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

Applications for a temporary academic-­year

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The State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF), invites applications for a temporary academic-­year, non-­tenure-­track position as Visiting Assistant
Professor of Environmental Communication in the Department of Environmental Studies  for the 2017-­18 academic year.

This position is 50% teaching and 50% program support. Teaching load is 2-­‐2 and includes two Fall courses: Foundations of Environmental Communication and Mass Media & Environment, and two Spring courses: Environmental Communication Workshop and Environmental Risk Perception.

Program support includes advising students in the Master of Professional Studies graduate program; organizing and supervising students working on communication projects promoting ESF visibility; developing and overseeing undergraduate and graduate internships internal and external to ESF; assisting with graduate and undergraduate program assessment in Environmental Studies; participating on departmental and campus committees, as assigned; and assisting in developing and implementing strategies for undergraduate student recruitment in Environmental Studies.

Required Qualifications: Doctoral degree or ABD in Communication or related field. Focus in interdisciplinary environmental studies or environmental science programs.
Preferred Qualifications: Two or more years of college-­level teaching experience.
Application Deadline: Although applications will be accepted until the position is filled, candidates should submit their application by March 15, 2017 to assure optimal consideration.

Application Procedure: Applications are required to be submitted on-­line

Call for Senior Programme Officer – NWSAS Nexus Project Manager

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The Global Water Partnership – Mediterranean (GWP-Med) is seeking to hire a Senior Programme Officer – NWSAS Nexus Project Manager in the framework of the Project “Making Water Cooperation Happen in the Mediterranean” supported by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency.
Duty Station: Tunis, Tunisia
Duration: 3 years, annually renewable, with potential for expansion
Occupation: Full time engagement
Deadline for applications: 19 March 2017

More details about the Application and the Evaluation procedure can be found in the detailed Announcement that can be downloaded here.

Equator Prize 2017. Call for nominations

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The Equator Prize 2017 will be awarded to outstanding community and indigenous initiatives that are advancing nature-based solutions for local sustainable development.
The winners will join a prestigious network of 208 community-based organizations from 70 countries.
Each winning group will receive USD 10,000 and will be invited to participate in a series of policy dialogues and special events during the United Nations General Assembly in New York in September 2017.

Nominations may be submitted by 8 March 2017 in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Indonesian, Portuguese, Russian, or Spanish.

For more information visit the website.

Adopt a Delegate

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The 9th World Environmental Education Congress is proud to introduce the ‘Adopt a Delegate’ initiative, giving prospective delegates from a developed world setting the opportunity to adopt or part finance the registration and accommodation costs of a peer from low-income countries.

Delegates can support other delegates by donating any amount they feel appropriate during their own online registration process. To encourage co-ownership of the project, adopted (sponsored) delegates will carry financial responsibility for return travel to the Congress, while the donated money will be used to help offset costs for registration and/or accommodation.

With this initiative WEEC 2017 hopes to provide additional opportunities and set up a network with researchers and practitioners from all over the world attempting to help the sponsored delegate’s research both now and in the future.

We thank everyone for their support. All ‘sponsors’ will be acknowledged on the Congress website.

Support the campaign: World Environmental Education Day

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The worldwide network WEEC calls on the United Nations with all their organizations and agencies, governments, the local governments, the parks, museums, environmental education centers, associations, etc. to celebrate every year, on October 14, the World Day of environmental education.
On 14 October, in fact, is the starting day of the Intergovernmental Conference on Environmental Education (14 to 26 October 1977) organized by UNESCO and UNEP in Tbilisi, capital of Georgia.
The initiatives may coincide with October 14, but also take place in the period coinciding with the 1977 conference (until October 26).
The WEEC network also accepts initiatives that for organizational reasons take place in the days preceding or following that date, provided that they correspond to the spirit of celebrating the founding date of environmental education in the world.

https://weecnetwork.org/support-the-campaign-the-world-environmental-education-day/

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