Project Management and Agile Technology in Environmental Science and Sustainable Development in the “University – Employer – Region” System

¹ Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University), Department of International Integrated Problems of Nature Management and Ecology, Laboratory of Geoecology and Sustainable Nature Management, 119454, Moscow, Russia
² National University of Oil and Gas «Gubkin University» (National Research University), Moscow, Russia
³ Russian State Agrarian University – Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural Academy, Faculty of Food Technology, Department of technology of storage and processing of animal products, Moscow, Russia

^* Corresponding author: natamgimo@gmail.com

Abstract

In this article, the authors present the outcomes of three years of their scientific work on the formulation of a research hypothesis, the formation of project research groups, and the presentation of the outcome to groups of “customers”: employers and/or regions. An interdisciplinary approach was applied in this work, which allowed to integrate environmental, economic, and social research methods. The objectives of the study were to determine the range of the relevant research topics in environmental science and sustainable development and formation of cases; to perform the personal and collective work in the project group; to form the skill of working with topic experts and documents in students; and to verify the work and present to the customer. The youth modeling of international and national processes and events, project laboratories, and cases obtained in the course of the study were presented in this work.