NUSAP net

2-6 October 2006
Course without fees
Limited number of participants
Registration: before 22 September 2006
Contact: e.kam-school@jrc.it
WebSite: http://reforma.fceye.ull.es/ekschool

The e-KAM School will provide courses on knowledge assessment and extended participation, deploying e-learning technology, developed at the University of La Laguna (supported by the EU funded project RE-FORMA (INTERREG III-B Programme).

This is a spin-off of the KAM Fall School organized by the Knowledge Assessment Methodologies Sector (KAM, EC-Joint Research Centre) in November 2005, in Ispra: http://alba.jrc.it/kfs.

Intended target audiences are practitioners, policy makers, administrators, stakeholders and researchers from around the world.

Lectures by an international group of experts will cover methodologies for engaging a wider range of social actors and dealing explicitly with complexity, uncertainty, values and framings.

DISPLAY CENTRES:

University of La Laguna, Spain
University of Açores, Portugal
Utrecht University, The Netherlands
University of Bergen, Norway
CEPAL, Chile
University of Los Andes, Venezuela
A limited number of personal connections are also available.

PROGRAMME

2 October
14.00-14.45 - Introduction by Silvio Funtowicz (EC-Joint Research Centre, Italy)
15.15-17.15 - Complexity by Roger Strand (CSSH, University of Bergen, Norway)
17.45-18.00 - Presentation of course evaluation

3 October
14.00-15.00 - Measuring Urban Quality of Life
15.30-16.30 - Introduction to Social Multi-Criteria Evaluation
17.00-18.00- Guided Hands On “NAIADE”
By Giuseppe Munda (EC-Joint Research Centre, Italy and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain)

4 October
14.00-15.00 -Global Sensitivity Analysis: Novel Settings and Methods by Andrea Saltelli (EC-Joint Research Centre, Italy)
15.30-16.30 - Uncertainty Assessment by Jeroen van der Sluijs (ERM, Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
17.00-18.00 - Quality Assurance by Serafin Corral Quintana (EISE, University of La Laguna, Spain)

5 October
14.00-15.00 - Interactive Deliberation on Uncertainty by Matthieu Craye (EC-Joint Research Centre, Italy)
15.30-16.30 - Public Participation Methods by Ângela Guimarães Pereira (EC-Joint Research Centre, Italy)
17.00-18.00 - Communication of science to non-scientists by Ângela Guimarães Pereira and Tiago de Sousa Pedrosa (EC-Joint Research Centre, Italy)

6 October
14.00-15.00 -Gender approaches to environment-related policy making
by Mercè Agüera Cabo (EC-Joint Research Centre, Italy) 15.30-16.30 - Guided Hands On GOUVERNe and e2 FOCUSGROUP by Ângela Guimarães Pereira and Tiago de Sousa Pedrosa (EC-Joint Research Centre, Italy)
17.00-18.00 - Tutorial session

* Notice the programme considers the time zone of Italy, Norway and the Netherlands.