Fact Finding Mission Jakutien (10.-17.08.2018)
Saturday | 11 August 2018 | |
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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" | |
18:00 | Welcome Dinner with the 4 host institutions: Restaurant "Makhtal" (Yakut/Sakha national cuisine) | |
Sunday | 12 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 Farm "KYUN TYKTA" & Meeting with Enterpreneur I.P. Makarov | ||
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" | ||
19:00 | Return to Yakutsk | |
Monday | 13 August 2018 | |
09:00 | 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 | |
17:30 | Visit of an organic farm with Yakut Cattle & BBQ | |
Tuesday | 14 August 2018 | |
08:30 | Group 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 | ||
Wednesday | 15 August 2018 | |
09:00 | Group 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 | ||
09:00 | Group 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 | |
09:00 | Group 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 | |
13:00 | Welcome Address and Lunch at the Yakut Scientific Institute of Agriculture | |
15:00 | Visit 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") | |
19:00 | Dinner | |
Thursday | 16 August 2018 | |
08:30 | Group 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) | |
10:00 | Visit of the Mammouth Museum, North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk | |
14:00 | Wrap-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 | ||
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19:00 | Dinner, Restaurant "Tygyn Darkhan" (on invitation by all 4 host institutions) | |
Friday | 17 August 2018 | |
09:30 | Departure from Yakutsk |