SPbPU International Research and Education Centre

From 2014, for ten years, Dr Startsev served concurrently as Director of the International Research and Education Centre within Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University. In publications of 2014–2020 the centre is named the International Centre for the Promotion of the Implementation of UNIDO Programmes and Projects at the St. Petersburg Polytechnic University.

The centre's work covered the development of advanced Russian environmental technologies, research and development, including for SUE Vodokanal of St. Petersburg, cooperation with Russian scientists and specialists, and public science outreach.

Tests of the Mustang pilot hydrowave installation at Vodokanal's Central Aeration Station (Bely Island), with TERUS-MEPhI, a company based at the Polytechnic Technopark (more).

22 September: the paper “Life safety in the context of the civilization development” at a research seminar of the University of Oslo's Representative Office in Saint Petersburg.

14 April: the paper “Technosphere-Biosphere Interactions: Ideas to Improve a Broken Balance” at SPbPU.

4 July: the public lecture “The Balance between the Biosphere and the Technosphere Is Broken. How Do We Live On?” for students of the St. Petersburg State Institute of Technology during their SPbPU practical training.

31 October: the paper “From Environmental Education to the Worldview of a New Era” at a conference on environmental education in Saint Petersburg.