1. Arctic and Antarctic Scientific and Research Institute Sergey Balyasnikov Alexey Platonov & Russian State Hydrometeorological University St. Petersburg, Russia Anatoly Bogush Denis Migulin Maria Mamaeva POLAR The Sixth Eumetcal international workshop, 30 Nov 2010 VIRTUAL UNIVERSITY

2. RSHU AASRI From what we have started (IPY and MSc) PVU Hopes and perspectives The Sixth Eumetcal international workshop, 30 Nov 2010 CONTENT

3. 1)Since 1930 is the leading university in meteorology, hydrology, oceanography, ecology, economics – provider BSc, MSc, PhD, Doctor degrees (80 years!) 2) WMO RTC (university component in the RF) 3)About 350 staff (lecturers and researchers) 4)More than 4500 students (incl. 350 from 40 countries) 5)In 2010 the leading university of the RF (more than 50 scientific project of the Federal Programmes in climate change, management, waste treatment and utilization, physics of atmosphere and hydrosphere, applied ecology) The Sixth Eumetcal international workshop, 30 Nov 2010 RSHU is

4. 1)S&R, belongs to the Roshydromet 2)Since 1920 is the oldest and the largest Russian research institution in the field of comprehensive studies of the Polar Regions 3)Supervision PhD and Doctoral research, collecting the data The Sixth Eumetcal international workshop, 30 Nov 2010 AASRI is

5. 17 Scientific Departments and Laboratories, Center of Ice and Hydrometeorological Information, World Data Center-B on sea ice, Russian Antarctic Expedition, Scientific research and experimental base: the station in the Arctic and Antarctic, "Ladozhskaya" and "Gorkovskaya" Stations (near St.Petersburg), research vessels including the unique icebreaker "Academic Fedorov", specific ice tank, experimental producing complex for design and production of research devices "Academic Fedorov" The Sixth Eumetcal international workshop, 30 Nov 2010 AASRI has

6. complex development of basic scientific knowledge about the processes in the A&A (ice cover, ocean, island water, river estuaries, atmosphere, upper atmosphere, ionosphere) and their interactions; collection, analysis and distribution of the data on conditions of the environment incl. antropogenic impact, climate changes etc; hydro-meteorological, hydrophysical and ecological provision of activities of the RFin Polar regions including works on Arctic shelves; complex scientific research in the A&A using research vessels, aircraft, polar stations and other available facilities; training of hight-skilled scientific staff. The Sixth Eumetcal international workshop, 30 Nov 2010 AASRI

7. The Sixth Eumetcal international workshop, 30 Nov 2010 AASRI and RSHU Training and scientific centre “Polar university” Joint MSc programme “Polar Hydro-Meteorology” There are 3 course: «Polar Oceanography», «Climate of Polar Regions» и «Sea Ice», and supervision of the graduation thesis and obligatory training/probation period (ppt. and audio-visual materials, on-line materials) Methodical materials contains such info as: detailed topics for theoretical and practical parts of each course (incl. aims and learning outcomes) students working load expressed in ac. hours list of references, and detailed statement about what student must know, able to do, demonstrate and understand after completion of each course

8. The Sixth Eumetcal international workshop, 30 Nov 2010 AASRI and RSHU within the frames of the International Polar Year and upon a decision of Roshydromet launched new joint project > is the scientific and education portal oriented on outreach activities in the field of environmental problems of high latitudes Target groups are: students of SSs and HEIs, scientists and researchers in the field of Polar Regions and population at large

9. The portal has a set of training flash modules and lessons developed together with the leading scientists-polar explorers which contains results of scientific researches and interesting facts Amount of Russian modules constantly increases Final aim is structured specialized MSc programme …..Problems related….. The Sixth Eumetcal international workshop, 30 Nov 2010 EDUCATIONAL SECTION

10. The Sixth Eumetcal international workshop, 30 Nov 2010 INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION Cooperation with the COMET giving possibility of translation and adaptation of teaching materials on polar latitudes from English to Russian is also considered to be effective and promising

11. MoU between RSHU and Eumetnet -is going to be signed -would contribute a lot to further development of the project (staff expertise, individual course elements on a case-by-case basis) The Sixth Eumetcal international workshop, 30 Nov 2010 INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION

12. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!!! www.rshu.ru www.aari.nw.ru Contacts at RSHU: Tel/fax: +7 812 444 56 36 bogush@rshu.ru mamaeva@rshu.ru migulin@rshu.ru at AASRI: alexplat@aari.ru