Detail
Capacity Building Workshop on Effective Science-Policy Collaboration in Biodiversity Management
20. November 2024 - 21. November 2024, 8:30 Uhr - 17:00 Uhr
Dübendorf, Empa-Eawag Campus, FLUX Building F Floor
Workshop objectives
- To create awareness and discuss the role of research in biodiversity policymaking at different policy levels.
- To foster understanding of an effective science-policy collaboration through continued stakeholder engagement and highlight the importance of translating science to action.
- To enable participants to grasp the challenges and tactics to bridge science-policy in biodiversity conservation and provide an opportunity for the participants to network with global, national and local partners.
- To help participants initiate a policy engagement plan tailored to their respective research.
Organizers
The workshop is co-organized by the Blue-Green Biodiversity Research Initiative of Eawag and WSL, and University Research Priority Program on Global Change and Biodiversity (URPP), the PhD Program Ecology (UZH) and the PhD Program in Science and Policy (Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center, ETHZ and UZH) and in partnership with the ENGAGE project (ETH Board Joint Initiative), the ValPar.CH Project (UZH, UNIL, UNIGE, ETHZ and ZHAW) and the Translational Centre for Biodiversity Conservation (ETH domain).
Costs
free of charge
Workshop
PhD students and Postdocs/early career researchers from Eawag, WSL, ETHZ and UZH working on biodiversity and related topics who are interested in policy engagement. The workshop language is English.
Registration
ends on 31 July 2024 (Total workshop participants is 24).
Extended till 15 September 2024 (11 slots available)
Further information
Please contact Dr. Dechen Lham, Eawag (dechen.lham@cluttereawag.ch) and Dr. Debra Zuppinger, UZH (debra.zuppinger@clutterieu.uzh.ch).
Guiding questions to access participant motivation:
Please answer the following questions (max 3 pages):
- Are you familiar with the intersection of science and policy in the context of biodiversity management?
- If you have prior experience of science-policy activity, please describe this.
- What aspect of science-policy engagement or collaboration in biodiversity management are you interested in exploring?
- Can you share any specific challenges or opportunities you are aware of in bridging the gap between scientific research and policy implementation in biodiversity management?
- How do you envision integrating the knowledge and skills gained from this workshop into your current or future academic or professional endeavors related to biodiversity?
- In a few sentences, describe how this workshop will help you address those challenges/opportunities?