutions for greenhouses with autonomous energy supply based on local renewable energy, the creation of device-analytical systems for the study and modeling of membrane contactor and gas separation membrane-sorption processes in relation to the processes of organic waste and produce biogas fuel, new technologies of organic waste and non-fertilizer in green building, new technologies reclamation of disturbed areas, reforestation, creation of objects in areas of intensive logging and taken out of use of agricultural land under the Kyoto Protocol. The strategic development program of the University received funding of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation. To improve the efficiency of research in 2001, the University established the Center for collective use "Ecology, biotechnology, and the processes of generating clean energy" with unique equipment, which is funded under the Federal Target Program "Research and development on priority directions of scientific-technological complex of Russia in 2007-2013 ". To concentrate educational resources for the training of skilled workers , vocational training specialists, specialists with higher education in the forestry sector at the university was established resource center of professional education, funded by the Federal Program of Education Development for 2011-2015. The main focus is on the development of innovation infrastructure in the University of the , favorable conditions for the development of small innovative companies. In 2011, the University has won the competition for funding under the decree of the Government of the Russian Federation № 219 "On state support of innovation infrastructure in the federal educational institutions of higher education." The university holds a lot of projects funded under the Federal Target Program "Scientific and scientific-pedagogical personnel of innovative Russia in 2009-2013", including a project to develop a high school student self-management.