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), Naomi Zweerus (naomi1.zweerus@wur.nl) or Miriam van Heist (miriam.vanheist@wur.nl).
| Methodological Courses | Expected | Recurrence |
| Statistical Courses | ||
| Basic Statistics | October 2022 | Twice a year |
| Linear Models | June 2023 | Annually |
| Generalized Linear Models | June 2023 | Annually |
| Mixed Linear Models | June 2023 | Annually |
| Meta-analysis | 2022 | Every two years |
| Multivariate Analysis | Spring 2023 | Annually |
| Bayesian Data Analysis | 27 - 30 June 2022 | Annually |
| Geostatistics | December 2023 | Every two years |
| Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) | October 2022 | Every two years |
| Design of Experiments | 26 - 28 January 2022 | Twice a year |
| Modelling Courses | ||
| The Art of Modelling (introductory course to modelling) | September 2023 | Every two years |
| The Art of Crop Modelling | November 2022 | Every three years |
| Companion Modelling | 2023 | Every two years |
| Introduction to Machine learning | 2023 | Every two years |
| Statistical Uncertainty Analysis of Dynamic Models | Spring 2024 | Every two years |
| Uncertainty Propagation in spatial and environmental modelling | 5 - 9 December 2022 | Every two years |
| Programming Courses | ||
| Introduction to R and R studio | 15, 18, 22, 25 November 2022 | Twice a year |
| Intermediate Programming in R | 2023 | Annually |
| Dynamic models in R: Programming, parameter estimation and model selection | 2023 | Every two years |
| Tidy data transformation and visualization with R | 5, 8, 12, 15 July 2022 | Annually |
| Introduction to Zero-inflated models with R | Winter 2024 | Every three years |
| Other Methodological Courses | ||
| Hands-on Digital Soil Mapping | May 2022 | Annually |
| GIS in Practice | 5 September - 21 October 2022 | Every two years |
| R and Big Data | 2023 | Every two years |
| World Soils and their Assessment | May 2022 | Annually |
| Genome Assembly | October 2022 | Every two years |
| Topical (in-depth) Courses (links to the latest edition of the courses) | Expected | Recurrence |
| Advances in Agro-Ecology (last given as "Bugs at your service") | March 2023 | Every three years |
| Advances in Intercropping | January 2023 | Every two years |
| Animal Movement Analysis | Summer 2022 | Every three years |
| Aquatic Ecology | 2 - 7 April 2023 | Every three years |
| Chemical Communication | 2023 | Every three years |
| Climate-Smart Agriculture | Not yet determined | Every three years |
| Consumer-Resource Interactions | 2022 | Every three years |
| Crop Physiology (and Climate Change) | May 2024 | Every two years |
| Environmental Signaling in Plants | 29 - 31 August 2022 | Every two years |
| Grasping Sustainability | March 2022 | Annually |
| Life History Theory | To be determined | Every two years |
| Linking Community and Ecosystem Dynamics | 17 - 22 April 2022 | Every two years |
| Microbial Ecology | 19 - 24 June 2022 | Every three years |
| Participatory Plant Breeding & Resilient Seed Systems | December 2022 | Every two years |
| Principles of Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics | 2024 | Every three years |
| Resilience of living systems | Summer 2023 | Every three years |
| Root Ecology | 2023 | Every three years |
| Soil Ecology | 2025 | Every three years |
| Spatial Ecology | Not yet determined | Every three years |
| Theoretical Ecology | 10 - 14 October 2022 | Every three years |
| Tropical Ecology and Management | Not yet determined | Every three years |
| International on-site courses (courses held in specific countries) | ||
| Farming Systems and Rural Livelihoods | 2023 | Every two/three years |
| Land Dynamics in an Era of Change | 6 - 15 March 2023 | Every three years |
| Human-Induced Land Degradation | 2023 | Every three years |
| The Science of Conservation | 2024 | Every three years |
| European Forest Ecology and Management | September 2023 | Every two years |