Associate Professor Dmitry Karamov nominated for the UNESCO-Japan Prize on Education for Sustainable Development
Dmitry Karamov, Associate Professor of the Baikal School of BRICS, has reached the semi-final of the UNESCO-Japan International Prize on Education for Sustainable Development. The researcher submitted a program to train specialists dealing with off-grid power production of remote territories.
The UNESCO-Japan Prize has been held since 2015 to support scientists and professors who are involved in the conservation and rational use of resources. The authors of the best projects are annually awarded of USD 50,000.
The competitive selection in Russia is supervised by the Department of International Cooperation of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. In 2023 Dmitry Karamov, Associate Professor of INRTU, joined the three Russian applicants.
The research interests include the functioning of off-grid energy systems and modelling of energy service contracts, general issues of electrification of the territories of Siberia and the Far East. The results of scientific research are shared at international conferences and in high-ranking industry publications, such as Energy Conversion and Management, Energy Reports and Energies.
The Irkutsk scientist sent a draft nomination to the National Committee of the UNESCO-Japan Prize, which contains methodological recommendations. In this project Dmitry Karamov outlined the idea that infrastructure and sufficient level of energy resources allow the development of remote territories:
“The project describes universal methods in the field of renewable energy. The integrated approach made it possible to characterize the production, transmission, consumption and accumulation of off-grid electricity in isolated areas. It is especially significant that scientific solutions are successfully integrated into the educational program of the Baikal School of BRICS for the training of power engineers. They will apply knowledge and skills to sustainable development.The project involves professors Konstantin Suslov and Vladislav Shakirov, second-year students Danil Volygin, Yuri Solov, Denis Vsevolodov and Roman Maslennikov. Students from Ethiopia and China are also active, mastering modern electric power technologies in INRTU”.
Consulting and management of document preparation was provided by the Department for International Scientific and Educational Projects of INRTU headed by Constantine Grigorov.
“In April, we received a request from the Department of International Cooperation of Ministry of Science and Higher Education inviting us to participate in the UNESCO-Japan Prize call for nominations. Dmitry Karamov was offered as a nominee by Head of the Department of Scientific Activity Elena Panasenkova. We promptly filled out the competition application, sent in and received a positive response from the Ministry. Now, we are looking forward to the final results,” said Constantine Grigorov.
