The International Competence Centre for Mining Engineering Education under the Auspices of UNESCO:

  • Conducts international accreditation of specialists with the British Engineering Council, increasing the level of human resource capacity of companies, which directly affects the growth of their capitalization.
  • Provides educational courses and professional development programs for continuous learning and development of company employees.
  • Organizes major international scientific and industrial conferences such as the Russian-German Feedstock Forum and the Russo-British Raw Materials Dialogue
  • Offers participation in international programs accredited by IOM3 (London) to develop additional professional competencies for engineering students.
  • Offers participation in international student exchange programs (DAAD), double and triple diploma programs and international summer schools.
  • It organizes international scientific competitions and CASE championships for students and schoolchildren, which helps them with admission to prestigious universities of the country.
  • It allocates grants for various educational programs under the auspices of the UNESCO Center.

 

 

Areas of Work

Scientific and Innovative Research

  • Carrying out joint innovative research in priority scientific areas of the mineral sector development and elaboration of promising proposals and recommendations in the sphere of extraction, transportation and processing of natural resources.

  • Searching for environmentally safe green technologies: development of the mineral resource sector with due consideration for modern environmental requirements.

  • Creation of working groups and creative scientific teams from among leading experts, integration of advanced innovative developments and technologies.

  • Developing a system of grants to encourage scientific research and technological start-ups.
    Publication of specialized collections of articles in international publishing houses.

Supporting Universities and Centres

  • Creation of reference educational and scientific centers on the basis of leading universities, resource and energy companies;

  • Search, analysis and creation of a single bank to promote the best educational and scientific practices in the international arena, primarily in Africa, Asia, Latin America, India and China;

  • Acting as a laboratory of ideas and innovations in the field of science and engineering education system.

International Events

Holding large and socially significant international events: forums, dialogues, conferences, lectures and round tables in order to popularize natural sciences and mining education, attract talented young people, strengthen international and regional cooperation and coordination of joint work in the field of mineral resources complex.

Professional Registration of Engineers and Teachers

  • Creation of a unified international system for evaluating the competences of mineral resource sector educators and teachers.

  • Creation of a unified system of international professional attestation of mineral sector specialists on the basis of already existing world systems of engineers' competence evaluation.

Common Educational Environment

  • Creating conditions for global mobility of students, postgraduates and faculty of the world's universities and expanding inter-university cooperation.

  • Development of joint educational programs using modern teaching methods, including distance learning, online courses, summer and winter schools, scientific internships and traineeships.

     

History of the Centre's Creation

The history of the UNESCO Competence Centre begins in 2012, when the World Forum of Resource Universities was created on the initiative of the Saint Petersburg Mining University and the Freiberg Mining Academy. The participants of the Forum session in Freiberg (Germany), Trondheim (Norway), Leoben (Austria) and Akita (Japan) developed proposals for UNESCO to unite the world's leading universities offering degrees in mining and mineral resource engineering in order to solve global issues of the world economy, training and improving the safety and efficiency of the use of raw materials.

On December 13, Saint Petersburg Mining University hosted meetings of the Third Russian Congress of UNESCO Chairs and a high-level Discussion Panel of the 4th meeting of the Scientific Advisory Board under the UN Secretary General, which was attended by UNESCO Director General, Irina Bokova. Within the framework of the event, a Communiqué was signed on the creation of an International Competence Centre in Mining Engineering Education.

On September 22, the concept of the Centre proposed by Saint Petersburg Mining University was supported by delegates of the First International Board of Rectors of Universities offering degrees in mining and mineral resource engineering, which was attended by more than 400 representatives from more than 50 countries.

  • On September 22, the II International Board of Rectors of Universities offering degrees in mining and mineral resource engineering was held, at which the composition of the international supervisory board was formed.
  • The decision to establish the Center was supported at the meeting of the 39th UNESCO General Conference.
  • The Russian Government signed the Order #2783-r for the signing of an agreement with UNESCO on the establishment of the Centre. The Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation was designated as the coordinator for the work of the Centre from the Government of the Russian Federation.
  • Alexander V. Novak, Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation, and Audrey Azoulay, Director General of UNESCO, signed the Agreement between the Government of the Russian Federation and UNESCO. They signed an Agreement between the Government of the Russian Federation and UNESCO on the establishment of the International Competence Centre in Mining Engineering Education under the auspices of UNESCO, located in St. Petersburg, Russian Federation.
  • The agreement was signed at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris (France) and was ratified by the President of the Russian Federation on October 30, 2018.
  • On January 14, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation received the official notification of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization about the entry into force of the Agreement between the Government of the Russian Federation and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization on the establishment of the "International Centre of Competence in Mining Engineering Education in Saint Petersburg (Russian Federation) under the auspices of UNESCO".
  • The first joint meeting of the Centre's Supervisory Board and Governing Board was held on February 19 2019.
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