From:    "Prof. Walter Leal Filho" 
Subject: International Symposium: Higher Education for Sustainable Regional
         Development

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Walter Leal Filho


International Symposium: Higher Education for Sustainable Regional
Development

The Symposium will be held from May 17 to 19 at SchloČ Seggau (Seggau
Castle) in  the vine growing region of Southern Styria, Austria.

The event  is meant to contribute to the discussion about education for
sustainable regional development. It will focus on higher (academic)
education, although the discussion is also relevant for other levels of
training. It is the objective of the symposium to intensify the exchange
of ideas about sustainable regional development education as well as to
suggest innovative ways to improve education in this field and to
initiate international co-operation in order to prepare students
optimally for their tasks of implementing sustainable development on the
regional level.

The Symposium will feature a number of short oral presentations and
allow for intensive discussions in workshops. The first day will be
dedicated to the comparison between different curricula for bachelor,
masters and doctoral studies. The workshops at the end of this day will
deal with the questions concerning the necessary goals and content of
curricula in this field.
The second day will be dedicated to innovative teaching methods and new
forms of organisation for sustainable regional development studies. The
workshops on this day will evaluate these new approaches regarding their
capability to prepare students for their complex tasks in implementing
sustainable regional development. They will also discuss possibilities
of international co-operation in this field.

In order to allow for effective discussion during the Symposium,
proceedings will be prepared summarising the most important messages of
the contributions. The discussions at the symposium will be evaluated
and summarised in due course after the meeting and will form the core of
an internet discussion panel on this topic.

The Symposium will be jointly organised by ENSURE
(http://www.european.association.org) SUSTAIN(http://scc.co.at/sustain)
and "Haus der Region Feldbach". The Advisory Board of ENSURE acts as
scientific committee for the Symposium. The local organisation will be
in the hands of SUSTAIN. Participants will stay at the castle itself,
the enchanting surrounding will add to the atmosphere of the Symposium.

For further information, please contact:
Sibylle Braunegg
SUSTAIN
Inffeldgasse 21
A 8010 Graz
Tel: +43-316-873-7465, Fax: +43-316-873-7469
e-mail: braunegg@glvt.tu-graz.ac.at

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