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The continuous development of techniques related to agriculture information management and GIS, with a close connection to sustainable development, are factors which contribute to the dissemination of precision farming. Cape Verde and Mozambique have a strong dependence on agriculture, a lack of skilled professionals and extreme poverty rates in rural areas. There has been an increased acknowledgement of the need to develop new educational programs in developing countries focused on innovative crop and land manage...

Modern universities are not only the educational and research centers. There are here the ideas of sustainability can be developed and implemented most efficiently. Environmental friendliness and saving of resources require the innovative approaches that formed in the university. Hence, along with the popular rankings of effectiveness of education and research activity by the representatives of University of Indonesia was created the Green Metrics World University Ranking. Its participants are hundreds of universi...

Over the last few years, science has advanced unprecedentedly in explaining phenomena and facts with a high impact on society: earthquakes for example. On the other hand, new technologies are transforming the way (seismological) information is collected and transmitted to public and other various stakeholders categories. From interactive multimedia content to immersive experiences, difficult concepts become easier to be transmitted and understood by a wide variety of audience, starting with children, a most import...

In 2016, the Faculty of Geodesy aimed incumbent on goals of the Strategic Plan of the Technical University of Civil Engineering for the period 2016-2020. In light of the strategy developed by University management, the Faculty of Geodesy has identified several proposals to increase academic performance through education. One of the major concerns was reducing the studentsпїЅ drop-out rate within their first years of study. We tried to identify appropriate ways of helping and stimulating the students towards contin...

The modern major project on creation a unique, scientific, educational, and technological Center of space researches and technologies was launched on the base of Engelhardt Astronomical Observatory (EAO) of Kazan Federal University in 2008. In EAO educational activity in the fields of training and retraining of specialists is conducted; scientific and practical training courses take place on the following educational programs: space geodesy and remote sensing, astronomy, radio astronomy. It should be noted, curren...

The article shows that during teaching courses on space geodesy, astronomy, and natural science conceptions at Kazan Federal University (KFU) all the possible modern technologies are used. The natural science conceptions (NSC) course includes a large part on astronomy. This paper describes the modernization of the educational observational base at KFU. The complex of space geodesy and astronomy teaching and the natural science conceptions course at KFU can be contingently divided into four parts: theoretical, prac...