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Call for interest to host the 11th WEEC Congress

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

Application for Core Visiting Assistant Professor

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)​

Applications for a temporary academic-­year

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

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

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.

Science Centre World Summit 2017: call for a proposal is open

The call for session proposals for The Science Centre World Summit (SCWS) is now open for a month!
The SCWS is a global meeting of professionals of science centres/museums and their networks from around the world, convened once every three years. The second Summit will be held in 2017 in Tokyo, Japan, hosted by Miraikan and countries in the Asia and Pacific region.

The SCWS offers an opportunity for science centres/museums to discuss their strategies for their new roles in society. At this Summit, representatives of participating science centres / museums will have discussions with scientists and educators as well as other stakeholders in society, including policymakers, industry and citizens communities, and build varied partnerships to create new approach to global issues followed by concrete actions.

For more information visit the website

Call for partners for an ESD project

Urgent call to the ENSI community in search for a partner school to cooperate in an ESD project within the “Sparkling Science”, a programme of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science to strengthen the collaboration between research and education.

The working title of the project is “Virtual Reality as extended learning environment  for transformative education”. The deadline for the proposal is 30th September 2016.

For details see here or write to christian.rammel@wu.ac.at