Training courses will provide opportunities for registered delegates to receive expert training on a topic relevant for conservation. Courses will take place before the start of the congress: on day 0 (22nd August 2022, Monday) for 1 day long courses, and on day -1 and 0 (Sunday and Monday) for two day long courses. All training session organisers, tutors and participants must be registered for the meeting. There will be an additional fee for attending a training session in addition to the conference registration fee.
The fee includes course participation, printed course materials (if any), 2 coffee breaks and the lunch in employee dining hall (CZU canteen).
The organizers reserve the right to cancel any
course which, one month before the conference, will not have enough
participants to cover the costs.
(Organized by: Leejiah Dorward, Bangor University)
Date and time: Monday, August 22, start at 9:00 a.m., end around 5:00 p.m.
Where:
Faculty of Economics and Management building (PEF) in its new part of
building, second entrance (50.1312008N, 14.3736703E – it is a red
building situated on the main street of the Campus), room D 226 (first floor).
What you will need:
Participants will need their own laptop with Microsoft Excel, Wi-Fi access will be provided. Device with android (phone or tablet) is recommended.
The course aims to introduce participants to paperless data collection using the free to use ODK and KoBoToolbox systems. The course will outline the benefits of paperless, over traditional paper, data collection and provide participants with practical experience in the design and implementation of ODK forms using KoBoToolbox. By the end of the course participants will have the required skills and experience to conduct their own basic surveys using ODK and KoBoToolbox.
Conservation research and practice often entails the collection of complex data sets across a wide array of environments. ODK and KoBoToolbox offer a suite of free open-source applications designed for fast, efficient and secure paperless data collection in a range of environments. These tools allow for collection of an array of different types of data (text, multiple choice, GPS, audio, photos etc) using mobile phones or computers in online and offline environments. While primarily used for collecting questionnaire data, these tools are equally well suited to the recording of ecological data.
The course will cater for participants from a range of disciplines and is aimed at those with no prior experience of ODK or KoBoToolbox. Over one day, we will provide all the information required for attendees to start using these tools on their own. The course will cover: 1. How to write complex forms using KoboToolbox form builder and XLSForms; 2. Deploying forms to collect data online or offline with mobile devices, or via internet browsers; 3. Managing, accessing and downloading data from servers. There will also be time set aside to offer bespoke support and advice to participants with existing projects that they wish to use with KoBoToolbox or ODK.
PRICE: 1000 CZK (approx. 40 EUR)
(Organized by: Gábor Lövei)
Date and time: Monday, August 22, start at 9:00 a.m., end around 5:00 p.m.
Where: Faculty of Economics and Management building (PEF) in its new part of building, second entrance (50.1312008N, 14.3736703E – it is a red building situated on the main street of the Campus), room D 232 (first floor).
What you will need:
Participants will need their own laptop, Wi-Fi access will be provided.
Effective communication, by conservation biologists within and outside the discipline is rightly considered important by SCB. This course builds on the successful precedent at previous ECCB conferences. Course content (see below) covers the main areas of technical communication, written and oral, and uses practical examples that are relevant to conservation biology/ecology. After feedback from the Student Committee, we have now inserted a module on how to write proposals.
Date and time: Monday, August 22, start at 9:00 a.m., end around 5:00 p.m.
Where: Faculty of Economics and Management building (PEF) in its new part of building, second entrance (50.1312008N, 14.3736703E – it is a red building situated on the main street of the Campus), room E IV (ground floor)
What you will need:
Participants will need their own laptop, Wi-Fi access will be provided.
The goal of the course is to highlight how primary biodiversity data, as provided by GBIF, can be effectively used in conservation science, with a focus on demonstrating use cases and running data processing workflows to ensure data quality within analyses.
The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) is a research infrastructure and data platform providing free and open access to nearly 2 billion records on the presence of a species at a specific locality and time1. The platform brings in data in a standardised format from over 1,700 publishing institutions across the world, and in this data has fuelled the production of over 1,989 scientific publications focussed on conservation since GBIF has been tracking literature citations2. This number is likely to increase in the future, enforcing the role of GBIF of one of the principle data resources for biodiversity and conservation research.
The learning threshold from being a novice user to a competent GBIF-mediated data user remains high, with users often lacking sufficient understanding of the data standards and data publishing workflow to be able to correctly assess the quality and address heterogeneity of the data they are using within their analyses. In this course, we aim to ensure that participants are fully aware of the Darwin Core Standard and data publishing workflows so that users can effectively assess data fitness for purpose and introduce participants to basic data processing workflows in R, that can feed directly into the analyses that they will be realising.
1. GBIF: The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (2021) What is GBIF?. Available from https://www.gbif.org/what-is-gbif [14 October 2021].
2. GBIF.org (2021) Resource Search. Available from https://www.gbif.org/resource/search?contentType=literature&topics=CONSERVATION [14 October 2021].
PRICE: 1000 CZK (approx. 40 EUR)PRICE: 1000 CZK (approx. 40 EUR)
PRICE: 1000 CZK (approx. 40 EUR)
(Organized by: Stefano Canessa, University of Bern; John Ewen, Zoological Society London)
Date and time: Monday, August 22, start at 9:00 a.m., end around 5:00 p.m.
Where: Faculty of Economics and Management building (PEF) in its new part of building, second entrance (50.1312008N, 14.3736703E – it is a red building situated on the main street of the Campus),
What you will need:
Participants will need their own laptop, Wi-Fi access will be provided.
By the end of the course, participants should be able to apply the IUCN Guidelines for Reintroductions and Other Conservation Translocations to their own reintroduction planning or to assess/advise others.
Conservation translocations are increasingly used as a response to extinction crisis. In Europe, transnational (e.g. LIFE), national and regional regulations recommend following the IUCN Guidelines for Conservation Translocations, but provide little guidance for managers and advising scientists on how to fully implement those recommendations.
We aim to support conservation biologists and managers in designing and managing the complexities surrounding conservation translocations in terms of multi-stakeholder interests, biological uncertainties, and risk. We thereby hope to ultimately increase knowledge to plan, courage to act, capacity to secure resources, skills to respond to challenges, and success in conservation outcomes.
Course participants will be provided an overview of the theory and practice of how best to apply the IUCN Guidelines for Reintroductions and Other Conservation Translocations.
PRICE: 1500 CZK (approx. 60 EUR)