Potato and Potato: From Soil to Table Case Study Presentation Prof. Andrey Dakhin, RCE Nizhny Novgorod Europe Regional Meeting 2019 13-14 September, 2019, Heraklion, Greece

1. Andrey Dakhin,
Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Potato & Potato: From Soil to Table
(sub-project of “The Academy of New
Faces” program).
RCE- Nizhny Novgorod.
Europe Regional RCE Meeting 2019
Heraklion, Greece, 13 - 14 September 2019

2. Geographical introduction.
Nizhny Novgorod and Nizhegorodskaia oblast
are located in the European part of Russia,
about 400 km to the East from Moscow, on
the cross point of two grate rivers Volga and
Oka. The city was found in 1221, since 1932
to 1992 the historical name was changed on
Gor’ky city (on memory of soviet writer
Maksim Gor’ky).

3. Population of Nizhny
Novgorod is about 1,26
mln. people,
population of
Nizhegorodskaia oblast
- about 2.8 mln.
.

4. Forewords
“The Academy of New Faces” program was
created on the ground of NIM RANEPA for
partnerships and collaboration activity
different creative students, city
communities, municipal government. The
project takes efforts for develop horizontal
sustainable local public network

5. project thinking
The main goals
project groups activity
project collaborations
project co-working
volunteers activity
To develop “civil society – municipal government”
and “civil society – commerce business” local
collaboration in the field of local social policy.

6. In terms of UN
Sustainable
Development Goals
(SDGs)

7. Nizhny Novgorod city is industrial city around
rural districts.
Trends-challenges:
-depopulation of rural districts,
-chemistry|alisation of soil and environment
(artificial fertilizer)
-decrease of ecological culture of people

8. Sub-project "Potato & Potato“ is aimed on
safety and developing of mass/ public agricultural
culture which can be comprehensive part of
contemporary ecological public culture.
The starting ground is the present initiative of
student of NIM RANEPA – the project for eco-
village tourism “Bred & Salt”

11. Egor Otdel’nov

12. The project developing is related with new
kinds of activity that can be a comprehensive part
of the developing project.
One of the new component can be "Potato
& Potato“ sub-project.

16. The end of presentation.
Thank you!