St. Petersburg State Forest Technical University

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2 St. Petersburg State Forest Technical University Address: Institutsky per., , St. Petersburg, Russia Phone: +7 (812) Fax: +7 (812) mchubinsky@gmail.com Maxim Chubinsky, executive director of ICFFI, ass. prof., department of general ecology, physiology of plants and wood science

3 Year of foundation 1803 The leading institution of high education and forest researches in Russia 1500 labourers 26 members of Russian Academy of Natural Sciences 75 professors 245 associate professors 205 teachers 8000 students

4 Short history review Forests cover 26 % (342 millions hectares) of the earth surface mln ha of forests apply to the portion of the developed countries. The forest area of Russia complies 22 % of total area of forests in the world and 53% of the forests area of developed countries. Vast significance of Russian forests is determining great interest to the problems of forest complex in Russia and abroad.

5 For the first time the necessity in forestry specialists in Russia has occurred from the practical needs during the times of Peter the Great at the early XYIII century. Well-educated persons of nobles, naval officers, and persons from Western Europe, knowing the forest economy, had been invited to satisfy these needs. The first school of Russian forestry specialists was founded in The first educational institution was opened in 1803 by the Emperor Alexander II for education and teaching people in forestry science. In 1922 in Forest Institute was established the Forestry faculty, from which till 1929 independent faculties were organized: Forest-Engineering, Chemical- Technological, Mechanical Technology of Timber, Forest Marketing and Management. Forest Mechanical Faculty was opened after the second World War.

6 In 1930-es new Institutes were established in Arkhangelsk, Sverdlovsk, Krasnojarsk, Voronezh, Briansk, later in Moscow, Minsk, Lvov. At the same time with the development of Higher Education were established educational institutions for training the highly qualified workers according the system of vocational training schools, forestry technical secondary schools, technical secondary schools covering all directions of forestry complex activity, including more than 50 in all regions of Russia.

7 Faculties and departments Forestry Faculty Forest Engineering Faculty Faculty of Mechanical Technologies of Wood Forest Mechanical Faculty Faculty of Chemical Technology of Wood Faculty of Economics and Management Faculty of Landscape architecture Faculty of secondary education Forest Business School

8 Forestry Faculty Forestry department Department of forest plantations and genetics Department of forest inventory, forest management planning and GIS Department of general ecology, physiology of plants and wood science Department of zoology and forest protection Department of forest soils and hydromelioration Department of botany and dendrology Department of history and law Department of informational systems and technologies

9 Forest Engineering Faculty - Technology of forest industry production; - Land transportation of wood - Water transportation of wood; - Geodesy - High mathematics - Department of Physical and Sport Education

10 Faculty of Mechanical Technologies of Wood Department of Woodprocessing Technology; Machinery and Mechanisms of Woodworking Industry Department; Department of Theory of Mechanisms; Department of Electrical Engineering and Electric Devices Department of sawmilling and wood drying

11 Forest Mechanical Faculty Department of Wheeled and Crawler Forest Machines; Department of Design of Special Forest Machines; Department of Technology of Forest Machine Construction and Repair; Department of Theoretical Mechanics; Department of Thermal Techniques; Department of Labour Safety

12 Faculty of Chemical Technology of Wood Department of Wood Chemistry and Physics Chemistry; Department of Pulp and Paper Production; Department of biotechnology; Department of Wooden Plate Production; Department of engineering chemistry and ecology; Department of Organic Chemistry; Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry; Department of physics

13 Faculty of Economics and Management Department of Economy of Forest Complex; Department of forest policy, economy and management; Department of management, automatization and system analysis; Department of Bookkeeping and Economic Analysis; Department of General Economics Theory Department of marketing and basic management Department of Phylosophy; Department of Sociology and Politics;

14 Faculty of Landscape architecture Department of landscape design, gardening and park construction Department of Russian Language and pedagogy; Department of Foreign Languages Department of descriptive geometry and graphics

15 Faculty of secondary education College of timber industry automatization

16 Forest Business School Advanced professional studies for specialists Professional extended training is aimed for persons who have higher education on different specialty and work in forestry and forest industry. Supplementary courses for students

17 Other Departments Botanical Garden Okhta field-training station 1729 ha Lisino field training station ha

18 About 1000 class-rooms and laboratories Computer center Fundamental library from the very beginning the purpose of the library was to collect Russian and foreign forest literature as much completely as possible. Today the library is keeping about 1,5 million volumes deals with whole forest complex. The Botanical Garden have the richest collection of trees, shrubs and herbage at 60-th parallel North more then 2000 species Unique museums: Forest Entomology; Forest Zoology and Hunting; Soil and Geology

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20 SPb SFTA surrounded with beautiful park (65 ha) one of the favorite recreational areas for citizens

21 Park is also one of the old sightseeing of St. Petersburg, the monument of park and gardening art of XIX century

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29 International Activities FTU cooperates with universities and scientific centres all over the world. The most developed partnership being with countries of Baltic Region, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany. Since 1953 foreign students have been studying at the Academy. Since that more then 3000 foreign students were graduated at the Academy. About 200 foreign students are being educated now. Department of Russian Language provides courses in Russian for foreigners (short, intensive, advanced courses)

30 International departments Department of International Relations - Department of international education programs - Congress department International center of forestry and forest industry

31 International education programs FORPEC (coordinator) EUROFORESTER (partner) CBU (partner) MScEF (partner)

32 International projects Finnish-Russian forest academy ENPI project. Partners: Lappenraanta Technology University, St. Petersburg University of Plant Polymers Aim: Preparation of the network between scientists and business, working in forestry

33 SUFAREL TEMPUS project. Coordinator : University of Helsinki. Partners: EFI, Metla and 9 educational and scientific organizations of Russia. Aim: preparation syllabi and teaching materials for MSc e-learning courses.

34 Big number of scientific projects. Main topics: forestry, forest management, GIS, forest genetics, forest entomology, fire protection, forest logging, forest roads. Main partners: organizations of Sweden, Finland, Germany, France, Poland, Baltic countries

35 Other international activities Intensive courses for international students Summer Schools Field trips for international students International seminars, conferences and other congress activities.

36 Plans Remote campus of UEF and Melta Project center of EFI

37 Welcome to St. Petersburg State Forest Technical Academy!