On February 25, 2021, a seminar for developers and operators of information and service internet platforms for business and cross-border cooperation "Russian-Finnish investment internet platform" will be held online. The workshop program and the link to connect to Zoom can be found here.

On February 16, a webinar was held on the topic "Problems of soil pollution and biotechnological methods of cleaning". The webinar was organized by NP "AsEP" on the BBC1 project.
In the webinar included presentations of the Russian participants – representatives of the Committee for nature protection of the environment and ecological safety of St. Petersburg, FGKU "Directorate for organization of work on the elimination of accumulated environmental damage, as well as for ensuring safety of hydraulic structures polygon "Krasny Bor", JSC "Ekoprom", St. Petersburg state university of civil engineering, "Tekhnoterra", "Office of special designing "Sphere", LLC "Laboratory of Microbial Technology" and Finnish participants – Mikkeli city development agencies Miksei Oy, Ramboll Finland Oy. In total, about 30 people were present. The reports of the participants can be viewed below:

• Saija Tillgren, project manager, Mikkeli Development Miksei Ltd, Presentation of the project;
• Sari Hämäläinen, development engineer, City of Mikkeli, «State of contaminated soils in the city of Mikkeli»;
• Jarno Laitinen, leading expert, site solutions, Ramboll Finland Oy, «In situ remediation methods and sustainability»;
• Perttu Mattila, head of Soil and Groundwater Remediation, Doranova Oy, «In situ remediation case examples from Finland»;
• Alexey Avsyukevich, Ecoprom JSC, «Experience of soil cleaning from oil products pollution in the regions of Russia»;
• Ivan Serebritskyj, deputy Chairman of the Committee for Nature Use, Environmental Protection and Ecological Safety St. Petersburg, «The current state of soils and grounds in St. Petersburg»;
• Andrey Gorky, deputy Director of the Federal State Institution “Directorate for the organization of work to eliminate the accumulated harm to the environment, as well as to ensure the safety of hydraulic structures of the Krasny Bor landfill”, «Problems of Rehabilitation of Contaminated Sites in Russia»;
• Yuri Datsenko, “Laboratory of Microbial Technologies” LLC, «Clean-up of oil-contaminated soils using microbial biotechnology»;
• Maxim Losko, Special Design Buro “Sfera”, «Soil pollution monitoring and remediation of soils».

On February 11, Association of environmental partnerships (NP "AsEP") took part in an online session on the exchange of experience "Environmental and Transport Safety" (organized by the union "St. Petersburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry").
Reports were presented on the priority directions of ensuring road safety and environmental safety on the federal highway network in Russia, measures and road map for road safety and the use of alternative fuels in Finland, solutions of the company "Vaisala" for environmental and transport safety, on improving transport safety by improving meteorological support.

Registration of specialists for the XX International Forum "Ecology of the big city" and the XVII International specialized exhibition and conference "Housing and communal services of Russia" – the largest specialized congress and exhibition events in the North-West is open. The exhibition and congress programs will cover the entire range of topical issues of the development of the housing and communal complex and the environmental policy of cities.

Dates: March 23-25, 2021.
Location: St. Petersburg, convention and exhibition center "Expoforum".

You can register for the forum "Ecology of the big city" here.
Register for the exhibition "Housing and communal services of Russia" here.