Project Management and Agile Technology in Environmental Science and Sustainable Development in the “University – Employer – Region” System

Natalya Yevgenievna Ryazanova,Ekaterina Vladimirovna Kazakova,Natalia Evgenievna Lobzhanidze,V.V Ryabov

doi:10.1051/shsconf/20207902022

Abstract

In this article, the authors present the outcomes of three years of their scientific work on the formulation of a research hypothesis, the formation of project research groups, and the presentation of the outcome to groups of “customers”: employers and/or regions. An interdisciplinary approach was applied in this work, which allowed to integrate environmental, economic, and social research methods. The objectives of the study were to determine the range of the relevant research topics in environmental science and sustainable development and formation of cases; to perform the personal and collective work in the project group; to form the skill of working with topic experts and documents in students; and to verify the work and present to the customer. The youth modeling of international and national processes and events, project laboratories, and cases obtained in the course of the study were presented in this work.

Highlights

The relevance of the presented work consists in adapting the topic of education for sustainable development to various teaching forms and methods
A methodological approach to developing a more or less universal approach has been developed, which can be recommended to Russian universities as a rational form of the project-based work on the topic of Sustainable Development with a special emphasis on the topic of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) Environmental Cluster, because global and regional environmental problems are considered to be the most significant for the transformation of society, especially in the face of the increasing instability amid the global pandemic
The pedagogical technology has been developed in three formats to promote the SDG agenda in Russia: youth modeling, project laboratory, and case studies

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Introduction

The relevance of the presented work consists in adapting the topic of education for sustainable development to various teaching forms and methods. The problem has arisen for universities regarding finding potential “customers” that could correctly break down their large research projects into small research items (parts) and offer them to universities as small project tasks “worth” two to six credits to allow each student to choose an interesting subject and depth of immersion convenient to their personal educational path. Such project-based work is often implemented using the eduScrum technology [3]

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