Please spread this information in your network, with best regards Daniela Interested participants can still make it! / Nature-Society Relationships in transition Action Research methodologies to collectively deal with experience and utopia VI ARALIG PhD-course, Portugal, 3-7 June 2012 This course focuses on the perspective of sustainability in nature society relations as a continuous process of transition. Transitions are long-term, co-evolutionary and multi-actor processes that require changes both on system and actor level. Action research underlines a connection between theory and practice, between understanding and change, and an active cooperation between researchers and participants, and contributes with methodological approaches that can work within a change perspective. The course aims to bring together a multidisciplinary group of people interested in action research, in the relation between practice and reflective learning and, broadly, in transition processes, in order to share, discuss, and reflect on their experiences with different methods and activities. (see attached course programme) Please send this call to your research network VENUE: Instituto Politechnico Beja – Quinta da Saúde, Portugal COURSE ORGANIZERS: ARALIG – Action Research Action Learning Interest Group ICAAM - Institute of Mediterranean Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Universidade de Évora, Portugal CENSE-ECOMAN – Center for Environmental and Sustainability Research, Ecological Economics and Environmental Management Group, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal IP Beja - Instituto Politécnico de Beja LLL and SST (PhD programs for Life Long Learning and Social, Spatial and Technological studies) at Roskilde University, Denmark NRML – Natural Resource Management and Livelihoods in International Development & Division of Environmental Communication, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden REFOLANA, Research School for Forest, Landscape and Planning, Faculty of Life Sciences (LIFE), Copenhagen University, Denmark DEADLINES: The deadline for applications and abstracts is 15th March The deadline for extended abstracts and synthesis presentation is 13th May SUBMISSION AND CONTACTS: Vanja Karadzic – karadzic.vanja@gmail.com<mailto:karadzic.vanja@gmail.com>; You can also contact Maria Albertina Raposo – albertina@ipbeja.pt<mailto:albertina@ipbeja.pt> FEE: 250 euros (for course, accommodation, meals and fieldtrip) CREDITS: 5 ECTS APPLICATION: To apply please send: - An abstract of your work or planned activities (maximum 400 words) - A filled application form available through the contacts above - and attached belaow) to karadzic.vanja@gmail.com<mailto:karadzic.vanja@gmail.com> (se the attached programme for more details)