Heating Energy and Rural Households in Armenia

About the Event: 

The AUA Acopian Center for the Environment, the University of Hohenheim, and GIZ are jointly organizing public talks on the “Heating Energy and Rural Households in Armenia.” The event will feature presentations by Alyssa Bougie, University of Hohenheim, and Siranush Galstyan, GIZ, ECOserve Environmental Programme, as well as a Q&A session.

If you are interested, feel free to join the event. 

About the Speakers: 

Alyssa Bougie is a graduate landscape ecology student from the University of Hohenheim. She completed her thesis within the GAtES project. Bougie is passionate about cross-cultural research on climate, biodiversity, and social justice, and is particularly interested in exploring how people can work with nature for the betterment of society. She loves working with participatory approaches that can provide insight on people’s beliefs and thoughts. Since completing her thesis, Bougie has moved to Canada’s North, where she has put her passion to work, facilitating community conservation planning with Indigenous peoples.

Siranush Galstyan has been working in international cooperation for more than 15 years in the fields of natural resource management, biodiversity, forests, and related fields. At present, as an advisor in GIZ’s ECOserve environmental programme, she deals with the topics of energy in rural areas linked to the use of natural resources with particular focus on protection of forests. She has MSc in environmental sciences and policy, and has also completed the Klaus Toepfer Fellowship Programme for nature conservation professionals and leaders.

Language: English with Armenian simultaneous translation