{"id":4848,"date":"2022-11-15T09:36:04","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T08:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cetaf.org\/dest\/?page_id=4848"},"modified":"2023-01-09T09:40:31","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T08:40:31","slug":"online-training-course-on-biodiversity-and-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cetaf.org\/dest\/online-training-course-on-biodiversity-and-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Training course on Biodiversity and Climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4842 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cetaf.org\/dest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/biodiversity.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"272\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Description<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This innovative 3-months online course (<strong>16 January to 7 April 2023<\/strong>) deals with the crucial concepts of biodiversity and climate change as well as the interaction between them. Two groups of organisms, directly affected by climate change, Herpetofauna (amphibians &amp; reptiles) and Medicinal plants, are also presented as case studies. Prominent experts of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, Belgium, the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, Hungary and the Natural History Museum of Crete, University of Crete, Greece have developed the entire <u>original<\/u> online material and resources exclusively for the needs of the online course.<\/p>\n<p>The course is innovative since it\u2019s LMS platform has been transformed in order to follow the requirements of the <u>Inquiry Based Learning (IBL) pedagogical methodology<\/u>, which is a constructivist approach where the overall goal is for learners to build knowledge by themselves. Based on that, and although the course is an <u>asynchronous<\/u> online course, except of an <u>introductory synchronous<\/u> meeting (see below), trainers support, advice and facilitate continuously the trainees\u2019 work. Motivation and interaction between trainees and trainers are thus ensured, while a whole learning experience between trainees is built at the end.<\/p>\n<p>Trainees who will follow the course can use this learning experience as a stepping stone in order to become more competitive in finding career opportunities in science-related business, and facilitate thus their employability and entry in the labour market worldwide.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Course structure, mode of implementation and learning effort<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The course<strong>: \u201cOnline training course on <\/strong><strong>Biodiversity and Climate change\u201d<\/strong> starts with\u00a0a synchronous 3 hours online meeting, with the presence of all participants and trainers together. During this meeting, the following topics are analytically presented:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Structure of the course<\/li>\n<li>Online tools that are going to be used<\/li>\n<li>Structure of the e-learning platform<\/li>\n<li>Trainees\u2019 administration and support<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Then <strong>MODULE 1<\/strong> \u201c<strong>Biodiversity and Climate Change\u201d,<\/strong>\u00a0<u>compulsory for all the participants,<\/u> follows. Analytically the themes of MODULE 1 are:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Theme 1.\u00a0 Introducing biodiversity<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1.1 What is biodiversity?<\/p>\n<p>1.2 Origin of biodiversity<\/p>\n<p>1.3 Agrobiodiversity \u2013 Genetic diversity<\/p>\n<p>1.4 Biodiversity hotspots<\/p>\n<p>1.5 A short history of biodiversity<\/p>\n<p>1.6 What is a species?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Theme 2.\u00a0 Exploring biodiversity<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2.1 Relationship of organisms in ecosystems, ecological niche<\/p>\n<p>2.2 Documenting biodiversity &#8211; scientific collation<\/p>\n<p>2.3 Biodiversity patterns and processes regulating species diversity<\/p>\n<p>2.4 Importance of biodiversity for humans<\/p>\n<p><strong>Theme 3. Threats to biodiversity in a changing climate<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>3.1 Habitat loss, fragmentation and degradation<\/p>\n<p>3.2 Overexploitation of wildlife<\/p>\n<p>3.3 Invasive alien species<\/p>\n<p>3.4 Climate change<\/p>\n<p>After completing MODULE 1 participants are asked to <u>choose and follow<\/u> one of the two case studies including two groups of organisms directly affected by climate change. Either <strong>MODULE 2a &#8211; Herpetofauna (amphibians &amp; reptiles)<\/strong> or <strong>MODULE 2b &#8211; the Medicinal plants.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Analytically the themes of MODULE 2a <\/u><\/strong><u>&#8211; <strong>Herpetofauna<\/strong><strong> are:<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n<p><strong>Theme 1. Origin of the Herpetofauna<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1.1 Origin of the amphibians<\/p>\n<p>1.2 What is a reptile?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Theme 2. Diversity of the Herpetofauna<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2.1 Diversity of amphibians<\/p>\n<p>2.2 Climate change in Europe<\/p>\n<p>2.3 Studying diversity of amphibians and reptiles<\/p>\n<p><strong>Theme 3. Physiology and ecology of the Herpetofauna<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>3.1 Physiology of amphibians<\/p>\n<p>3.2 Ecological adaptations of amphibians<\/p>\n<p>3.3 Physiology of reptiles<\/p>\n<p>3.4 Ecological adaptations of reptiles<\/p>\n<p><strong>Theme 4. Threats to the Herpetofauna<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>4.1 Habitat loss, degradation and fragmentation<\/p>\n<p>4.2 Invasive alien species<\/p>\n<p>4.3 Diseases<\/p>\n<p>4.4 Overexploitation<\/p>\n<p>4.5 Climate change<\/p>\n<p><strong>Theme 5. Herpetofauna and humans<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>5.1 Herpetofauna as source of scientific disciplines<\/p>\n<p>5.2 Herpetofauna as source for future human welfare<\/p>\n<p>5.3 Effect of herpetofauna on human life<\/p>\n<p>5.4 Conservation of herpetofauna, organisations, citizen science<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Analytically the themes of MODULE 2b \u2013 Medicinal plants are:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Theme 1. Plant diversity<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1.1 How many plant species are there?<\/p>\n<p>1.2 Plant and habitat diversity<\/p>\n<p><strong>Theme 2. Complexity of plant biogeography <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2.1 Environmental adaptation and tolerance of plants<\/p>\n<p>2.2 Dynamics in plant distribution and dispersal<\/p>\n<p>2.3 Complexity of biogeography<\/p>\n<p><strong>Theme 3. Plants and climate change <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>3.1 Climate changes and postglacial migration of plants<\/p>\n<p>3.2 Plant responses to climate change<\/p>\n<p><strong>Theme 4. Plants as source for the future <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>4.1 Everyday uses of plants<\/p>\n<p>4.2 Fuel from plants<\/p>\n<p>4.3 Food from plants<\/p>\n<p>4.4 Industrial uses of plants<\/p>\n<p>4.5 Medicinal plants. Past, present and future.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Theme 5: Threatening factors of plant diversity<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>5.1 Plants in the Anthropocene<\/p>\n<p>5.2 Threats to plant diversity<\/p>\n<p>5.3 Herbs vs nature conservation<\/p>\n<p>Trainees will need approximately 50 hours of learning effort for MODULE 1 and 50 hours for either MODULE 2a or MODULE 2b (100 hours in total).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trainers:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>D<\/strong>r <strong>Gergely Babocsay, <\/strong>Herpetologist, Curator of Vertebrate Zoology, Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, Hungary<\/p>\n<p><strong>Manolis Avramakis, <\/strong>Botanist, Senior researcher, Curator of Herbarium, Natural History Museum of Crete, University of Crete, Greece<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr Iasmi Stathi, <\/strong>Biologist, Senior researcher, Education &amp; Training Lab, Natural History Museum of Crete, University of Crete, Greece<\/p>\n<p><strong>Athanasia Margetousaki MSc<\/strong>, Pedagogist, Education &amp; Training Lab, Natural History Museum of Crete, University of Crete, Greece<\/p>\n<p><strong>Platform hosting &amp; Support<\/strong>: Center of Infrastructure Technology Services Informatics &amp; Communications, CITSIC, University of Crete, Greece, <a href=\"https:\/\/ict.uoc.gr\/index.php\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/ict.uoc.gr\/index.php\/en\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dates of Training period <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>3 months: 16 January to 7 April 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Target audience<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Students (undergraduates, MSc, PhD, postdocs)<\/li>\n<li>Secondary education science teachers<\/li>\n<li>Instructors of non-formal education<\/li>\n<li>Collection technicians in Natural History Museums, Museums and Science Centers, Botanical Gardens, NGOs for environmental issues<\/li>\n<li>Decision makers in management and protection of environment and biodiversity in public and private bodies<\/li>\n<li>Professionals such as biologists, rangers and managers of wildlife conservation in national parks, protected areas<\/li>\n<li>Citizens&#8217; organizations in the field of biodiversity conservation<\/li>\n<li>Unemployed of the above categories<\/li>\n<li>Others \/ Other stakeholders interested on the subject<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Registration deadline<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><u>15 December 2022<\/u><\/p>\n<p><strong>Fee<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><u>120 euros <\/u><\/p>\n<p><strong>Payment of fees \u2013 Registration procedure<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Registration is free.<\/p>\n<p>Registrations will be on a first-come, first-served basis. From the list of registrants, the first 100 will be notified to pay the fee in order their registration to be finalized.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Participant quota (min and max number of trainees)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Min 50 \u2013 Max 100 trainees<\/p>\n<p><strong>Course\u2019s language<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>English<\/p>\n<p><strong>Certifications provided<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Certificate of Attendance by CETAF DEST with 5 ECVET Units (<em>European Credit system for Vocational Education and Training<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>Certificate by CETAF DEST according to Europass Certificate Supplement<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Technology requirements and personal equipment<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This online course requires a computer or a laptop, as well as an internet connection to gain access to the platform.<\/p>\n<p><strong>After completing the online course trainees should have gained:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cognitive skills <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>understand the concepts of &#8220;biodiversity&#8221; and &#8220;climate change&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>understand and identify the effects of biodiversity reduction and the climate crisis<\/li>\n<li>observe how the above two concepts are related to each other<\/li>\n<li>know that there are species that are threatened or endangered due to human activities<\/li>\n<li>get familiar to Herpetofauna (amphibians &amp; reptiles) and\/or Medicinal plants<\/li>\n<li>investigate how Herpetofauna and Medicinal plants are affected by climate change<\/li>\n<li>understand the value of Natural History Collections, especially in solving environmental problems<\/li>\n<li>know the characteristics and requirements of jobs related to the management of environmental parameters<\/li>\n<li>propose actions for the protection and preservation of the environment<\/li>\n<li>become familiar with the use of ICT through the search for information, solving problems or synthesizing knowledge following the methodology of exploratory learning<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Psychomotor skills gained<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>take initiatives on how to approach environmental issues<\/li>\n<li>take responsibility for a self-study process<\/li>\n<li>select the most appropriate and reliable information from that available on the internet, which will substantiate their proposals for the solution of the specific environmental problems<\/li>\n<li>describe a problem clearly, report it to the group and ask the appropriate questions to investigate it<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Behaviors \/ Attitudes <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>enhance the development of collaboration, teamwork, critical thinking, socialization, observation and environmental awareness<\/li>\n<li>become familiar with the scientific way of thinking, i.e. how to approach a scientific issue, how to research, observe and come to conclusions and solutions, based on scientific data.<\/li>\n<li>Cultivate complex forms of thinking, such as analyzing, synthesizing and understanding information, and producing new<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>More details: <\/strong><a href=\"mailto:dest@cetaf.org\">dest@cetaf.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Registration<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Registration has closed on 15th December 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Description This innovative 3-months online course (16 January to 7 April 2023) deals with the crucial concepts of biodiversity and climate change as well as the interaction between them. 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