KBSU’s employees took part in the international forum «Technoprom-2023»

On August 22–25, Novosibirsk hosted the 10th International Technological Development Forum Technoprom-2023, the main theme of which was Science, Technology and Industry at the basis for the development of the region.

Representatives of government, business and the research community from Russia and foreign countries discussed the development of digital technologies, energy, ecology and climate, new materials, food security and staffing the economy.

On August 24, 2023, within the framework of the forum in a hybrid format, a round table «Sustainable Development Goals: Potential for Russian Regions» was held.

In a discussion from the Kabardino-Balkarian State University named after Kh. M. Berbekov was attended online by Timur Aramisov, Director of the Center for Sustainable Development of the Institute of Management, Tourism and Hospitality Industry, and Yury Ushanov, Scientific Advisor of the Center, Deputy Chairman of the Council for Professional Qualifications in the Hospitality Industry.

The round table was attended by the head of the ESG laboratory of Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov Khristofor Konstantinidi, Vice President of the Business School of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, Director for Development and Acceleration Programs Dmitry Bogdanov, Advisor to the Managing Director, Corporate Director of AV Group, Head of Infrastructure at LC-AV Natalia Ivanova, Head of the Department of Environmental Economics, Sergey Bobylev, Head of the Center for Bioeconomics and Eco-Innovations at Moscow State University, Maxim Papushenko, Minister of Economic Development of the Rostov Region, Alexander Dolganov, Deputy Chairman of the Board of Center-Invest Bank, Associate Professor of the Department of Economics and Investments, Siberian Institute of Management, RANEPA, Senior Researcher, Institute of Economics and Trade of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Natalya Gorbacheva, Chairman of the Moscow Chamber of Commerce and Industry Anna Zolotorevskaya.

The participants of the discussion discussed the issues of using national SDG indicators as a tool for uniting the activities of regional authorities to achieve global goals; considered models of sustainable development and prospects for the decarbonization of the Russian economy, as well as the possibility of assessing the sustainability of development and the prospects for ESG transformation in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation; the place and role of Russian regions in the federal sustainable development agenda; regional sustainable development strategies and climate change adaptation plans; introduction of indicators for assessing sustainable development goals in the system for assessing the activities of authorities at the regional level and the possibility of creating a common system for assessing sustainable development goals, taking into account regional characteristics.

The goals of sustainable development today are vague, indicative, do not have a quantitative (numerical) characteristic. The industrial features of the implementation of the SDGs are not taken into account. We are building quantum computers, and the tasks for these computers should cover complex mathematical models of sustainable development of the region, sustainable tourism, sustainable hospitality. Moreover, the models of sustainable development of the region should not be divorced from the model of sustainable development of tourism,

— Yuri Ushanov noted during the discussion.

Based on the results of the discussion platform of the international forum Technoprom-2023, a decision was made to introduce the concept of «sustainable development» into the main strategic documents at the federal and regional levels, as well as the SDG system and indicators of their achievement into strategic documents at the federal and regional levels; introduction of indicators for assessing sustainable development goals in the statistical reporting of regions on socio-economic development, in particular, in the system for evaluating governors; organization of adaptation of existing and development of new statistical data to assess the achievement of sustainable development goals in the regions; introduction of sustainable development indicators at the level of organizations into the system for assessing the potential of an organization when fulfilling government orders and receiving other state support measures.

Translated by Gekkieva J.A.