mponents of regional environment (vegetation, wildlife, soils, specific of hydrographic network etc);
Participants of the summer school gain experience:
- identification of main parameters and components of environment;
- application of state-of-the-environment assessment methods.
Professorsand teachers of the Medicine and Biology Faculty and the Faculty of Geography, Geo-Ecology and Tourismknown in the field of ecology, environmental protection and nature management will participate in the Summer School. The program of the Summer School includes lectures and laboratory classes covering the following blocks: "Ecological condition of the chernozems of Russian Plain", "Natural conditions of the Central Black Soil Region", "Bioresources, Biodiversity, and Methods of Biodiversity Conservation", "Special Protected Natural Areas and Ecotourism", " Anthropogenic environmental impacts assessment ", "Methods of molecular biology and genetics in environmental monitoring", "General terminology and concepts of ecology in Russian and English” The working languages of the School are English and German. Lectures and laboratory classes presuppose interactive training with modern electronic educational technologies. In the course of laboratory sessions, the participants of the summer school will have an opportunity to learn and apply methods of studying the current state of soils, ecological and hydrochemical properties of water, methods of bio-diagnostics of plants and animals of Russian Plain. The obtained theoretical knowledge will be supplemented by fieldwork and visiting the most significant protected areas and natural objects. The participants will have an opportunity to study both natural and natural-anthropogenic landscapes, characteristic of the Plain of Russia as a whole, and their individual components in the natural state at the territory of Voronezh Nature Reserve n.a. V.M. Peskov, Galichya Gora Reserve, Khopersky Reserve, Nature Preserve Kamennaya Steppe, Divnogorye Nature Reserve archeological reserve, Kostenki Archaeological Museum-Reserve.