Advanced Research Workshops (ARWs) are working meetings of about four days' duration, where scientists and engineers researching at the frontiers of a subject are able to engage in an intense but informal exchange of views, aiming at a critical assessment of existing knowledge and identification of directions for future actions. Attendance at ARWs is mainly by invitation, but a few places are available for particularly well-qualified scientists upon application to the co-directors of the particular ARW.
Objective:
The purpose of this workshop is to bring together the leading thinkers and practitioners in higher
education (in several fields pertaining to environmental security) with government agencies, NGOs and
universities to identify the best academic approaches for training university students in transition
countries to address issues of environmental security from an interdisciplinary framework. This
objective will advance the next generation of practitioners to engage fully with the environmental
security problems such as that of the Chernobyl disaster in the Ukraine, the postindustrial trail of
pollution in the Black Triangle Region, and predicted agricultural loss due to climate change.
