On 2 December 2016 General Meeting of the International Association of Universities Environmentalists and Environmental Forum on ‘Higher Environmental Education: Standards for the Future’ were held at the premises of Odessa State Environmental University (OSENU), with the support of the International Association of Universities Environmentalists and the Institute of Ecology, Economics and Law.

The event, chaired by Prof. Sergiy Stepanenko, OSENU Rector, was attended by representatives of the International Association of Universities Environmentalists, legislative and executive authorities, bodies of education management, educational and research institutions.

A number of issues concerning development of higher environmental education and science in Ukraine was covered at the meeting, in particular, the ways to improve professional training of the future environmentalists in higher educational institutions were identified, and the development of cooperation between NGOs, government bodies, educational and research institutions in addressing the issues on environmental education and science was discussed.

Prof. Tamerlan Safranov presented the achievements under the project 544524-TEMPUS-1-2013-1-PL-TEMPUS-SMHES ‘Qualifications Frameworks for Environmental Science at Ukrainian Universities’ on elaboration of sectoral Qualifications Frameworks in Environmental Science.