Science and technics

Experts and researchers representing virtually all post-industrial and developing countries, joined by the authorities of UNESCO, as part of the work of the International Competence Centre for Mining-Engineering Education under the auspices of UNESCO, presented an analysis of recent trends in the global energy market in their relation to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

As the concentration of a valuable component in ores is declining, the complexity of developing fossil fuel deposits is increasing, and competition is growing, oil & gas and mining companies face the challenge of raising production profitability.

It was 16 years ago when the Forum-Contest ”Topical Issues of Rational Use of Natural Resources” was held by the Mining University for the first time. This year, the forum moved online, which, however, positively impacted both the number of contestants and the number of viewers.

The Celestial Empire promptly coped with the second wave of the epidemic and is returning to its previous way of life. How much has it changed? Has unemployment risen? And has the pandemic affected the level of cooperation between scientists from Russia and China? These and other questions Forpost.ru addressed to Xiaowei Feng, a researcher at the State Laboratory of Coal Resources and Safe Mining of the University of Mining and Technology, located in Xuzhou City.

The Mining University’s journal, which has turned 113 years old this year, is now recognised internationally.

Socrates, arguably the world’s most known philosopher, was executed by poisoning - he drank a mixture containing poison hemlock. At that time death penalty alongside with ostracism, a procedure in which any citizen of ancient Athens could be expelled from the state, were among the most popular methods of punishment. If the majority voted in favour of the sentence, a person had no other choice but to leave or die. Quite often, people who ended up in exile or sentenced to death were later acknowledged as the national pride. There is a chance something similar is happening with hydrocarbons today.

Most Russian educational institutions have bravely reported on a successful transition to online learning. However, reality turned out to be slightly less glowing than officials and heads of educational institutions imagined. Forpost-sz.ru decided to look into the problems that handicap efficient remote communication between teachers and students; whether or not will this format muscle out traditional lectures and classes after the pandemic, and who really has benefited from the forced flight into the digital space.

In 2012, when oil prices were at historic highs, Aberdeen managed to surpass London, ranking first in the number of multimillionaires per 100.000 residents over the UK.

The global pace of digitalisation is enormous, but European post-graduates in mining do not lag behind the trend - as of now, the most demanded innovative solutions in the EU are the ones that simplify work processes through the use of information technologies.