Long term Course Planning
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PE&RC long-term course planning
Note: If you have questions about the courses below, please contact Claudius van de Vijver (claudius.vandevijver@wur.nl), Lennart Suselbeek (Lennart.suselbeek@wur.nl), or Amber Heijboer (a.heijboer@uva.nl)
| Methodological Courses | Expected | Recurrence |
| Statistical Courses | ||
| Basic Statistics | May 2019 | Twice a year |
| Introduction to R for Statistical Analysis | 20 - 21 February 2019 | Twice a year |
| Linear Models | Spring 2019 | Yearly |
| Generalized Linear Models | Spring 2019 | Yearly |
| Mixed Linear Models | Spring 2019 | Yearly |
| Meta-analysis | Summer 2020 | Every two years |
| Multivariate Analysis | 30 April, 1, 2, 7 and 8 May 2019 | Yearly |
| Bayesian Statistics | Autumn 2019 | Yearly |
| Spatial sampling for mapping | Not yet determined | Every two or three years |
| Introduction to Zero-inflated models with R | Early 2021 | Every three years |
| Survival Analysis | 2019 | Every two or three years |
| Geostatistics | Early 2020 | Every two years |
| Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) | Early 2020 | Every two years |
| Design of Experiments | 19 - 21 December 2018 | Twice a year |
| Modelling Courses | ||
| The Art of Modelling (introductory course to modelling) | June 2020 | Every two years |
| The Art of Crop Modelling | Summer 2019 | Every three years |
| Machine learning for spatial data | Spring 2020 | Every two years |
| Modelling critical transitions in nature and society (coordinated by SENSE Research School) | Not yet determined | Every two or three years |
| Modelling population dynamics with Physiologically Structured Population Models (PSPM) | Not yet determined | Every two or three years |
| Statistical Uncertainty Analysis of Dynamic Models | December 2019 | Every two years |
| Uncertainty Propagation in spatial and environmental modelling | Winter 2020 | Every two years |
| Programming Courses | ||
| Dynamic models in R: Programming, parameter estimation and model selection | 8, 14, 15, 21, 22 March and 12 April 2019 | Every two years |
| GIS in Practice | 4 - 15 February 2019 | Every two years |
| Topical (in-depth) Courses (links to the latest edition of the courses) | Expected | Recurrence |
| International on-site courses (5) | ||
| Land Dynamics (last given as "Getting to the Bottom of Mount Kenya") | 2019 | Every three years |
| Biodiversity and Conservation (last given as "The Science of Conservation") | 2019 | Every three years |
| Human-Induced Land Degradation | 2019 | Every three years |
| Farming Systems and Rural Livelihoods | 2020 | Every two/three years |
| European Forest Ecology and Management (last given as "Conflicting demands in European Forests; a wicked problem?") | 2020 | Every two years |
| Resilience of living systems: From fundamental concepts to interdisciplinary applications | Spring 2021 | Every three years |
| Grasping Sustainability | 11 - 15 March 2019 | Every year |
| Linking Community and Ecosystem Dynamics | Autumn 2020 | Every two years |
| Companion Modelling | Spring 2019 | Every three years |
| Life History Theory | Spring 2020 | Every two years |
| Consumer-Resource Interactions | December 2021 | Every three years |
| Animal Movement Analysis | Summer 2019 | Every two years |
| Hands-on Digital Soil Mapping | 20 - 24 May 2019 (coordinated by ISRIC) | Yearly |
| World Soils and their Assessment | 20 - 24 May 2019 (coordinated by ISRIC) | Yearly |
| Chemical Communication | 2019 | Every three years |
| Environmental Signaling in Plants | Summer 2019 | Every two years |
| Fundamentals of Crop Physiology | Spring 2021 | Every three years |
| Climate-Smart Agriculture | 2019 | Every three years |
| Plant Nutrients in Terrestrial Ecosystems - acquisition and turnover (in collaboration with the University of Copenhagen) | Spring 2019 | Every Year |
| Tropical Forest Ecology and Management | Spring 2019 | Every three years |
| Aquatic Ecology | Spring 2021 | Every three years |
| Root Ecology | Summer 2019 | Every three years |
| Spatial Ecology | 2018 | Every three years |
| Soil Ecology | 27 - 31 January 2019 | Every three years |
| Theoretical Ecology | 2019 | Every three years |
| Disease Ecology | Autumn 2019 | Every three years |
| Frontiers in Microbial Ecology | Spring 2021 | Every three years |
| Advances in Agro-Ecology (last given as "Bugs at your service") | 31 March - 5 April 2019 | Every three years |
| Evolutionary Dynamics | To be determined | Every three years |
| Principles of Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics | Autumn 2021 | Every three years |