International Expert Work and Training

In spring 2000, as a national expert: in Geneva, the second meeting of the UNEP expert group on a framework national action plan for persistent toxic substances; in Trieste, at the UNIDO International Centre for Science and High Technology, a meeting on clean technologies for reducing persistent organic pollutants, where he reported on POPs in the Baltic region of Russia; in Bern, the fifth meeting of UNIDO national cleaner production centres; in Vienna, a meeting reviewing the Framework Programme of Cooperation between UNIDO and Russia.

18 September 2006, Brussels: meeting of the international working group on Chemical Leasing, where the cleaner production centres of Egypt, Mexico and Russia (Saint Petersburg) presented the results of their case studies.

The Centre's presentation in Bahrain, “From Gulf to Gulf” (nanotechnology for water purification).

4–5 March 2008, UNIDO headquarters, Vienna: presentation of Chemical Leasing experience in Russia.

19–23 October 2009, Lucerne: network meeting of the global UNIDO–UNEP network on Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production (RECP), with a report on Russia's experience.

June 2010, Colombo: meeting of the centres taking part in the UNIDO Global Chemical Leasing Programme, with his presentation “Chemical Leasing project: experience and future in Russia”. 4–5 October 2010, Vienna: regional meeting of the cleaner production centres of Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

Nairobi: the Second Global Network Conference on Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production (RECP-2011), organized by UNEP and UNIDO. The same year the Centre prepared a pilot project for the industrial region of Zhezkazgan (Kazakhstan) under the UNIDO programme for the Eurasian Economic Community.

10–12 April 2013, Vienna: inaugural meeting of the RECPnet regional chapter for Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia. 3 September 2013, Montreux: expert meeting of the UNIDO and UNEP programmes on the sound management of chemicals, where the Centre presented a Chemical Leasing model for purifying agricultural wastewater of pesticides.

ArmCTCN project (climate technology transfer, Armenia): presentation on diagnosing and forecasting climate and hydrological emergencies with GIMS technology.

Two engineers from the Centre trained at the UNIDO International Centre for Science and High Technology in Trieste, modelling the production of synthetic fuels from biomass and electroplating wastewater discharges.

On 23–25 April 2007 the Centre hosted in Saint Petersburg the ICS-UNIDO international workshop “Supporting tools for Eastern and Central European NCPCs”, on process simulation and optimization, pollutant release and transfer registers and geographic information systems. Representatives of cleaner production centres from Armenia, Austria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Macedonia, Montenegro, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia and Uzbekistan took part; UNIDO experts spoke, among other topics, on the Global Chemical Leasing Programme.