INTERNATIONAL YOUTH LANDSCAPE SESSION WITH SCHOOL ELEMENTS (SESSION-SCHOOL)
Dear young landscape researchers!
We are glad to inform that within the framework of the XII International Landscape Conference “Landscape-ecological support for rational nature management and sustainable development», an International Youth Session with school elements will be held.
As International Association of Landscape Ecology (IALE) provide the conference with grant for creating Russian branch of the association, the Session-School we be held within IALE format demanding and with support of IALE and Russian Geographical Society (RGS).
Session-School will be held on 23 of August at the field UTMN campus "Lukashino". We warmly invite bachelor, master and post-graduate students (including graduates of 2017), who submitted applications and abstracts for the XII International Landscape Conference to participate in Session-School (students and postgraduate students whose materials, in the opinion of the program committee of the conference, do not have a landscape context and do not correspond to the declared directions of the conference are not invited).
Additional competitive selection
for participation in youth session-school
is announced since 10 of August
An obligatory condition for participation in the session-school is the skills of English communication at a level sufficient for understanding and presenting the results of your research.
As an application for the selection we kindly ask you to send an abstract of report (up to 1 page in academic style) and motivation letter to show your interest in landscape researches and to highlight the most interesting aspects and their application (in free style) to landscapeconference2017@gmail.com. Deadline for application submitting is August 17, but we kindly ask you to send them as soon as possible.
You will receive a notification on your admission to the youth session-school on August 18.
Format of the youth session-school
In the beginning, you will have short lectures by leading Russian and foreign landscape scientists and landscape ecologists (the names of bright lecturers and topics of interesting lectures will remain a surprise and appear in the program just before the conference).Then you will have an opportunity to present the results of your landscape research in the form of a short five-minute presentation (PowerPoint) or in the form of a poster (A1 size). The jury of the International Association of Landscape Ecology (IALE) will listen carefully, assess and reward:
1) best report of the bachelor student (including graduates of 2017);
2) best report of the master student (including graduates of 2017 with a master's degree);
3) best report of the post graduate student (including graduates of postgraduate study and defended in in 2017).
The result of the youth session-school will be published in the third volume of the materials of the XII International Landscape Conference "Landscape-ecological support of rational nature management and sustainable development", which will be prepared after the conference until the end of 2017 (the articles will be indexed at the RINC, like all conference materials). The deadline for preparing materials in accordance with the requirements for registration is October 1, 2017.
Within the session-school you will receive feedback, recommendations for the preparation of your article in accordance with the research protocol that has developed in the world science of the landscape (the corresponding lecture will be read).
We invite you to participate in the work of the youth session-school!