C O U R S E S

• BULGARIA

  Project Planning and Implementation, forth delivery

  Sept. 17-19

  EMTC (sponsored by the REC Local Grants Program)

  Chemical Safety Audits, first delivery

  Oct. 6-10

  (U.S. EPA)

• CZECH REPUBLIC

  Polishing Your Facilitation Skills

  Sept. 22- 23

  Information Centre of the Project Silesia

  (U.S. EPA)

• HUNGARY
  *Possible workshops that have not been finalized

  Regional Internet Training Workshop

  Sessions include "Introduction to Internet Tools," "Accessing Data by E-mail (lists, by mail, by web)" and "Interactive Internet Tools"

  Sept. 1-2

  REC-Szentendre, Hungary

  Public Participation*

  Sept. 14-19

  U.S. EPA

  Solid Waste Management*

  Oct. 12-17

  U.S. EPA

  Pollution Prevention*

  Nov. 9-14

  U.S. EPA

  Hazardous Site Ranking*

  Dec. 14-19

  U.S. EPA

• POLAND

  UCN/ECEE Conference '97

  Biodiversity and Sustainable Lifestyles: Creating New Partnerships

  Sept. 18-23

  Warsaw, Mikolajki, Poland

  A conference on the mediating role of education in bringing together different interests.

  Contact: Monika Lieschke, ARGE Umwelterziehung, Alser str. 21, A-1080 Wien, Austria. Tel: (43-1) 402-4701, fax: (43-1) 402-4705.

• ROMANIA

  6th EMTC Network Workshop

  Oct. 2-4

  Ploiesti, Romania

  Organized by EMTC Romania (TIMCED)

  For more details, see the related article

• RUSSIA

  Environmental Education: Non-linear Thinking

  Sept. 22-27

  Voronezh, Russia

  International specialists are preparing this part of the series of conferences entitled "Non-linear World."

  Contact: The Organizing Committee, VGU, Institute of Mathematics, I.S.Gudovich, Russia 394693, Voronezhm Universitetskaya pl. 1. Tel.: (7-073) 255-0857, 278-9417, e-mail: gudovi@imath.vsu.ru

  Solid Waste Management

  Oct. 20-23

  U.S. EPA, CETI

• SLOVAKIA

  Training of Trainers in Strategic Planning

  Oct. 13-14

  PDCS/ETP

  Strategic Planning for Non-Profit Organizations

  Oct. 15-17

  PDCS/ETP

  Financing Municipal Environmental Investments

  Oct. 29-31

  ETP

  Effective Communication

  November

  PDCS

  Leadership for NGO activists

  November

  ETP

  Training of Trainers for environmental NGOs

  December

  ETP

• SLOVENIA

  Local Environmental Action Planning - Coordinators as Change Agents

  September - October

  Program will be presented 3 more times for 3 different regions. Sponsored by the

  Ministry of Environment

• ELSEWHERE

  Creating Effective Environmental Education

  Sept. 5-12

  Suffolk, United Kingdom

  Conference will present formal and nonformal approaches to environmental education in the U. K.

  Contact: Janet Jones, Field Studies Council, Environmental Education, Preston Montford, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, SY4 1HW, U.K. Tel: (44-1743) 851-074, fax: (44-1743) 850-178

  Multidisciplinarity and International Cooperation in Environmental Education

  Sept. 18-20

  Chambery, France

  Topics include European cooperation in environmental education, different points of view on environmental science, sustainable development and environmental education, multimedia and new communication tools.

  Contact: Dr. Herve Boileau, AUDES Ô97, ESIGEC, Universite de Savoie, Campus Technolac, 73376 Le Bourget du Lac, France. Tel: (33) 79-75-88-12, fax: (33) 79-75-87-72, e-mail: Herve.Boileau@univ-savoie.fr

  European Environmental Education Fair

  Sept. 24-26

  Luneburg, Germany

  New approaches, projects and methods of technology-based environmental education, as well as publications in this field from European countries.

  Contact: Prof. W. Leal Filho, University of Luneburg, Department of Ecology and Environmental Education, Wilschenbrucher Weg 84, D-21335 Luneburg, Germany. Tel/fax: (49-4131) 714-373, e-mail: leal@uni-lueneburg.de

  Train the Eco-Trainer: International Training Course for Ecopedagogic

  Sept. 29-Oct. 3

  Vienna, Austria

  European experts are working together to develop six modules and a CD-ROM for an experience-oriented training of trainers. Those trained will then be able to independently design and carry out courses in their own countries.

  Contact: Andras Csonka, Foundation for Development of Ecological Culture, Miklos ter 1, 1035 Budapest, Hungary. Tel: (36-1) 250-0594, fax: (36-1) 168-8002, e-mail: csonka@okfa.hu

  Entree '97: The 7th Conference on Environmental Training in Engineering Education

  Nov. 12-14

  Sophia-Antipolis (Nice), France

  Conference will gather trainers from different countries to focus on energy and the environment.

  Contact: Mr. Pekka Pellinen, UETP-EEE. Tel: (358-9) 2291-2259, (358-9) 2291-2944, e-mail: pekka.pellinen@tek.fi

To have an event listed here, send the information to: Insight newsletter, EMTC Network, c/o Regional Environmental Center, Ady Endre ut 9-11, 2000 Szentendre, Hungary. Fax: (36-26) 311-294. e-mail: sioannou@rec.org