Workshops, symposium and training programmes for capacity building at various levels are:

•  Lake 2006: Symposium on Environment Education and Ecosystem Conservation, 28-30 th December 2006 , Rustom Choksi Hall, Indian Institute of Science

•  Course on Environment Management for in-service working professionals, August-December 2006, Proficience, Centre for Continuing Education, IISc

•  Environment Awareness Workshop, 14-15 th July 2006 , K K English High School , Varthur

•  One day ‘Ecology workshop', 18 th March 2006 , St. Joseph English School , Whitefield

•  Course on Environment Management for in-service working professionals, January – May 2006, Proficience, Centre for Continuing Education, IISc

•  Round table meeting ‘Environmental education in India ' 12-13 th Feb 2006 , CES Seminar Hall, IISc

•  One day ‘Ecology Workshop', 16 th February 2006 , Satya Sai Residential school, Muddenahalli, Kolar

•  Course on Environment Management for in-service working professionals, August-December 2005, Proficience, Centre for Continuing Education, IISc

•  QIP Short term course on “GIS and Remote Sensing Applications in Environmental Management”, 12 th to 18 th August 2005 at CCE seminar hall, IISc (Sponsored by AICTE)

•  Three Days ‘Green Workshop' , 3- 5 th June 2005 , K K English High School , Varthur

•  Lake 2004, International Conference on Conservation, Restoration & Management of Lakes and Coastal Wetlands, Behrampur University , Orissa

•  Short term course on “Environmental Management” 12 th to 17 th May 2003, at SDM College of Engineering, Dharwad.

•  Lake 2002, International Symposium on Conservation, Restoration and Management of Aquatic ecosystems, 9-13 th December 2002, Satish Dhawan Auditorium, IISc http://wgbis.ces.iisc.ernet.in/energy/water20/Lake2002.html

•  Know Your Ecosystem - Johny Biosphere, 2 - 8 th Dec 2002 (organised at 10 schools).

•  Know your Ecosystem – school children, April 20-21, 2002 , Rustom Choksi Hall, IISc. http://wgbis.ces.iisc.ernet.in/energy/finance/2001/welcome.html

•  LIMGIS 2001- Winter School in"Essentials in Limnology and GIS", CES Seminar Hall, IISc, 5-13th December 2001

http://wgbis.ces.iisc.ernet.in/energy/monograph

•  Hands on training in Spatial and Temporal tools (GIS,GPS and remote Sensing) for Engineering College teachers, CES Conference Room, IISc Campus, 29th Sept to 2nd Oct 2001 .

•  Lake 2000, Symposium on Restoration of Lakes and Wetlands, CSIC Auditorium, IISc, Nov 27-29, 2000. http://wgbis.ces.iisc.ernet.in/energy/water/lake2000conference.html

•  Know Your Ecosystem - Johny Biosphere, 24th Nov - 10th Dec 2000 (organised at 10 schools). http://wgbis.ces.iisc.ernet.in/energy/finance/2000/welcome.html

•  Discussion meeting at Kolar - Integrated Energy Planning using GIS, May 25, 2000 .

•  Energy Alternatives 2000 - Exhibition on Renewable energy technologies, 24-25, June 2000., Mahila Seva Samaja, Kolar

Information System developed at ENVIS centre, CES, IISc (through Summer research fellows and summer trainees)

http://wgbis.ces.iisc.ernet.in/biodiversity/database/database.htm

Establishment of Sahyadri Eco Clubs (with regular monthly seminars and field activities) at

K K English High School , Varthur

St. Joseph English School , Whitefield (since 2004)

Environmental Engineering Courses: Rapid industrialisation of developing countries has led to a shortage of engineering personnel at all levels, including the industrial sector and in the infrastructure management. As engineers play a key role in the process of development, the World Federation of Engineering Organisations came up with its proposal for the World Engineering Partnership for Sustainable Development. This necessitated the design and development of Environmental Engineering Courses in Self Learning Format, taking advantage of recent developments in Information Technology, so that the Courses could be taught in distance mode. Recognising this need, COL-IISC ( Commonwealth of Learning , Canada – Indian Institute of Science , India ) developed Series of Learning Materials in environmental engineering for teaching environmental engineering professionals through ODL. The courses with student relevant examples were directed at practicing professionals in India and the developing Commonwealth countries for continuous professional development . Based on the analysis of target audience, instructional goals and objectives, and desired course content for India , an outline of the content was created, which was reviewed by a committee of content and instructional design experts. The development of five environmental engineering courses 6-10 included formative evaluation by a project review committee and electronic list discussions. The summative evaluation included validation and pilot testing and brainstorm sessions to ascertain the suitability of materials to meet the project goals and objectives. The five environmental engineering courses were revised based on the suggestions from validation and pilot testing exercises. The courses are being offered through ODL at Indian Institute of Science and the details are available at

http://wgbis.ces.iisc.ernet.in/energy/DistanceEducationCourses/index.htm

Environmental Education Modules for School Children and Teachers : In this context, based on the need assessment (in consultation with the teachers and administrators), IISc in collaboration with COL developed the 15 self learning environment education modules (ecology, energy, environment, water, etc.) during 2002-2005. Evaluation and pilot testing was done to ascertain the suitability of materials to meet the goals and objectives of the endeavor.