Application Requirements

Target group: Young foreign and Germanresearchers, graduate or advanced students whoreside in a developing country with strongpesticide contamination or have a professionalrelation to this topic.

Requirements:▪ Bachelor's or Master's degree in naturalsciences or an equivalent qualification,

▪ Basic knowledge in GIS and methods for remotesensing,

▪ English language skil ls at minimum level B2,▪ Motivation of participation.

Registration

Registration deadline: May 1 9, 201 3Application via www.summeracademy-landau.de

Cours fee: 800 EUR, includes registration fee,course materials, accommodation and socialprogramme

Participants from ODA countries (el igible toreceive Official Development Assistance) canapply for scholarship (transportation, course fee)thanks to funding by the DAAD.

ECTS-Credits

Up to 5 ECTS credits can be awarded.

Contact

Institute for Environmental SciencesUniversity of Koblenz-Landau

Dr. Mäggi Hieber RuizFortstrasse 7

D-76829 Landau/PfalzGermany

Phone: +49 (0) 6341 /280-31 521Fax: +49 (0) 6341 /280-31 526

sommerakademie@uni-landau.de

www.summeracademy-landau.dewww.sommerakademie-landau.de

Funded by the DAAD with means from the FederalForeign Office.

In cooperation with Action Team 6 Follow-UpInitiative (AT6FUI).

© 201 3 Institute for Environmental SciencesUniversity of Koblenz-LandauText and Design: Mäggi Hieber Ruiz

International Summer Academy onSpatial Ecotoxicology and

Ecotoxicological Risk Assessment -Using an Open Community Approach

9. - 22. September 201 3

Campus Landau/Pfalz, Germany

Spatial Ecotoxicology

An increasing number of chemical substances arebeing released into our environment. Particularlyaffected are developing countries with highcontamination but often inadequate controlmechanisms and insufficient resources for riskassessment.Spatial analysis offers more and more applicationsand potential within ecological risk assessment.The growing Open Community Approach makesthis technology available for everybody.Experts of various discipl ines from national andinternational institutions wil l combine basicconcepts of ecotoxicology with methods ofgeographic information system analysis. This wil lbe i l lustrated with practical examples, both in thefield and at the computer.

Course Objective

The 'International Summer Academy on SpatialEcotoxicology and Ecotoxicological RiskAssessment - Using an Open CommunityApproach' gives an overview on ecotoxicologicalrisk assessment with a focus on the use of freelyavailable methods and resources of remotesensing and spatial analysis using GIS. TheCourse wants to provide young scientists withinexpensive tools and programmes that areoriented for use both in developing and developedcountries.

Social programme

In addition to the academic courses, a socialprogramme combines history, culture and natureof the Palatinate and Germany and offersexcursions to different nature protection areas,Heidelberg, historic towns and castles as well asvarious evening events.

Besides, participants can visit the various localactivities such as cinema, theatre, museums, andtraditional wine and fal l festivals in the surroundingcommunities at their own expense.

Course Programme

The course programme is based on the Europeanand U.S. Framework for Ecological RiskAssessment and contains the fol lowing ten modules:1 . Problem formulation2. Hazard assessment of chemical stressors3. Characterisation of effects on One Health4. Pesticide pollution and vulnerabil ity concepts5. Earth-to-space-based observing systems for

environmental risk assessment6. Use of free Open Source spatial analysis tool7. Creation of global pesticide application maps8. Open community approach in One Health risk

mapping9. Risk assessment and data availabi l ity in a

developing country, El Salvador1 0. Assessing risk exposure to natural hazards in

Central America applying CARA-GIS

Experts come from different national and interna-tional discipl ines and institutions such as:▪ Institutes for Environmental Sciences and of

Mathematics, University Koblenz-Landau▪ Institute for Environment and Human Security,

United Nations University (UNU-EHS)▪ Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural

Resources (BGR)▪ Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources

of El Salvador (MARN).

Spati al Ecotoxi co l o g y