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) or Miriam van Heist (miriam.vanheist@wur.nl).
| Methodological Courses | Expected | Recurrence |
| Statistical Courses | ||
| Basic Statistics | December 2023 | Twice a year |
| Linear Models | To be determined | Annually |
| Generalized Linear Models | To be determined | Annually |
| Mixed Linear Models | To be determined | Annually |
| Meta-Analysis | 2025 | Every two years |
| Multivariate Analysis | February 2024 | Annually |
| Bayesian Statistics | June 2024 | Annually |
| Geostatistics | 4 - 8 December 2023 | Every two years |
| Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) | January 2025 | Every two years |
| Design of Experiments | To be determined | Twice a year |
| Modelling Courses | ||
| Essentials of Modelling | To be determined | Every two years |
| The Art of Modelling (introductory course to modelling) | To be determined | Every two years |
| The Art of Crop Modelling | To be determined | Every three years |
| Companion Modelling | To be determined | Every two years |
| Introduction to Machine learning | 2023 | Every two years |
| Statistical Uncertainty Analysis of Dynamic Models | 2024 | Every two years |
| Uncertainty Propagation in Spatial Environmental Modelling | 2024 | Every two years |
| Programming Courses | ||
| Introduction to R and R studio | 10, 13, 17, 20 October 2023 | Twice a year |
| Intermediate Programming in R | 1, 5, 8 and 12 December 2023 | Annually |
| Dynamic models in R: Programming, parameter estimation and model selection | To be determined | Every two years |
| Tidy data transformation and visualization with R | 7, 10, 14, 17 November 2023 | Annually |
| Introduction to Zero-inflated models with R | 2024 | Every three years |
| Other Methodological Courses | ||
| Hands-on Digital Soil Mapping | May 2022 | Annually |
| GIS in Practice | Autumn 2024 | Every two years |
| R and Big Data | To be determined | Every two years |
| World Soils and their Assessment | To be determined | Annually |
| Genome Assembly | To be determined | Every two years |
| Towards FAIR Data Management | To be determined | Annually |
| Topical (in-depth) Courses (links to the latest edition of the courses) | Expected | Recurrence |
| Insects and ecosystem services | To be determined | Every three years |
| Advances in Intercropping | To be determined | Every two years |
| Animal Movement Analysis | 2024 | Every three years |
| Aquatic Ecology | To be determined | Every three years |
| Chemical Communication | To be determined | Every three years |
| Climate-Smart Agriculture | To be determined | Every three years |
| Consumer-Resource Interactions | 2024 | Every three years |
| Crop Physiology (and Climate Change) | 2024 | Every two years |
| Environmental Signaling in Plants | To be determined | Every two years |
| Grasping Sustainability | March 2023 | Annually |
| Life History Theory | To be determined | Every two years |
| Linking Community and Ecosystem Dynamics | 2024 | Every two years |
| Microbial Ecology | 2025 | Every three years |
| Participatory plant breeding and Seed Systems | 2025 | Every two years |
| Principles of Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics | 2024 | Every three years |
| Resilience of living systems | 2026 | Every three years |
| Root Ecology | 19 - 24 November 2023 | Every three years |
| Soil Ecology | 2025 | Every three years |
| Spatial Ecology | 2024 | Every three years |
| Theoretical Ecology | To be determined | Every three years |
| International on-site courses (courses held in specific countries) | ||
| Farming Systems and Rural Livelihoods | April 2024 | Every two/three years |
| Land Dynamics in an Era of Change | 2026 | Every three years |
| Human-Induced Land Degradation | To be determined | Every three years |
| The Science of Conservation | 2024 | Every three years |
| Forest Management and Biodiversity across Europe | To be determined | Every two years |
| African roads to Sustainable Agroecology | June 2024 | Every two years |