Alumni Seminars

Place:

La Plata, Argentina

Date:

22/09/2024 – 28/09/2024

Title:

Designed as a cross-country learning exchange, this regional alumni seminar will look at environmental development problems across Latin America from an interdisciplinary and actor-oriented perspective. It addresses scientists and practitioners from Latin America, working in universities, research organizations, state administration, civil society organizations, the corporate sector and development agencies having a stake in environmental and natural resources management, including land, water, forest and biodiversity and other relevant fields. The seminar provides opportunities to strengthening capacities on integrative and actor-oriented management and governance concepts through scientific exchange, intensive discussions and practice-oriented field excursions. Beyond joint learning, the seminar aims at consolidating and expanding relationships and partnerships among the alumni in Latin America within and across disciplines, sectors, organizations and countries.

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Place:

Tharandt, Germany

Date:

Title:

Assessing actors’ power and their interests for sustainable land-use development and governance in the Global South

Next to the strategic development, the workshop offers further education opportunities through practice-oriented excursions in the surrounding area of Dresden. Thematically, the focus follows the integrative and stakeholder-oriented management concepts of the two former workshops. The workshop seeks to further consolidate coordination mechanisms and to develop an agenda/roadmap for the alumni network with potential activities in the years to come.

Alumni Seminar Booklet 2023, Tharandt (PDF Download)

Place:

Kampala, Uganda

Date:

05/03/2023 – 11/03/2023

Title:

Enabling services from land and water resources through actor-oriented forest landscape restoration: Tools and best practice

A watershed is chosen as a case study for East Africa, where severe land use conflicts are occurring between agricultural use, conservation of protected forest and intensive grazing, and informal charcoal extraction. Land use dynamics are directly at the expense of dry forests and tree and bush vegetation, and indirectly at the expense of the water balance. Directly linked to this are negative socio-ecological impacts for the local residents. Through keynotes, poster presentations, simulation games, and a 2-day field trip, a participatory and practice-oriented technical exchange is aimed at.

Alumni Seminar Booklet 2023, Uganda (PDF Download)
Regional East Africa alumni capacity building and networking seminar held at Makarere University, Uganda / Blog article

Place:

Vientiane, Laos

Date:

25/09/2022 – 01/10/2022

Title:

Tools for actor-based management of conflicting interests in the land-water forest nexus in the Mekong region

This seminar will serve as training and professional exchange on integrative and actor-based management concepts for the sustainable management of natural resources at the landscape level, against the background of growing conflicts of use in the regional context of Southeast Asia. Practical experience is gained through field excursions and dialogue with landscape-based actors at different governance scales in the Mekong Region.

First regional alumni capacity building and networking seminar held in Vientiane, Lao PDR / Blog article

Alumni Seminar Booklet 2023, Tharandt (PDF Download)