Integrated Doctoral Program for Environmental Policy, Management and Technology
586471-EPP-1-2017-1-EE-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP

Project acronym: INTENSE

Cross Regional Multi-Country Joint Project

Priority – Higher Education
Project duration: 15 October 2017 – 14 October 2020
EU funding instrument: European Neighbourhood Instrument (Erasmus+: КА2 CBHE)
Target groups: students, academic staff, research administrators, academic institutions, government bodies, NGOs, companies, broader public

Project goals and objectives:
The project addresses such root causes of environmental problems in MN, UA & VN, as poorly formulated policies, inadequate selection of management actions and the lack of suitable technology, by building capacity for academic excellence in doctoral training in environmental studies in PCs (and beyond).

Specific project objectives are:
• integration of doctoral programs related to environmental studies in 7 PIs to 3 INTENSE national doctoral schools, assembling the INTENSE doctoral schools into the international network;
• enhancing the INTENSE doctoral schools with innovative learning and governance infrastructure, and ensuring their sustainability and further growth.

Project partners:

EU

Estonian Life Science University, Tartu, Estonia – the project coordinator
University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria
Latvian National University, Riga, Latvia

Ukraine

Odessa State Environmental University, Odessa
Kharkiv V.N.Karazin National University, Kharkiv
Institute for the Carpathians’ Ecology of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Lviv

Mongolia

National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar
Khovd University, Khovd

Vietnam

Hanoi University of Science and Technology
Ho Chi Minh University of Natural Resources and Environment

Associated partners

Erda Research Technology Education (ERTE), Rijswijk, the Netherlands
‘RZ. Research. Management. Communication’ Company (RZ), Lund, Sweden