The GEF Small Grants Programme

in Uzbekistan

Practical ecology course for universities - what do you think ???

As you may recall, PMGEF recently supported the initiative of the University of Urgench and the NGO KRASS to create and test a new subject "Applied Ecology" in the country's universities. If you remember, in the framework of the project to develop a curriculum, to develop all the methodological support of teachers, to implement this curriculum in 4 universities of the country - Urgench University, National University, Namangan Institute of Engineering and Economics and testing at the Karshi Institute of Engineering and Economics. All work on the development of the curriculum will be carried out by specialists of KRASS NGO together with the staff of the city of Urgench and 3 other universities of the country.

We are happy to share your thoughts on the "skeleton" of the curriculum for higher education.

- Download the "skeleton" of the developed curriculum

Public comment is very important to us because it defines the path we are on. If you have any suggestions, let’s give them now. You can send them to the e-mail address of the project team leader Inna Rudenko (irudenko@mail.ru) or leave them on our website or Facebook page at the bottom of this note. We would be very grateful for any comments.

We plan to receive comments during the month of November (up to the 25th), then summarize them and, if necessary, complete the working version of the curriculum, which will be discussed in a roundtable discussion at the end of November (approximately 30). For information, we attach a complete work plan of the project.

- project workplan

We are pleased to have the opportunity to talk about the practical ecology course being developed by our project team - KRASS NGO and Urgench State University - for use in the country's universities. Your opinion is very important to us.