Ukraine

UNESCO Chair in Environmentally Clean Technologies (409), established in 2000 at The Kharkiv National Automobile and Highway University (Ukraine)

 

Fields / Disciplines Environment protection; clean technologies; automobile and road; engineering. Objectives The Chair shall develop new approaches in the field of environmentally clean technologies, protect the environment against anthropogenic impacts and develop an integrated methodology for human ecology as an interdisciplinary subject involving ideas and concepts of ecology, sociology, ethics, hygiene, psychology and pedagogy. The Chair will serve in the establishment of an international network on issues related to environmental safety, environmentally clean and resource-saving technologies, and facilitate linkages among higher education institutions in the region for the implementation of student, postgraduate and lecture exchange programmes. Host Institution Kharkiv State Technical University for Automobile and Road Engineering. UNESCO Sector/Field Office responsible for the Chair/Network Natural Sciences, UNESCO Venice Office