The Course for Sustainability is being implemented
by
Venice International University (VIU) and the
Regional
Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe
(REC), with the support of
Agroinnova and
Central
European University (CEU) and funding of the
Italian Ministry for the Environment Land and Sea
and BG
Group.
The Italian Ministry for the
Environment Land and Sea was
established in 1986. Within its
scope of competency lie
responsibilities related to:
sustainable development,
protection of territory,
pollution and industrial risks,
international protection of the
environment, appraisal of
environmental impact, nature
conservation, waste and cleanup,
and protection of seas and
inland waters. The Italian
Ministry for the Environment
Land and Sea is strongly
committed to promoting and
supporting international
partnership and cooperation
towards global sustainable
development.
www.minambiente.it
A leading player in the global
energy market, BG Group is a
growing business with operations
in more than 25 countries over
five continents. BG participates
in all aspects of the energy
sector, particularly natural gas
— the cleanest of the fossil
fuels — and has been investing
in Kazakhstan for over 15 years.
BG are joint operators of the
giant Karachaganak gas
condensate field in north-west
Kazakhstan, where they have a 40
year concession, and are also
shareholders in the Caspian
Pipeline Consortium (CPC).
www.bggroup.com
Venice International University (VIU) is an association
of ten universities (Boston College, USA; Duke University,
North Carolina, USA; Ludwig Maximilians Universität,
Munich, Germany; Tel Aviv University, Israel; Tilburg
University, The Netherlands; Tsinghua University, Beijing,
China; Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia, Venice,
Italy; Università Iuav di Venezia, Venice, Italy;
Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain; and
Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan), the Fondazione di
Venezia (Venice, Italy), the Italian Ministry for the Environment Land and Sea,
and Provincia di Venezia
(Venice, Italy).
The aim of this international centre, founded in 1995,
is to manage higher education and research centres on
the island of San Servolo in Venice, Italy. VIU pursues
its aim through the programming and promotion of undergraduate,
graduate and continuing education and support.
www.univiu.org
The Regional Environmental Center for
Central and Eastern Europe (REC) is a non-partisan,
non-advocacy, not-for-profit international organisation
with a mission to assist in solving environmental problems
in Central and Eastern Europe. The Center fulfils this
mission by encouraging cooperation among non-governmental
organisations, governments, businesses and other environmental
stakeholders, by supporting the free exchange of information
and by promoting public participation in environmental
decision making.
The REC was established in 1990 by the United States,
the European Commission and Hungary. Today, the REC
is legally based on a Charter signed by the governments
of 28 countries and the European Commission, and on
an International Agreement with the Government of Hungary.
The REC has its headquarters in Szentendre, Hungary
and country offices in each of its sixteen beneficiary
countries, which are: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary,
Latvia, Lithuania, FYR Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland,
Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Turkey.
The Italian Trust Fund was established in 2001 as a
targeted contribution of the Italian Ministry for the Environment Land and Sea
to the REC. It operates within
the framework of environmental improvement and cooperation
in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Its
activities are consistent with the REC’s mission
and complementary to other REC programmes — sharing
the same ambition to strive for a solution to environmental
problems afflicting this region.
www.rec.org
Agroinnova was established in
2002 at the University of Torino. As a centre of competence
for innovation in the agro-environmental field, it operates
in basic and applied research, teaching activities,
supply of services to firms, communications and technology
transfer to developing countries. It has several national
and international projects in collaboration with public
institutions and the private sector. The Centre has
extensive facilities including laboratories, plots for
agricultural research and greenhouses. It hosts two
nationally certified laboratories, one for testing agrochemical
efficacy, the second for diagnostics of plant pathogens.
The Italian Ministry for the Environment Land and Sea
funds 10 of the Centre’s projects. Other relevant
national grants include several MIUR and regional projects.
Agroinnova self-funds the activities of its two certified
laboratories and receives many grants from private companies.
Agroinnova participates as a partner in several EU
projects.
www.agrinnova.org
Central European University (CEU)
is an internationally recognised institution of post-graduate
education in social sciences and humanities. It serves
as an advanced centre of research and policy analysis
and facilitates academic dialogue while preparing its
graduates to serve as the region’s next generation
of leaders and scholars. CEU seeks to contribute to
the development of open societies in Central and Eastern
Europe and the former Soviet Union by promoting a system
of education in which ideas are creatively, critically,
and comparatively examined. However, it has also become
clear over the last decade that Central and Eastern
Europe and the former Soviet Union are not the only
parts of the world experiencing the development of more
open societies. In response to this spreading democratisation,
the university continues to focus on individuals and
organisations in the region while extending the CEU
Fellowship Program worldwide, with emphasis on students
from countries experiencing emerging democracies.
www.ceu.hu
The Regional Environmental Centre for Central Asia (CAREC)
is an independent, non-commercial and non-partisan
international organisation supporting environmental
efforts in the region. CAREC’s provides information
services, support for transboundary cooperation,
capacity building and environmental education, and
support for environmental conservation efforts by
countries, environmental organisations and the general
public. It supports a cross-sectoral, synergistic and
comprehensive approach to ecosystems management and
inter-industry programmes.
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