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PE-RC Messages  

Number 8 - Year 2011

August  2011

 Contents

  1. PE-RC PhD courses

  2. Skills and competences courses by Wageningen Graduate Schools(WGS)

  3. PE-RC Day

  4. PE-RC weekend

  5. Other courses

  6. Symposia, Lectures, Workshops, Seminars and other activities

  7. Position Announcements

  8. Others

1. PE-RC PhD courses   

2. Skills and competences courses organized by Wageningen Graduate School (WGS). For more information please click here

    
     Wageningen UR Library soon organises the following courses/demonstrations:

-      8 September, Wageningen UR Digital Library Introduction, 09.00-09.45, room 460, Forum Library (free)

-      13 September, Wageningen UR Digital Library Introduction, 16.00-16.45, room C70, Leeuwenborch (free)

-      14 September, EndNote Web Demonstration Session, 12.30-13.00, room C8, Chemistry building (free)

-      15 September, EndNote X4 Demonstration Session, 12.30-13.00, room C30, Alterra (Gaia) (free)

-      20 September, Your Personal Information Dashboard Demonstration Session, 12.30-13.00, room C8, Chemistry building (free)

-      21 September, Working with EndNote X4, 09.00-12.30, room 460, Forum Library (100 euros)

-      22 September, Google better with Google Demonstration Session, 12.30-13.00, room C30, Alterra (Gaia) (free)

-      27 September, Citation Analysis for Staff, 09.00-12.30, room 460, Forum Library (100 euros)

-      28 September, EndNote Lunch Meeting, 12.30-13.30, room 460, Forum Library (free)

Registering for the free demonstrations is not necessary, except for the EndNote Lunch Meeting. More information about the courses/demonstrations.
To register for a course is possible by inserting an order in EBS-intern. All library courses can be found in the catalogue. 
 

3.  PE-RC day 2011  Innovation for Sustainability: What are the neighbours doing?  (Thursday 20 October 2011) 
     Hotel Hof van Wageningen - Wageningen The Netherlands.

The world today faces major global problems, for instance: an energy crisis, environmental pollution, resource depletion, and food shortages. Sustainable solutions are needed to solve these global issues. Wageningen UR focuses a great deal of its research on developing sustainable solutions to solve these problems, addressing the issues from an ecological, agronomic and socio-economic perspective, much of which is known to us. However, the question is what other scientific disciplines outside the realm of Wageningen UR are doing to face the global problems. In other words the question is: What are the neighbours doing?

This is where the theme of the PE-RC day comes in: Innovation for Sustainability: what are the neighbours doing? For this day we have invited (inter)national speakers who work on  sustainability issues from a different scientific perspective. Besides the presentations, we finalize the day with a central panel discussion about how we can learn from each other in solving the global issues more effectively.  For more information please click here  For registration please click here.
4.  PE-RC Weeend  (Friday 10, Zaterdag 11, Zondag 13 November 2011)  Stay Okay, Dorwerth
      Pogramme and registration follows soon.

5. Others courses

  • From Scarcity to Access and Rights: Changing Perspectives on Food Insecurity (28 – 30 September 201)
    Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM), University of Oslo, Norway - For more information please click     here

  • The good, the bad and the ugly bacteria (9-15 October 2011) Aarhus University - Denmark. For more information please click here

  • PhD supervisors course (WGS) Effective Leadership styles: A practical course for PhD supervisors (with actor)
         Dr. E. Cocheret de la Morinière  Dates 15 November and 6 December 2011 and a 1-hour personal coaching session on 22 or 29 November 2011 For more information please click here.

  • EPS Autumn School 2011 'Host-Microbe Interactomics' (1 – 3 November 2011) Hotel - Congress Centre 'Hof van Wageningen', Lawickse Allee 9, 6701 AN Wageningen, The Netherlands. Registration details - course fees: click here. deadline for registration September 30, 2011

6. Symposia, Lectures, Workshops and Seminars

  • The neutral theory of biodiversity (5 September 2011) University of Groningen. For more information or registration please contact: r.s.etienne@rug.nl or click here.

  • Navigating complex socio-environmental processes:a serious but fun introduction to the basics of complexity Convened by: Luis García Barrios PhD. Senior Researcher at ECOSUR, Chiapas, Mexico. Tuesday 6 September (13:00-18:00) and Thursday 8 September (9:00-17:00)   Atlas 3 - Atlas Building - Wageningen University . For more information please click here.

  • Workshop on a new “Plant Facility” in Wageningen Wednesday (7 September 2011) Wageningen Campus, Gaia Building (Droevendaalsesteeg 3) Time: 14:00 – 17:00 -  Participation is free of charge. For registration, please send an email to Antoinette.Stoffers@wur.nl .   See poster

  • Dutch Network of PhD Students 3rd Remote Sensing Symposium (RSS): "21st Century Challenges" 8 September 2011 Hotel de Nieuwe Wereld (Marijkeweg 5, Wageningen) For information and registration click here

  • Seminar around the theme of Competing Claims on Natural Resources - At the occasion of the graduation of Chrispen Murungweni and Frédéric Baudron - Radix West building, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, Wageningen, room W 0.1 Thursday 8 September from 14.30 to 17.00

  • Introduction to participatory socio-environmental games and simulations Tuesday 13 September (9:00-17:00) and Thursday 15 September (9:00-17:00) Atlas 3 - Atlas Building - Wageningen University For more information please click here

  • R Users Meeting - R basic introduction: prepare, check - clean a data base in  building - 22 September 16.00 - 17.00 - Wageningen University Campus - C30 = A201 (Gaia, 2nd floor), followed by drinks in Forum.  For more information please click here

  • The USE Biological Traits in Ecology (12-23 September, 2011) Department of Life Sciences – University of Coimbra. For more information please click here

  • John Ingram of the Environmental Change Institute (Oxford University) will be defending his thesis at Wageningen University (3 October 2011) at 11:00 in the Aula entitled: From Food Production to Food Security: Developing interdisciplinary, regional-level research (promotor Prof. dr. ir. Rudy Rabbinge).
    Those interested are more than welcome. Zie     abstract.

7. Position Announcements

  • Post doctoral position in Bioinformatics applied on targeted metagenomics - Lunds University - For more information please click here

  • Postdoctoral Position: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services - Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center.  For more information please click here. or see

8. Others

  • Groene Golflengte (5-11 September 2011) Een evenement over de toekomst van natuur en landschap. Alterra steekt veel energie in de organisatie: het openingsdebat, 8 masterclasses en een tentoonstelling zijn enkele voorbeelden van de door ons georganiseerde onderdelen van dit meerdaagse evenement voor alle professionals in het vakgebied. Wij hopen met dit evenement de almaar verder polariserende discussie over dit vakgebied een podium te bieden waarna de diverse partijen gezamenlijk verder kunnen.   Kijk voor het programma op www.groenegolflengte.nl

  • FLM Scholarship (17th - 26th october 2011) School of Management International Office - Universidad Veracruzana -Veracruz, Mexico . For more information please click here

  • The Indonesian Ministry of National Education (MoNE), in particular the Directorate General of Higher Education (DIKTI), has several scholarship and grant schemes in place as part of the effort to increase the capacity of lecturers at state and private universities in Indonesia. The funding provides for degree studies abroad (MA and PhD), Post-docs, and joint research.
    Nuffic Neso Indonesia has published information on these funding schemes on the website. We would like to particularly draw your attention to the new funding scheme that will provide for 50 PhD’s annually on a co-sharing basis for Dutch Institutions. In this scheme, DIKTI will finance 3 years of PhD research in the Netherlands if the candidate is nominated by a Dutch professor (no additional selection requirements by DIKTI) and if the Dutch university is willing to finance the final year.     For more information please click here.
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