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Members:
| Vassiliki Kati (Chair) | University of Ioannina, Greece |
| Andrew Ramsey | University of Cumbria, UK |
| Adriana Vella | University of Malta, Malta |
| Martin Dieterich | University of Hohenheim/ Director of Singen Inst., Germany |
| Peter Gilchrist | Jacobs UK Ltd, UK |
| Renato Massa | University of Milan Bicocca, Italy |
Objective:
The ultimate aim of the Education Committee (EC) of the SCB-ES is to increase the level of conservation literacy in Europe at all levels.
To this end, the EC finds it necessary:
- to identify the key elements of conservation biology literacy;
- to develop strategies to target a wide range of audience, for example academics, school teachers, public administrators, politicians, practitioners and the general public;
- to investigate the state of current conservation biology teaching in Europe. To this end the EC started the task by collecting data from the following countries: U.K., France, Spain, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy. It is now planned to increase this network, ideally by finding a correspondent for every country. A meeting/workshop to this end is felt to be necessary at ECCB 2006;
- to develop a framework of learning outcomes for university curricula that can provide a common core and target level in conservation biology courses;
- to seek out ways of promoting excellence in conservation biology literacy within Europe, for example through the development of a website under the SCB-ES umbrella and to seek the necessary means to achieve this aim.
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