Fact Finding Mission Yakutia (10-17 August 2018)

Due to the political situation, the cooperations are dormant until further notice.
Saturday11 August 2018
11:00

Arrival in Yakutsk

Transfer & Check-In in Hotel "Lena", Prospekt Lenina 8

14:00

Welcome by the Yakut Scientific Institute of Agriculture & Sight seeing in Yakutsk

Visit of "The Kingdom of Permafrost" / "Царство Вечной Мерзлоты"

Visit of "The Treasuries of Yakutia" / "Сокровищница Якутии"

18:00Welcome Dinner with the 4 host institutions: Restaurant "Makhtal" (Yakut/Sakha national cuisine)
Sunday12 August 2018
09:15

Field trip organized by the Yakut State Agricultural Academy: Local agriculture in the Namskiy District (Central Yakutia)

Village Kysyl-Syr: Contact: E.E. Gogolev, Interim Head of the Municipal Organization "Namskiy District"
Visit of Beekeeping Enterpreneur I. Makarov "Kyn tykta"
Visit of the Farm "Serge", V.A. Gerasimov, Village Krest-Kytyl
Visit of "House of Olonkho" (Yakut Epos) named after P.P. Yadrikhinskiy, Village Namtsy (Administrative Center of Namsky District)
BBQ at the Tourist Center "Lazurnyi Bereg"
19:00Return to Yakutsk
Monday13 August 2018
09:00

Symposium "Emerging Threats for Human Health: Impact of Socioeconomic and Climate Change on Zoonotic Diseases" (Program & Abstract Book)

Venue: Yakut State Agricultural Academy, Yakutsk

Symposium Report has been accepted for publication in "International Journal of Circumpolar Health" (peer-reviewed) on September 16, 2019

17:30Visit of an organic farm with Yakut Cattle & BBQ
Tuesday14 August 2018
08:30Group workshops / Excursions: define and discuss the research cooperation / excursions and scientific exchange / get to know each other closer, build mutual trust
Group 1: Zoonotic Diseases (Yakut State Agricultural Academy)
Group 2: Agronomy + Social Science: Yakut State Agricultural Academy (Agafya Platonova), Excursion to Khangalasskiy District, crop fields, local farmers, rural economy, rural households
Group 3: Soil & Climate: Institute of Biological Problems of the Cryolithozone (Prof. Roman Desyatkin)
individual program with a 2-day field excursion + Visit of Permafrost Institute
Wednesday15 August 2018
09:00Group workshops / Excursions

Group 1: Zoonosis: Ministry od Education and Science of the Russian Federation; Yakut Scientific Institute of Agriculture, Ul. Bestuzheva-Marlinskogo 23/1

Welcome by the Director of the Institute, Prof. Aiaal Stepanov
Presentation of the Director for Research, Prof. Revoriy Ivanov: Proposals for YSIA-UHOH Cooperation
Individual meetings of colleagues (microbiology, parasitology, microbiome)

09:00Group 2: Agronomy + Agriculture + Farm animals: Yakut Scientific Institute of Agriculture / Permafrost Institute
Visit of Experimental farm and field in Pokrovskiy District, animals + crops + berries (e.g. local strawberries)
Proposals for YSIA-UHOH cooperation
09:00Group 4: Social Science: Institute of Humanities and Indigenous Peoples of Yakutia (Vyacheslav Shadrin/Dr. Lilia Vinokurova), meetings with the representatives of Evenki, Even, Yukagir and Dolgan communities
13:00Welcome Address and Lunch at the Yakut Scientific Institute of Agriculture
15:00Visit of the North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk (NEFU), Institute of Medicine, and Research Institute of Health, Ul. Kulakovskogo 35
Prof. Dr. Snezhana S. Sleptsova (Director for Research, Institute of Medicine)
Dr. med. Isabella Yu. Samoylova, Head of Russian Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing (Rospotrebnadzor), Regional Office in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) (epidemiology)
Individual meetings (infectious diseases, e.g. Hepatitis E, paleo-infections) + Proposals for cooperation ("One Health")
19:00Dinner
Thursday16 August 2018
08:30Group 4: Social Science - Meeting with the Scientists of the Research Institute of Health, North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk, to discuss joint research projects (impact of socioeconomic transformations on nutrition, quality of life, health, wellbeing with focus on indigenous groups)
10:00Visit of the Mammouth Museum, North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk
14:00Wrap-Up Session: Defining a Roadmap for Yakutsk-Hohenheim Cooperation (all participants)
Signing Ceremony of the 5 Party Cooperation Agreement at the Yakut State Agricultural Academy
  • Report on the results of the group workshops
  • Discuss and outline the joint research project / projects, draft the relevant research questions and work packages
  • Discuss the relevant cross-sectoral, regulatory and ethics issues
  • Outline the Roadmap for Yakutsk-Hohenheim Cooperation and define the next steps
19:00Dinner, Restaurant "Tygyn Darkhan" (on invitation by all 4 host institutions)
Friday17 August 2018
09:30 Departure from Yakutsk

Impressions & Photos

Presentations, Contacts and Project Proposals

are available. Please call (-24688) or write to Katerina Potapova