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The major burden of giving lectures and workshops rests with three people: Charles J. Kibert, Gisela Bosch and Jan Sendzimir.
There is also a group of some participants who previously attended the classes and now act as instructors passing the knowledge on. These are: Kaja Maliszewska, Jakub Kronenberg, Piotr Magnuszewski, Tomasz Bergier, Andrzej Czech, Agnieszka Łopata.
On behalf of the Environmental Partnership Foundation Andrzej Biderman and Rafał Serafin give guest lectures.
The main goal of the guest lectures accompanying the basic course programme is to match what is being taught to the Polish realities as well as presenting local views on certain matters, and sometimes simply enriching or adding variety to the programme. The guest lectures are given by specialists in particular fields (who in the vast majority are Polish). So far in the history of this course we have had the pleasure of being honoured by: Marcin Hyła, Leszek Świątek, Jacek Bożek, Marek Drożdż, Michael P. Drucker, Arthur
McGarithy, Bradley Guy, Stanisław Juchnowicz, Andrzej Paulo, Robert Pochyluk, Mark Nelson, Elżbieta Tyralska-Wojtycza, Włodzimierz Wójcik.
Charles J. Kibert works as a researcher and lecturer in the Faculty of Construction of the University of Florida .
He is one of the founders and actually the director of the Powell Center for Construction and Environment.
He is one of the founders and the President of the Cross Creek Initiative, non-profit organization uniting industry and universities to introduce sustainable development within building industry.
His scientific interests include sustainable construction, construction waste management, how the building industry influences the environment and possibilities for reusing materials and closing their cycles.
He is the member of the Publishing Council by the Building Research Information Journal (Great Britain). He is the author of many courses for students, industrial workers and businessmen. As organizer or main leader he took part in many conferences concerning sustainable development in Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Ireland, South Africa, Lithuania, Finland, Italy, Canada and USA. He is the guest lecturer at The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (Australia). He wrote over 100 articles, books and other publication over the sustainable development.
He has been giving lectures from the very outset of the course 'Challenges of Sustainable Development in Poland '.
Gisela Bosch works for Austrian Institute for Sustainable Development in Vienna (ÖIN, www.oin.at), she is there responsible for sustainable technology and products.
Before joining ÖIN in 2003, she was for 3 years the member of Sustainable Europe Research Institute (SERI). She also for 15 years had been working for The University of Florida (UF). In SERI she was the leader coordinator of the project, which took part within UE 5th Frame Programme. This project was dedicated to national research programs concerning sustainable development.
At the University of Florida she worked on anaerobic decay of organic waste and waste management. She was the organizer of international conference "Green Building Material'96"and interdisciplinary, international course “Construction Ecology and Metabolism”, she studied construction wastes and the possibilities to reduce its quantity, she started the series of annual seminaries on sustainable development and began the movement "Greening UF".
At present she is working for the Sendzimir Foundation and apart from being one of the initiators of the course 'Challenges of Sustainable Development', she - as a course instructor - promotes the idea of sustainability.
Jan Sendzimir is a system ecologist working on integration of both theoretical and practical aspects of sustainable development. He has been trained in biology, energy analysis of ecosystems, civil engineering and landscape ecology.
Dr. Jan Sendzimir deals with practical implementation of adaptive management as a basis for combining scientific research with large-scale management of such systems as river valleys and mountain ranges in Europe and North America . These projects go deeply into both theoretical and practical aspects of sustainable development by creating facilities for cooperation between scientists and non-scientists, the cooperation that brings about better understanding and composite solutions to environmental and social conflicts.
Jan Sendzimir occupies a post of Senior Fellow in Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy w Minneapolis (USA). Since 1999 he has been a member of International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (Austria). During the years 2002-2003 he was the coordinator responsible for working out and exploring cyclical research within Adaptive Integration of Research and Policy (AIRP) project. The project was a part of 5. EU Frame Programme and its main aim was to work out the methodology of assessing the compatibility between research grants and principles of sustainable development. He was also the leader of the project engaging the local society in creating the set of sustainable development coefficients for The Odra Valley. The project was carried out in cooperation with WWF (Worldwide Fund for Nature) and Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt.
The participant of the first edition of the course in 1998. Since then she has been cooperating with The Sendzimir Foundation. Usually she conducts a few lectures and games during the course and supports participants in practical projects.
Together with Tomasz Bergier she worked out the programme and carries out weekend workshops "Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development". She also led workshops and lectures concerning the processes of group conflicts solving during the course"Dinamics of Sustainable Development for the Karkonosze Region".
Her scientific interests include sustainable development (particularly its social and environmental part). She has been educated in environmental protection and now she is at the end of the environmental psychology studies at The Warsaw University. She is a specialist in alternative methods of solving environmental conflicts, social dilemmas and works on environmental sensibility and pro-environmental behaviors.
He participated in the first edition of the "ChoSD" course and he is from the beginning committed to organizing it, now he leads some lectures and other activities on the course. Co-author and co-leader of the weekend workshops "Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development" and "Ecological Engineering".
Assistant at the Department of the Management and Protection of Environment of The University of Science and Technology in Krakow. His scientific interests include hydrobotanical treatment plants and implementing it to reach sustainable water management. He led scientific research on sludge purification using artificial swamps. Originator and performer of the project "Wastewater Gardens for Carpathian Mountains" which aim was to promote hydrobotanical treatment plants in polish part of Carpathians. He conducted many lectures and trainings concerning hydrobotanical treatment plants for local authorities and non-governmental organizations. Coordinator and lecturer of Baltic University Programme (Sustainable Water Management, Sustainable Baltic Region).
Piotr Magnuszewski is an assistant in Physics Institute of Wroclaw University of Technology. His scientific interests are concentrated on modelling and computer simulating of complex systems and implementing them into practice. He also actively engages in educational and social activities.
In cooperation with The Sendzimir Foundation he organized and led courses and workshops on system thinking, computer modelling and sustainable development. He conducted classes of "Business Dynamics " within "International Business Course" in Antwerp. He takes part and lead projects concerning adaptive management, system thinking and local economics in cooperation with many organizations.
He cooperates with The Sendzimir Foundation in educational and research projects. He is responsible for organizing " Ecological Economics and System Thinking" workshops.
He is an adiunct in Department of International Economic Relations at The University of Łódź.
Scientific interests:
ecological and environmental economics, environmental policy, industrial ecology, corporate environmental strategies.
Non scientific interests: biology (birdwatching in particular) - participation in various surveys, observations , traveling (almost all European countries by now).
The Sendzimir Foundation, Tomasz Bergier the latest updating: 13 November, 2006
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