RCE Nizhny Novgorod-2014

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1. Project Title: 
Sustainable Thinking: Nizhny Novgorod Training Experience on the Platform of Cognitive Modeling
2. Thematic area/s addressed by the project
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3. Project partner contact information : 
Organization: 
Nizhny Novgorod Institute of Management, branch of Presidential Academy of National Economics and Public Administration
Role: 
main coordinator
Main Contact: 
Prof. Dr. Andrey Dakhin
5. Project description
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The training program provides solving of the “Education for sustainable development” Decade’s tasks. Training rests on the approach, that sustainable practice of producing of “green bags”, “green pencils”, “green houses” and so on sustainable things are caused by means of special attitudes of consciousness and culture of thinking.


6. Project status
On Going
Description: 
The training schedule includes three main folders with different levels of practical tasks.
On the first (elementary level) students work with the fully completed model. It demands to create optimal scenarios of activation of separate factors for getting the sustainable development effect for the environmental system in whole.
On the second (free user's level) students also work with the completed model. But now it demands a) to rethink and to correct main interactions between factors according with the own student's understanding and experience, and b) to create optimal scenarios of activation of separate factors for getting the sustainable development effect for the environmental system in whole.
On the third (master degree level) students work with prtly comleted model. This level demands a) to change or correct the list of factors, to give their definitions and describe them, b) to rethink and to correct main interactions between factors according with the own student's understanding and experience, and b) to create optimal scenarios of activation of separate factors for getting the sustainable development effect for the environmental system in whole.
Anyone folder completed with handbook and equipped by certificated software with usable interface.
On the elementary level it is 12-hours training.
On the free user's level it is 24-hours training.
On the master degree it is 32-hours training.
8. Tagging
Region: 
Europe