Under the project “Developing Micro-Credentials Ecosystems in Ukraine and Mongolia for Competitive and Resilient Green Economies – DOMANI”, which is funded by ERASMUS+ CBHE program, the NUM, the School of Agroecology-Business of the MULS, and the Environmental Auditing Association of Mongolia jointly organized the “The Settled Nomadism – 2025: Green transition” national summer school was successfully organized in Ulaanbaatar and Darkhan cities of Mongolia for a total of 14 days from June 16 to 29, 2025.
The summer course aimed to bring together Mongolian researchers, experts, stakeholders, and students to share knowledge and learn from each other’s experiences on the national level on green transition, urban environment, resilience, and positive and negative ecosystem services.
Online registration for the summer school was conducted for 20 days starting from May 16, 2025. In total, 37 people applied, and based on criteria 28 people selected. However, 2 persons could not fully participate in the school, therefore 26 participants received certificates with 6 ECTS.
Statistics of participants:
- Gender ratio: 🚹7 :🚺 19
- Location: UB 12 : Darkhan 14
- Type: Student 87% : ECR 8% : LLL 5%
- Education level: BSc 73% : MSc 23% : PhD 3%
- Age range: 52 – 15
- English: Beginner 41% : Intermediate 36% : Advanced 23%
At the summer school, 15 professors and researchers from 5 countries (Mongolia, Estonia, Italy, Hungary, India) taught theoretical and practical knowledge in the classroom and in the field, covering the following topics:
- Circular economy
- Eco-labelling – Eco-consumer
- Nature-based solutions
- Positive – negative ecosystem services
- Green and blue urban infrastructure
- Low-carbon industry
- Renewable energy
- Afforestation – restoration – carbon sequestration
- Environmental monitoring and assessment, etc.
More information:
The project website: https://domaniproject.eu/
The Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/domani
The YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@DomaniProject
Reported by:
Altansukh Ochir, National University of Mongolia