Call for interest to host the 11th WEEC Congress

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Volunteers 8WEEC, Sweden 2015. Photos by: Saman Nazari, Fotokooperativet

Are you interested to host the next WEEC Congress in 2021?
The World Environment Education Congress is a permanent meeting point for EE actors to share knowledge, contact and best practices. Since 2003, each two years, the WEEC Permanent Secretariat, in collaboration with local partner, organizes congress which attracts thousands of people worldwide.
The pillars of the congress are embedded in the tradition of the WEECs and in the characteristics of the environmental education whose success depends on its inclusive, cross-sectorial and multicultural approach.
You are invited to join the next congress in Vancouver (BC, Canada) from 9th to 15thSeptember 2017 and take the opportunity to meet the International Secretariat.

For detailed information please write to secretariat@weecnetwork.org

9WEEC, Call for volunteers

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8WEEC Volunteers, photos by Saman Nazari

The Local Organizing Committee of the 9th WEEC 2017 is calling for volunteers to assist and participate during the Congress.
This is a unique opportunity to make a contribution to the community, meet like-minded people as well as the leading experts environmental education.

If you are interested in volunteering at this prestigious Congress, please complete the application questions. Upon confirmation of your availability, you will be provided with a volunteer training manual. To learn more about the roles and how to apply please visit here.

Why should you volunteer? Because ii it a unique opportunity to make a contribution to the community and get an insider’s view on being part of an event.
In return for volunteer services WEEC 2017 gladly offers the following benefits: complimentary beverage during volunteer shifts, complimentary Congress registration after completion of 12 hours of volunteering, a Certificate of Participation.

Volunteer roles include: preparation of Congress Bags, greeter/host for Congress venue, directional assistance at the Congress Venue, session room/speaker podium assistant, registration desk representative, exhibit area and poster session representative.

You are required to commit to a total of 12 hours of volunteering, agree to wear black shoes, pants/skirt and a volunteer T-Shirt (Shirt provided by the Congress), speak fluently in English.

Thank you for your support!

9WEEC 2017, Save the date

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The 9th WEEC (World Environmental Education Congress) will be held in Vancouver, Canada, in September 9-15 2017. The title will be Culturenvironment: Weaving new connections

In consideration of themes and programming for the proposed 2017 congress the local organizing committee envisions a broad and inclusive view of topics on environmental and sustainability education that will highlight the impact of urban ecosystems and local, place based initiatives that can be translated into practices on a global scale. Of particular interest is the interplay among cultural and environmental factors which are at play in a region such as British Columbia.

During the Congress will be pursued themes as: Local Outdoor Learning, Greenest City Projects, Place-Based Learning, First Peoples Epistemologies, Urban Ecosystems, Cultural Diversity, Systems Thinking/Complexity, Aesthetics and Artistic Expres, Social Responsibility as Pedagogy, Moral Development and Environmental Ethics, Innovations in Research/Development, Communicating in a Climate of Uncertainty.

See you in Vancouver! Registration is open here

9WEEC, Save up to 20% on travel with Star Alliance Network

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The Star Alliance member airlines has been appointed as the Official Airline Network for 9th World Environmental Education Congress in Vancouver (BC, Canada -9 to 15 september 2017).

To obtain the Star Alliance Conventions Plus discounts please visit the online booking tool.

Registered Event participants plus one accompanying person travelling to the Event qualify for a discount of up to 20%, depending on fare and class of travel booked. The Conventions Plus code is applicable for flights to Vancouver, BC from 26-Aug-2017 to 29-Sep-2017.

The following Star Alliance airlines are offering special discounts for travel to/from Japan: Special Offers for Japan are available from: Turkish Airlines, Air New Zealand.

To obtain these discounts for travel to/from Japan please contact the respective Star Alliance member airlines’ booking office. Contact details can be found here under “Conventions Plus Booking Contacts”. Please quote the following Event code AC12S17 for ticket reservation.

Wishes for the 9WEEC Congress

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Many organizations and institutions support the WEEC Congress and come the first greetings from those who can not participate directly in the next edition, that to be held in September in Vancouver.
Among these we point out the wishes of Portugal and Switzerland who wrote to the Permanent Secretariat to stress the importance of events such as the WEEC Congress.

Ines Ferreira Alves, Head of Gabinet of the Portugues Ministry of environment writes:
“I do believe that the 9th World Environmental Education Congress, under the trasversal theme Culture/Environment will be a success and will provide a great opportunity to give notice about the importance of the interlinkages between both sectors, issues that have really a universal common and fruitful interst for all”.

And Doris Leuthard, Federal Councillor from the Head of the Federal Department of Environment, Transport, Energy and communication UVEK, Switzerland: “I am convinced that education for the environment is an important task as our economies are turning green and face many political, technical but also behavioral challanges. Such a transition needs the involvement of all the stakeholders and the WEEC congresses contribute to it. I wish you and the organizers the best success in your endeavour to address, in 2017, the interplay between cultural and environmental factors towards sustainable development”.

Application for Core Visiting Assistant Professor

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The Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences at Boston College invites applications for the position of Core Visiting Assistant Professor/Core Renewal Fellow in Environmental Studies. The appointment for this one-year postdoctoral visiting assistant professorship will be for the 2017–2018 academic year. Salary is competitive, and the position is potentially renewable. As a Jesuit, Catholic institution, Boston College requires all students to complete a fifteen-course liberal arts Core Curriculum as the foundation of their undergraduate education. Core Visiting Assistant Professors will teach signature courses in the Core. Developed for first-year students, these interdisciplinary Complex Problems and Enduring Questions courses are part of an ongoing revitalization of the Core Curriculum. You can learn more about BC’s Core Renewal here.

In one semester, the visiting assistant professor will teach project-based lab sections associated with a Complex Problems course, “Global Implications of Climate Change,” co-taught by faculty from Sociology and Earth and Environmental Studies. In the other semester, he/she will teach two courses: an Enduring Questions course (paired with a second course designed with another Core visiting professor from Science and Technology Studies) and an elective in his/her field.
The full application can be found here 

​Questions should be directed to Brian Gareau (gareau@bc.edu)​

Support the Bat Congress

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The Second Latin American and Caribbean Bat Congress (COLAM), will be held at the Hotel Decameron (El Salvador) during the dates of November 20-23, 2017.
It is being convened by the Latin American and Caribbean Network for Bats Conservation (RELCOM), The Bat Conservation Program of El Salvador (PCMES) and Asociación Territorios Vivos El Salvador (ATVES).
COLAM has been conceived by RELCOM as the main international forum for scientific exchange and dialogue on bat conservation experiences in the region, which is developed every three years. On August 2014 in Quito, Ecuador, El Salvador was chosen to host the Second COLAM. The slogan of this second congress is “A decade for the conservation of bats” as a commemoration of the 10 years of hard work for benefits of bats in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Support the Congress .The support will be used to reduce the costs of the event and the participants, especially those from students of the region.

First Circular IICOLAM 2017 EN

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