Banja Luka University team at RM@Schools 4.0 project has got an excellent addition recently. A young expert, a repatriate from Japan, Dragana STEVIĆ who holds a master’s degree in chemical engineering and technology, has joined our team. Dragana is a young mother and expert who spent 6 years in Japan, as a researcher in the field of carbon nanomaterials at Shinshu University, Nagano. The University of Banja Luka has a memorandum of understanding with this Japanese University and plenty of joint publications.
Dragana has held her first “Train the trainer” session within the RM@Schools 4.0 project, aimed at young ecologists/biologists who will soon be able to spread the word and become RM ambassadors themselves. The subject taught this time was about the excellent waste management system in Japan about which Dragana could speak first-hand due to her experience. She has shown the best practice in the daily waste recycling systems in Japan as well as some examples of how Japan has resolved some of their horrific pollution problems in the past. Students could also see the data obtained by the Japanese international cooperation agency (JICA) study of Bosnian post-industrial pollution sites. Young attends are soon to become teachers in elementary schools or to get employed as government workers or even in non-governmental organizations dedicated to the environment. They will be able to transfer their practical knowledge in sustainable waste material recycling to their pupils in the future. This subject is extremely important for Bosnia and Herzegovina. Despite being very rich in diverse natural recourses, unfortunately, the recycle chain is not developed to the satisfying levels yet, neither in industry nor in households. Young people need to hold a crucial role in its development.
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