Economy and ecology: NEXT generation looking for a way reasonable balance for the future

There was held a master class on learning business game "Ecologic” as part of the study course "Environmental Economics" at the Faculty of Economics of SSAU.

Training workshop was held by regional representative of the company, the manufacturer of the game Katerina Trush (Rostov-on-Don) Students of two faculties took part in the game – “Economics”, 4^th year students ("Economics of Enterprises and Organizations"), and Ecology and landscape architecture, 3d year students ("Ecology and natural resources”).

The initiators and organizers of the event were the lecturers of the Department "Economic theory and agribusiness economy" Olga Cherednichenko, Yulia Rybasova and Natalia Dovgotko. Head of the department "Ecology and landscape construction" Ph.D., Associate Professor Svetlana Okrut was invited to the event. She has supported her students in ecology and wished them victory in the game.

There were 4 teams at the table, as part of each had two members - student of ecology and student of economics. The basic idea of ​​the business game is to show the way of a reasonable balance of economy and ecology as the two most important factors in the future development.

During the game, it was necessary to earn as much money and "environmental score", but do not forget to seek a balance between income and indicators of environmental quality. Victory Points in the game evolved not only from the amount of income and "ecological points", but the equality of these indices.

During the game, participants tried on the role of eco-entrepreneur,who harmoniously combines the efficiency of business and the environment: to develop its own production, participated in the auctions conducted business negotiations with competitors, improve production in order to reduce its impact on the environment. As a result, the students could test their business skills and the level of environmental awareness. Workshop proved that «Ecologic» game is an original tool for the development of skills and system thinking, therefore, is useful not only to students but also businessmen and practitioners and environmentalists.

Developers of this Board Game - Alexei Kolmakov, CEO of the manufacturer of the game, and Marat Sabirov, he is a researcher at the Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences named after Sechenov. They implemented the project on crowdfinding platform where the means for release of the first edition were collected. Today, the game is popular in many cities of Russia: St. Petersburg, Moscow, Irkutsk, Voronezh, Ufa, Kazan, Perm, Syktyvkar, Tver. Now Stavropol joined it!

The master class was organized for the purpose of learning the game and then applying game forms in the educational process, as well as to hold a competition "Ecologic" among students of the III Youth Festival in the field of ecology and sustainable development "VuzEkoFest - 2017" at the Stavropol State Agrarian University. 

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