Regional Development: New Challenges for Engineering Education (SYNERGY-2021 Conference Results Review)

The article summarizes the results of the plenary session of the international network conference “Regional development: new challenges for engineering education – SYNERGY-2021”, held at Kazan National Research Technological University from October 19 to 20, 2021. The forum which brought together representatives of universities and industrial enterprises of Russia and abroad was devoted to the issue of training engineers for the petrochemical industry. Among the participants were representatives of international societies for engineering education, ten national research universities and seven supporting universities of PJSC Gazprom, state authorities and industrial enterprises of Tatarstan. It was possible to observe the work of the plenary session in real time via the Internet in all the supporting universities of Gazprom. The event was organized by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, the International Society for Engineering Pedagogy (IGIP), the Association of Engineering Education of Russia (AIOR), as well as the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Republic of Tatarstan and Kazan National Research Technological University. Gazprom PJSC became the general sponsor. In total, the conference gathered more than 450 participants (380 online and 85 in person) from 40 universities in Russia, the USA, Great Britain, Germany, Portugal, Finland, Poland, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Armenia, Latvia, and Estonia. Representatives of 7 industrial enterprises spoke, 77 reports were made.

BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA IN THE CONTEXT OF REGIONAL AND GLOBAL COOPERATION FOR CONSERVATION AND SUSTAINABLE USE OF BIODIVERSITY

UDK: 574:502(497.6) With the geographical position and climate conditions it has, Bosnia and Herzegovinais a countryof unique life forms and biodiversity. The flora, fauna and fungi of Bosnia and Herzegovina are among the most diverse in Europe, and the high level of endemism and relict species provide for the country’s significance at the global biodiversity level (UNCBD, 2019). Since 2002, Bosnia and Herzegovina, as a party to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (UNCBD), has been following global trends of conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity. Followingthe Convention, among others, six national reports were developed, as well as the Strategy and Action Plan for Protection of Biological Diversity in Bosnia and Herzegovina (NBSAP) by 2020. These documents seek to ensure that protection and sustainable use of biodiversity become inevitable principles when relevant sectoral policies, strategies and legislation at all governmental levels of Bosnia and Herzegovina are being developed. In 2013, the Bosnian-Herzegovina Clearing House Mechanism (CHM) portal for sharing information on biodiversity was established within the global network CBD CHM. As a member country of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), Bosnia and Herzegovina actively represents and advocates for the interests of Eastern Europe. Bosnia and Herzegovina has made significant contribution to the preparation of a Regional and Sub-Regional Assessment for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services for Europe and Central Asia, which was adopted at the Sixth Plenary Session of IPBES (Medellin, Colombia, March 2018). In the context of regional and global cooperation, Bosnia and Herzegovina significantly contributes to the organization of the workshop and the preparation of an Eastern European Action Document on Pollinators, Food Security and Rural Development, within BES-Net Trialogue. Bosnia and Herzegovina reaffirmed its commitment to the status of pollinators by accessing to the global Coalition of the Willing on Pollinators at the 6th IPBES Plenary Session.

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It is my great pleasure to grace all of your presence to the 6th ICSBE 2021 virtually. The International Conference on Sustainable Built Environment is bi-annual conference started from 2010 till now. At first, the 6th ICSBE was scheduled in 2020 however, the COVID-19 pandemic altered all of our life order including this conference that have to be postponed into 2021 and conducted virtually. This conference is held for 2 days in 19 – 20 October 2021 conducted in Faculty of Civil and Planning Engineering, Universitas Islam Indonesia, Yogyakarta-Indonesia. The main theme of the 6th ICSBE 2021 is “sustainable infrastructure and environment for the smart cities”. This theme was dedicated to discuss and deliver an implementable solution to address the issues of urban planning, transport systems, water and sanitation, waste management, disaster risk reduction, access information, education, and capacity-building. Therefore, it is important to mapping, planning and designing a sustainable environment and infrastructure that may greatly encounter and reduce those issues above to reach the sustainable development goals. Based on this, this conference focuses the following topics but not limited to livable rural and urban environment, green infrastructure, sustainable resource management, sustainable city and disaster management. In this conference, we received more than 80 papers at the beginning, which were covering in five topics. All the submitted papers were reviewed by peer to peer and double blind with two reviewers. The 6th ICSBE highly applied strong and accurate review process prior to be published in the IOP conference proceeding indexed Scopus in the series of Earth Environmental Science (EES). Finally, we are accepting 50 papers to be presented in this conference. The conference model is plenary session and parallel session which is held for 2 days. In the plenary session, there are 3 invited speakers for the 1st day and 2nd day. Each invited speakers are allowed to give presentation for 30 minutes. The question answer is given after all invited speakers finished their presentation for 40 minutes. In the parallel session, there are 5 subtopics delivered in 2 days. In the 1st day, 3 subtopics: Green Infrastructure, Sustainable Resource Management, and Sustainable City are delivered. There are 26 presenters delivered their paper. In the 2nd day, 2 subtopics: Disaster Management, and Livable Rural and Urban Environment, are delivered. There 24 presenters delivered their paper. Each presenters have 12 minutes to give presentation and 3 minutes for question and answer. All the conference presentation is delivered by using zoom technology belongs to Universitas Islam Indonesia with 1000 capacity of participants. This conference is participated by audience from Indonesia, Turkey, Japan, USA, Malaysia, and Germany. The 6th ICSBE 2021 is organized by the faculty of Civil Engineering and Planning, Universitas Islam Indonesia and supported by partner universities; Gifu University (Japan), University of Malaya (Malaysia), University of Rhode Island (USA), National Cheng Kung University (Taiwan), University of Boras (Sweden), University Hawaii at Manoa (USA), Hokkaido University (Japan), Alanya Alaaddin Kaykubat University (Turkey), Behaus-Universitaet Weimar (Germany), National University of Singapore (Singapore), and other international institutes Last but not least, I would express our sincere gratitude to the keynote speaker: The Governor of Jakarta, Anies Rasyid Baswedan, Ph.D, to the the invited speakers Prof. Nobouto Nojima, Prof. Noor Cholis Idham, Prof. Frank Eckardt, Asso. Prof. Anita Petterson, Assoc. Prof. Anita Pettersson, and Prof. NG How Yong, and as well as all participants for joining and sharing of idea, knowledge, and friendship in a relatxing environment. And, the most important, I would to sincere and great appreciation to the organizing committee, editors, scientific committee, and reviewers for all their solidity, harmony, and synergy work. We do hope all participants are going to enjoy the conference in terms of both its academic and social atmosphere. Dr. Joni Aldilla Fajri, ST., M. Eng. Chairperson of The 6th International Conference on Sustainable Built Environment Yogyakarta, October 15th, 2021 List of Organizing Committee are available in this pdf.

Preface

Pandemic COVID-19 has hardly impacted global fisheries and aquaculture, as FAO reported in the 34th session of the Committee on Fisheries (COFI) in February 2021. FAO further suggests that this pandemic impact catalyzes the fisheries sector to be more innovative, socially, and environmentally responsible. Fish and fisheries products are well-known healthy food. It contains high quality and quantity of protein and provides essential vitamins and minerals to maintain human health status. The innovation of science and technology in the fisheries sector is a crucial point to improve and assure the efficiency and sustainability of the production and utilization of the resource. Research activities and development should be synergically conducted to implement technologies that benefit the communities. Department of Fisheries, Faculty of Agriculture, Universitas Gadjah Mada, holds a biennially international symposium to provide access and exchange of research data and fisheries experience to support the transfer of knowledge and technology to strengthen the world’s fisheries sector. The 4th International Symposium on Marine and Fisheries Research (The 4th ISMFR) aims to bring together academic scientists, researchers, government institutions, private parties, and stakeholders to share and exchange progress information, experiences, and research results in all aspects of marine and fisheries sciences. The 4th ISMFR theme was promoting sustainable fisheries through technology and research innovation for a healthy community”. It covered a broad spectrum of fisheries-related topics, including aquaculture, fish disease, fish genetics, biotechnology, marine natural product, seafood processing technology, seafood safety, fisheries biology, fisheries resources management, fisheries socio-economics, oceanography, climate sciences, and marine ecotoxicology. Due to the Pandemic COVID-19, the 4th ISMFR was held virtual on July 28-29, 2021, by using the Zoom Meeting platform. We cannot postpone this symposium because it is a routine schedule for researchers and stakeholders to disseminate and discuss their research findings. The seminar’s organizing committee was located in the Fisheries Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Management of the symposium was carried out using the website (http://ismfr-ugm.org/). The symposium consists of a plenary session and parallel presentation sessions. The plenary session presented three keynote speakers, namely Professor Rashid Sumaila from The University of British Columbia (Canada), Professor Erlinda R. Cruz Lacierda from The University of the Philippines Visayas (Philippines), and Professor Soottawat Benjakul from The Prince of Songkla University (Thailand). A total of six parallel presentation sessions was conducted with 12 invited speakers and presenters from eight countries, namely Norway, Belgium, New Zealand, Japan, Australia, Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia. Presentations in each parallel class were divided into presentation panels consisting of approximately five presenters. Each presenter was given 10 minutes for presentation and discussion. Discussion sessions were held at the end of each forum for about 15 minutes. A total of 146 scientific papers have been presented at the 4th ISMFR. The 4th ISMFR was attended by 155 participants. All presenters and attendances join the symposium virtually from their respective residences. Readers can access recordings of the 4th ISMFR Plenary session on the YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGtjnoR3hSo&t=7599s). This proceeding provides an opportunity for readers to gain more information from the reviewed papers that have been presented in the 4th ISMFR. The articles published in this proceeding were selected from the papers presented in the symposium. The reviewers from six countries (Philippines, Egypt, Malaysia, Thailand, Japan, Indonesia) and the editors from four countries (Malaysia, Thailand, Japan, Indonesia) have participated in the abstracts screening, improving, and finalizing the manuscripts. The proceedings divided into three sections, namely aquaculture, aquatic resource management, and fish product technology. From this proceeding, readers will find recent research finding on broad aspects of fisheries and marine sciences to come up with new knowledge and idea to promote sustainable fisheries through technology and research innovation for a healthy community. We want to thank all parties for the success of the 4th ISMFR. Our gratitude is presented to the organizing committee, keynote and invited speakers, reviewers, editors, and editing staff for the dedication, hard work, and tireless efforts in implementing the symposium and publication process. We express our acknowledgment to the Rector of Universitas Gadjah Mada, the Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture, the Head of Fisheries Department, and the Publication Agency of Universitas Gadjah Mada, who provided continuous support on the symposium. Our thank you also conveyed to the speakers and participants, who have given their best efforts to disseminate, discuss, and publish papers. We also thank all parties who have contributed to the success of the 4th ISMFR and the publication. We sincerely hope readers will find notable pieces of knowledge on fisheries and marine science from different points of view. Chief Editor List of committees of the 4th ISMFR, List of Editors of the 4th ISMFR proceeding, Documentation of the 4th ISMFR are available in this pdf.

Preface

These proceedings are the output of the 6th International Conference of Indonesia Forestry Researchers - Stream 1 Emerging Environmental Quality for Better Living (INAFOR 2021 Stream 1) that was organised virtually by the Center for Standardization of Environmental Quality Instruments, Agency for Standardization of Environment and Forestry Instruments, Ministry of Environment and Forestry of Republic of Indonesia on 08 September 2021. The conference was held during the pandemic of covid-19, and due to the international and national travel restriction, the conference was carried out via online platform. The conference presented and discussed the current environmental issues in Indonesia including monitoring of environmental pollution, role of environmental laboratory and set up national standard of environmental monitoring; circular economy and environmental quality management by businesses and relevant activities; mercury pollution, progress of National Action Plan for mercury reduction and elimination as a part of the ratification of Minamata Convention on Mercury; medical wastes and disposal concerning Covid-19 pandemic and antibiotically resistance; domestic waste, hazardous and poisonous materials and wastes; restoration and remediation of contaminated lands; and freshwater litters. The conference arranged into two sessions; they were oral presentations from keynote speakers in the plenary session and scholar presenters in the parallel session. In the first session, the keynote speakers were each allocated 25-30 minutes for presentation and 30 minutes for panel discussion (Q and A). There were four international keynote speakers contributed to the plenary session. Firstly, Prof. Dr. Satoshi Murao represented Daiichi Institute of Technology, Japan, talked about Mercury Reduction from Artisanal Gold Mining Sector. Secondly, Prof. Dr. Seca Gandaseca from University Putra Malaysia presented Water Quality of Tropical Forest Ecosystems. Thirdly, the Director for Performance Evaluation of Hazardous Waste and Non-Hazardous Waste Management of the Ministry of Environment and Forestry of Republic of Indonesia discussed The Regulation of Covid-19 Medical Waste Management in Indonesia. The last, Dr. Nur Sumedi, S.Pi., M.P., as Acting Secretary of Agency for Standardization of Environment and Forestry Instruments, Ministry of Environment and Forestry of Republic of Indonesia discussed The Role of Science and Technology to Support the Improvement of Environmental Quality. In the parallel session, selected papers were presented by scholars in 10 minutes, and followed by 5 minutes discussion. The parallel session was divided into four different meeting room. Two rooms discussed the topic of anthropogenic pressure on environment and COVID-19 related mitigation: one room talked water quality of various ecosystems and another room conferred mercury, lead, and persistent organic pollutants (POPS) contamination. The conference was successfully run via a “Zoom” application meeting. At the plenary session, all participants joined in a plenary meeting “zoom” room. After this session, the participants were then assigned into a “breakout” room based on their academic or professional background. Finally, they re-joined the plenary room for the wrap up and closing ceremony. Lastly, we would like to express our sincere gratitude to the organizing committee and the members of reviewers for their kind assistance in reviewing the papers. We also thank to the chairman, scientific committees, keynote speakers, and all participants. We greatly thanks to the publisher for publishing the selected papers. We are looking forward to the next collaboration. List of Editors are available in this pdf.

The Practice Path of Government Governance Modernization

At the Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee, China clearly put forward the overall goal of comprehensively deepening reform, which can be summarized as “improving and developing the socialist system with Chinese characteristics and promoting the modernization of national governance capacity and governance system.” For the modernization of national governance, the modernization of government governance is undoubtedly a key link. The practical paths to achieve the modernization of government governance mainly include: First, realize the servitization of government governance; Second, realize the legalization in government governance; Third, realize the cheapness of government governance; Fourth, implement the responsibility of government governance.

Results of the XVIth International congress of steelmakes

From May 24 to May 27, 2021 the XVIth International of steelmakers took place in Ekaterinburg, in which 324 specialists took part. The Congress began from the plenary session following by the work in the four sections: “Ore processing, reducing processes, blast furnase and nonblast-furnace ironmaking”, “Technologies of steel production, simulation and process control”, “Casting, crystallization and finishing properties of steel”, “Energy effectiveness, resources saving and ecology”. More than 80 reports were delivered and discussed. Within the congress a competition of young specialists (students and postgraduates) was organized. An innovation of the congress was organization of round tables, where actual items were being discussed. The activity of the participants showed a high actuality of both the subjects and the parties dialog format. The company “VPO Steel” organized a round table “The role of refractories in metallurgy”. Representatives of largest metallurgical companies took part in the discussion. Round table “Perspetives of carbonless metallurgy – a myth ar reality” attracted lively interest of the participants. The participants of the round table heard the reports by subjects related to decrease of carbon footprint and problems of hydrogen energetics development in steel industry. The closing plenary meeting of the XVIth congress of steelmakers was devoted to discussion of the results of sections work and elaboration of some recomendationd, made as a resolution.