ПсковГУ EU governance of natural resources Events Lake Peipus, River Narva and their Watersheds: local issues and regional cooperation International seminar agenda

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Lake Peipus, River Narva and their Watersheds: local issues and regional cooperation

Two Facets of EU Governance of Natural Resources in the Baltic Region: Perspectives of Russia and the Eastern Neighbourhood Area

The workshop is co-organised by Pskov State University (Pskov, Russia), The State Committee of the Region of Pskov for Nature Resource Use and Environmental Protection (Pskov, Russia), Estonian University of Life Sciences (Tartu, Estonia)

The workshop is co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme Jean Monnet project 587697-EPP-1-2017-1-RU-EPPJMO-PROJECT «EU governance of natural resources: geopolitics, regions and sectors» / GRaSs)

WORKSHOP AGENDA

March 14, 2018:

- 10.00 – registration and welcome coffee

- 11.00-11.20 – opening, welcoming addresses, introduction

Anatoly Istomin, Pskov State University

Tatiana Kozina, Pskov Region State Committee on Natural Resource Management and Environmental Protection

Gennady Polotskiy, Directorate of the Rosprirodnadzor for the Pskov region

- 11.20-13.00 – governance context (20 min per talk):

• Elena Garanzha (Pskov Branch of Nevsko-Ladozhskoye Basin Administration, Pskov, RU)– Russia’s experience of international cooperation over the protection and sustainable use of transboundary waters with Belarus and Estonia
• Kalev Sepp, Helle Mäemets (Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, EE)– Institutional framework for the cooperation over water resources by Estonia and Russia
• Sonja Koeppel (by skype) (United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, Geneva, CH) – Institutional context of the Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes
• Svetlana Tunchik (Directorate of the Rosprirodnadzor for the Pskov region, Pskov, RU) - New Approaches to the Implementation of State Environmental Supervision in the Russian Federation
• Olga Vasilenko (Cross border cooperation center “Lake Peipsi Project, Pskov”, Pskov, RU) – Capacity and role of NGO sector in addressing transboundary water management issues – lessons from Pskov Region
• Olga Senova (Coalition Clean Baltic Workgroup on River Basin and Wastewater Management, St.-Petersburg, RU) – Ecosystem approach to sustainable management of river basins – lessons learned from transboundary basins (Neman, Daugava, Luga)

- 13.00-14.00 – Narva / Peipus – the environmental context (20 min per talk):

• Olga Zadonskaya (State Hydrological Institute, St.-Petersburg, RU) – Nutrient load to Chudsko-Pskovskoe (Peipsi) lake from Estonian and Russian side
• Helle Mäemets (Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, EE) – Eutrophication-driven spatial and temporal changes in macrophyte diversity in Lake Peipsi
• Tatiana Drozdenko (Pskov State University, Pskov, RU) – Monitoring of the water quality by phytoplankton in the delta of Velikaya river (Pskov Region)

- 14.00-14:50- lunch

- 14:50-18:00 (including a 30 min coffee break at 16.30) – sectors and people in the transboundary context

• Kalev Sepp, Henri Järv, Jaak Kliimask (Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, EE) – Nature conservation in remote rural area (Lake Peipsi watershed): a win-win situation?
• Margit Säre (Peipsi Center for Transboundary Cooperation, Tartu, EE) – Cross-border co-operation in environmental education and ecotourism development
• Jaak Kliimask (Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, EE) – Protected Piirissaare: the polygon of self-isolation
• Tatiana Mozhzhina (Pskov Region State Committee on Natural Resource Management and Environmental Protection, Pskov, RU) – Protection of the Peipsi lake ecosystem
• Marina Melnik (Pskov Branch of the State Research Institute for Lake and River Fisheries, Pskov, RU) – Lessons learned from participation in Estonia-Russia’s Commissions for Fisheries and for Water Protection (30 min talk)
• Dmitry Filippenko (Coalition Clean Baltic, Kaliningrad, RU) – What environmental education can do to address transboundary water quality issues
• Andrey Manakov (Pskov State University, Pskov, RU) – Seto in the context of transboundary nature resource management – view from Russia
• Aleksey Potemkin (Pskov regional ecological public movement, Pskov, RU) – Waste on coastal territories of the Peipsi lake: possible solutions

19.00 – dinner, Pivnoy Dom, Sovetskaya Naberezhnaya, 1/2

March 15, 2018:

9.30-13.30 (with a 30 min coffee break from 11.00):

• Anton Shkaruba (Erda RTE, Rijswijk, NL / Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, EE), Ruben Zondervan (Lund University, Lund, SE) – Presentation of the methodological approach to the development of an institutional framework for transboundary watershed governance
• Panel discussion: aims, objectives and success indicators for a perspective institutional framework for EE/RU transboundary water governance (chaired by Kalev Sepp, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, EE)
• Panel discussion: mechanisms and options for an action plans steering Russia and the EU / Estonia towards the development of the institutional framework (chaired by Ruben Zondervan, Lund University, Lund, SE)

- 13.30-14.30 - lunch

14.30-17.30 (with a 30 min coffee break starting at 16.00) – discussions of the GRASS publication strategy and points for the policy brief, and detailed planning of follow up papers

March 16, 2018: excursion to vulnerability hotspots and places of cultural heritage in the Region of Pskov.

GRASS - EU governance of natural resources: geopolitics, regions and sectors

-       Pskov State University, Pskov, Russia – the project coordinator

-       Erda RTE, Rijswijk, the Netherlands

-       Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

-       Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, Estonia

-       NGO Ekapraekt, Minsk, Belarus

-       RZ. Research. Management. Communication, Lund, Sweden