Boreal Nights 4 – July 2007
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SEC Saint-Petersburg www.graph.runnet.ru State Educational Centre ROSATOM |
The young
generation learns to dialogue with Civil Society
Nuclear and new
technologies:
an environmental solution
RUSSIA / Saint-Petersburg
FRANCE / Lyon
ORGANIZERS
The State Regional
Educational Centre (SEC) has a dual mission:
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to promote and provide postgraduate education,
·
to offer trainings to professionals in numerous areas
linked to advanced technologies, of which nuclear energy is a part.
The courses and
programs at SEC respond quickly to the needs of the public and nuclear
enterprises. Trainings help students to add value to their education and offer
them new career opportunities.
The Centre involves
into the training process leading experts of Russian Ministries, government
bodies, prominent scientific and research institutions, and universities.
A Regional Centre
of Public Information was opened in the structure of State Regional Educational
Centre in 1997; the premises of the Centre include the exposition hall, video
hall, the hall for press conferences, rooms for meetings, conferences.
Website :
www.graph.runnet.ru
The Young
Generation group of the SFEN (French Society of Nuclear Energy), created in
1995, counts 300 students from Grandes Ecoles and Universities but also counts
200 young professionals working in the nuclear industry. The Young Generation
(YG) group is integrated both into the European Nuclear Society and into the
International Youth Nuclear Congress.
The 4 main goals of
the YG are :
Thereby, the YG is
attentive to the public and answers to questions from the younger generation on
problems linked to nuclear power, on energy and sustainable development.
Website :
www.sfenjg.org
PROGRAM
Topic : Learning communication skills
Program set by the State Regional
Education Centre in Saint Petersburg (ROSATOM)
à Courses
and lectures given by Professors, journalists and sociologists.
à Visits (Radium
Institute in Saint-Petersburg, RBMK nuclear power plant in
Sosnovy Bor…).
à Round table conferences.
Topic : Exchanges with civil society
Program set by the Young Generation
group of the French Society of Nuclear Energy.
à
Conferences by specialists,
à Visits (PWR
nuclear power plant located in Bugey, nuclear fuel fabrication plant…).
à Meetings
with elected representatives and journalists.
PARTICIPANTS
Students and Young
Professionals working in the nuclear industry: 10 Frenchmen (6 young professionals from
AREVA, CEA, EDF and 4 engineering students) and 10 Russians (young
professionals from
ROSENERGOATOM, ROSATOM, ATOMPROM ) :
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Desirous
to learn how to communicate on nuclear energy as an energy supply source of the
future,
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Concerned
about sharing their expertise and improving it,
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Willing
to strengthen cooperation on nuclear energy between young generations of the
French and Russian nuclear societies.
SPEAKERS
Professors from
Universities sharing their knowledges in communication area,
psychology and human sciences,
Multidisciplinary experts in
environment, industry, economics and geopolitical strategies,
Women and men, involved in
the civil society and desirous of
confronting their on-site experience with the realities of the tomorrow’s
world.
HISTORY
In 2000, on the occasion of the first “International Youth Nuclear
Congress” (IYNC) held in BRATISLAVA, the young professionals working within
nuclear companies (32 countries, 400 representatives) became conscious that
known energy resources are limited; our societies will have to make choices and
compromises between their increasing energy needs and the conservation of the
existing environment.
In 2002, congress participants in DAEJON, South Korea, concluded that
their generation had to restore conditions for dialogue with society so that
citizens make dispassionately, knowingly and at the right time their choice in
the matter of offered energy options.
Following positive exchange experiences between young generations of the
Russian and French nuclear societies, a
concrete cooperation was born in July 2002 with the creation of a seminar
called “Boreal Nights”. This seminar is dedicated to the dialogue between
young professionals working in the nuclear industry and civil society.
Boreal
Nights Series – Past editions:
2002 – NB1 : « Young
generation learns to talk with society »
2003 – NB2 :
« Young generation learns to talk with society about energies and
sustainable development »
2005 – NB3 :
« Young generation learns to talk with society »
2007 – NB4 : «
Young generation learns to talk with society about Nuclear and news
technologies : an environmental solution »
BENEFITS FOR INVOLVED
PARTIES
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To send a strong signal to the young generation
to encourage them to involve oneself deeply in sciences and to trust in the
future.
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To train young people to listen and dialogue:
experience has demonstrated that they are efficient and credible vis-a-vis the
public.
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Consolidate their vocation by many exchanges
with seniors, society and experts.
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To provide potential contacts with the
industrial world.
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To give them confidence in themselves and to allow them to
vehicle information
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To develop their knowledges in nuclear-related
areas.
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To develop their ease in listening and
communicating both within the company and the social environment.
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To create a network, guarantee of a future
professional efficiency in an already complex and interdependent world, and,
above all, to encourage entrepreneurship.
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To provide tools to civil society
representatives to understand the world and make it evolve by comparing with
their counterparts their ideas.
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To obtain answers to their questions and,
therefore, to encourage the expression of citizens.
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To enrich and widen their knowledge base by
contacts with credible experts.
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To take actively part in the building of a smart
future.