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We want to encourage you to lead a workshop at the Western Regional
Congress 2010 in Austria!
Come with us to the Alps and experience the natural scenery and the extraordinary "lebensraum" of this mountain region!
The Western Regional Congress 2010 is themed "Living in the Alps – challenges and solutions for a vulnerable world" and we are
looking for competent and enthusiastic workshop leaders!
We intend to offer seven to eight workshops and each of them is planned to deal with another scientific topic. Concerning the topic, one should keep
in mind that the workshop should match with one (or better a combination of two) of the following subcategories:
LIVING IN THE ALPS AND...
Global Change
(effects and impacts on the Alps, transformation e.g. glaciers, water management, tree line shift,…)
Natural Risk Management
(measurement, prevention, e.g. for avalanches, landslides, floods…)
Geoecology
(hydrology, tree line shift, vegetation in sensitive regions, environmental protection,…)
Energy
(hydro-, solar-, geothermal power, eco-friendly, possible savings through alternative energy use…)
Transport
(new ways of transportation, Brenner Base Tunnel, heavy traffic, tourism, traffic development in the Alps,…)
Tourism
(effects on natural ressources, season tourism, sustainable tourism, mass tourism, tourism and energy, traffic,…)
Regional Development and Spatial Planning
(LEADER region Wipptal, peripher regions, land development plan in the Alps, natural risks and spatial planning,…)
Demography
(migration into cities, population changes of the Alps in the past, demographic ageing, colonization of the Alps,…)
Spatial Conflicts
(Italy and Austria, Alps as natural border?, geopolitical conflicts, cross-border cooperations, minorities,…)
Geoinformation and –communication (GIS), Cartography
(remote sensing, natural risk warning, danger zone maps, mapping methods, cooperation with ESRI,…)
Themes and topics are not necessarily restricted to the subjects mentioned above, they are rather meant to be broad proposals. If you have any other
creative ideas, we are more than eager for knowing them. So go ahead with your creative approach!
Taken into account that many main themes will overlap (e.g. tourism and traffic, GIS and spatial planning or natural hazards and regional planning),
we strongly appreciate a cooperation of two workshops – interdisciplinarity is welcome! We are particularly interested in creative
ideas, like doing a project, work together with a local company, do field research, work more interdisciplinary etc.
If you are interested in leading one of the workshops, please fill in the application form in this Word Document. Please tell us why you are interested in
leading a workshop at the Western Regional Congress, what your workshop will be about, what you plan to do, what’s your motivation, which inputs you
will bring and what the participants should learn about it.
Deadline for the application is November 20th. If you have further questions, don’t hesitate to contact
us! wrc2010@egea.eu
We hope to hear from you! 
Kind regards,
On behalf of the board of the WRC 2010,
Barbara Schwendtner (scientific coordinator)
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"Transport" sounds interesting 
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posted by MarkusBelz
"Transport" sounds interesting |
Yeah, right... also for me!
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Very nice topics, especially 2 of them appeal to me very much
and Alps...sounds great!
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Topics like Regional Development and Spatial Conflicts sounds so interesting but
I do not know if I manage with the deadline  [5 day after EG articles deadline andplenty of works for editors] Anyway sounds great and I will try to do smth
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themes of workshops sounds very interesting  and Alps mmmm 
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that sounds really great, especially the Geoinformatics stuff 
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Regional Development and Spatial Planning perhaps EGEA and ESPON could have a good workshop. I was in contact with the Irish CP Brendan Bartley about this and perhaps Lole or Jan
would be intersted in persuing this? This is another interesting follow on from AC as we move into the future as Greg Ashworth looked at the past and
the concept of lebensraum and the stigma attached to German Geographical thought but in terms of the currently evolving EU context Phillip McCann also
advised on how the Barca report was using
geographers such as Sassen and Storper to reform how Cohesion and regional policy will be worked out in future.
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I agree, Padraig, sounds interesting! I didn't think in detail about a topic yet but for sure the fields you mentioned would fit perfectly into an
Alps-connected workshop.
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sounds to me as if we'll get heaps of ws-concepts concerning traffic
Great! We are looking forward to all of your inputs!
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Is the workshop time (and perhaps time division during the congress) already set?
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by sven
Is the workshop time (and perhaps time division during the congress) already set? |
more or less it is fixed. the workshop time is divided as follows: wednesday approx. 5,5 hours, thursday 8 hours and saturday 3 hours for wrap up. the
workshop excursion is already included in this time division. the general all day excursion will be on friday
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by sven
Is the workshop time (and perhaps time division during the congress) already set? |
more or less it is fixed. the workshop time is divided as follows: wednesday approx. 5,5 hours, thursday 8 hours and saturday 3 hours for wrap up. the
workshop excursion is already included in this time division. the general all day excursion will be on friday |
ok, a lot of time, cool
any idea already about the 'style' of WS-presentation?
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yes, we don't want to have those classical workshop presentations, where every workshop presents it's outcomings in five to ten minutes. therefore,
the whole saturday afternoon will be organised as discussion time - in which form, we haven't decided yet (f. ex. open space technology, fish bowle,
market hall, statement discussion,...) so the workshop leaders should take care, that there's a specific outcoming of their workshop. the participants
can discuss with the others from other workshops concerning overlaps of themes, common solutions, overlapping problems in different issues,...
is it partly clear how we meant it?
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by Babsi
yes, we don't want to have those classical workshop presentations, where every workshop presents it's outcomings in five to ten minutes. therefore,
the whole saturday afternoon will be organised as discussion time - in which form, we haven't decided yet (f. ex. open space technology, fish bowle,
market hall, statement discussion,...) so the workshop leaders should take care, that there's a specific outcoming of their workshop. the participants
can discuss with the others from other workshops concerning overlaps of themes, common solutions, overlapping problems in different issues,...
is it partly clear how we meant it? |
yes it is
Thanks!
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and of course, if you have further questions - just ask
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Well, I like the ENERGY topic, but I have no idea about leading a workshop or relation to Alps. But it would be nice to get in touch with other
possible energy workshop leader and have some discussion or to give some feedback.
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I'll be there, but it will be imposible for me to manage any WS there. But it gonna be a pleasure to participate into one of them.
See ya'. Good luck
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Im UNbelievably sorry but I will probably be in bulgaria at that time of the year attending my last universitarian Exkursion...
Im REALLY REALLY sorry, but if anything changes Ill let you know as soon as possible.
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mod-message: Please do not mix up the WRC Workshop Call Topic (this here) with the general WRC 2010 topic here.
@Johann: 
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I like the Demography and tourism topics since this are the two main topics for me to look into at the moment while writing my final thesis..
It's so tempting..
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mod-message: Please do not mix up the WRC Workshop Call Topic (this here) with the general WRC 2010 topic here. |
Wow ... now I feel a bit confused ... what is the difference?
So we should just notice, that that is a main theme that should be build of these specific topics?
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Oh, damn, no, sorry, Honsk!
I was talking about "forum topics".
General remarks to the congress (like Johann posted) shouldn't be written in this forum topic but in the general one, of course.
You're perfectly right in this forum topic with your posts about topics like energy.
And to conclude, yes, the overall congress theme of course should interact with the more concrete workshop themes, right, Babsi?
(Babsi, please post fast about the linkage of congress-theme and workshop-themes, to let forget the messy conversation I initiated.  )
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just for info, lole: johann was totally right in this topic, because he told me that he might will held a workshop at the congress
but now? maybe not?
and YES, the workshop theme should interact with our congress theme, that means that your possible ws theme should refer to the
Alps
(e.g. transport and tourism in the alps or natural risk management and spatial planning in the alps...)
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