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The TROP ICSU team facilitated a teachers workshop in Orsay, France on 28 June 2019 in collaboration with Paris-Sud University (Université Paris-Sud). The workshop was attended by 25 teachers.

A coordination meeting of the Gender Gap Project will take place on 18 and 19 February 2019 in Berlin at the  Einstein Center Digital Future. The partners  will give the results of the different tasks and prepare The International Conference that will be held from 4 to 8 November 2019 at ICTP Trieste.

During the COP 14 (Conference of the Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity, CBD), the 4^th Science Forum is organised by IUBS, the European Commission with EKLIPSE, IAI and the CBD secretariat. The objective of this Science-Policy dialogue would be to bring together and engage scientists and policy makers in a transparent dialogue, to recommend how to bring the post-2020 process forward. It can open new pathways to accelerate implementation of nature-based solutions for nature, people and the economy across different sectors, and on engaging wider parts of the society. The Science Forum took place in Sharm el-Sheikh, Arab Republic of Egypt, 23-24 November 2018.

Event Agenda

The BCGC programme of IUBS celebrated its 10^th anniversary during the 10^th International Symposium on Integrative Zoology (ISIZ) with the 2018 World Life Science Conference (2018 WLSC) that was held on 27-31 October 2018 in the Institute of Zoology (IOZ), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.

150 participants attended the symposium.

The first TROP ICSU workshop for teachers was held in collaboration with Sri Venkateswara College (University of Delhi), New Delhi, India, on October 13 and 14, 2018. The objective of the workshop was to introduce the participants to digital teaching resources for teaching topics in the Sciences, Mathematics, Social Sciences, and Humanities using climate-related examples, case studies, and activities.

In addition, participants would be invited to review the educational resources of the TROP ICSU project and to provide their feedback on the appropriateness and ease-of-use of the teaching tools and lesson plans.

80 undergraduate-level teachers participated in the workshop.

On October 14,2018 Global Biodiversity and Health Big Data (BHBD) Alliance was launched at Beijing Institute of Genomics in Beijing.

The Symposium “How to name algae: names, taxa & databases” took place at the 11^th International Phycological Congress in Szczecin, Poland, in August 2017.

Yongbiao Xue sitting (front, on the right). Photo: BHBG

Meeting with the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, Russia, on 27-29 June 2018.

Yiming Bao (right) is the project leader. Photo: BHBD

The meeting with Korean partners took place at IUBMB 2018 in the Korea Bioinformatics Center, in Korea, 4-8 June 2018.

Yongbiao Xue presents the progress report at CAS. Photo: BHBD

The meeting took place at the CAS International Partnership Program in Guiyang, China on 28^th May 2018. 

13 partners, resonsibel for different aspects of the projet met in Oslo in April 2018.

Outcomes:

• Identification of and agreement on research questions and approach
• Plans for two publications:
  
  • ‘Perspectives note’ presenting a framework to study sustainability of pastoralism
  • ‘Horizon scanning’ to identify knowledge gaps
• Identification of other necessary researchers/experts to be invited to second meeting

Participants of the 2nd Working Group meeting (f.l.t.r.): Daniel Waiswa, Rahul Chopra, Boram lee, France Caron, Aparna Joshi, sigbert Huber, Anita Nagarajan, Chris King, Nathalie Fomproix, Daniel Ramos, LS Shashidhara. Photo: IUBS

The 2^nd Working Group meeting of the "Trans-disciplinary Research Oriented Pedagogy for Improving Climate Studies and Understanding (TROP-ICSU)" project took place in Paris on 25-26 April 2018.

Participants

France Caron (IMU), Rahul Chopa (implementation team), Miguel Clusener-Godt (UNESCO), Nathalie Fomproix (IUBS), Richard Glover (ICSU ROA), Sigbert Huber (IUSS), Aparna Joshi (implementation team), Chris King (IUGS), Boram Lee (WCRP), Anita Nagarajan (implementation team), Daniel Ramos (Imaginary), LS Shashidhara (IUBS), Daniel Waiswa (AUC)
Via Skype: Allan Ashworth (INQUA), Keith Alverson (IUGG), Barbara Birli (IUSS), Veronica Iniguez (UTPL), Sepo Hachigonta (NRF), Mika Rekola (IUFRO)

Discussion

• How to increase the number and scope of pedagogical tools and teaching toolkits from different disciplines and regions
• Developing a quality-assurance certificate protocol for the uploaded/to-be-uploaded pedagogical tools and teaching toolkits
• Suggestions/assistance for dissemination of survey of educators across the globe
• Advice/assistance in organizing pilot workshops across the world for educators on the use of the teaching toolkits.
• Deciding on the venue, dates and names of main organizers and the budget for the same.

The project progress and roadmap was presented on the first day of ISC General Assembly on 3 July in Paris, several members of ISC, who are not yet involved in the project also attended the meeting.

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At the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia. Photo: BHBD

Meeting at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia, 25-29 March 2018.

Meeting in Geneva. Photo: IUBS

The team of the "Trans-disciplinary Research Oriented Pedagogy for Improving Climate Studies and Understanding (TROP-ICSU)" project had a meeting with WCRP and WMO in Geneva on 21-22 February 2018. It presented the project and seeked partnership especially for the quality control of the teaching tools.

Steering committee meeting in December in Berlin 2017.

Round table: Organsko p?elarstvo danas i kako dalje (Organic beekeeping today and what to do next), EDUCONS University, Sremska Kamenica, Serbia, 22^nd December 2017.

Biodiversity: Global Awareness and Sustainability, Chian Mai, 6-8 November 2017

Workshop on Science and Technology - Biodiversity: Global Awareness and Sustainability, which was organized by the Thailand Research Fund and Chinese Academy of Sciences. Presentation of the BHBD

Some of the participants of ISCCWCM in Beijing, China. Photo: IUBS

The International Symposium on China-Mongolia Cross-border Wildlife Conservation and Management (ISCCWCM) took place in Beijing, China, from 20^th to 21^st November 2017. 

The group metin Oslo, Norway, from 7^th to 9^th November 2017.

The International Council for Science (ICSU) invites National, Union Members and other members to attend the 32^nd ICSU General Assembly on 23-26 October 2017. As a member IUBS is taking part in it and looks forward to discuss the union with the International Social Science Council (ISSC) on 25-26 October 2017.

registration and details at ICSU

International Conference on Ecosystems under Current Social and Economic, 8-10 September 2015, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. 200 international scientists attended.

Tha training course on bioinformatics and data analysis took place in Xining, China, with 60 participants on 30 and 31 August 2017.

More than 150 scientists from more than 20 countries attended the International Symposium on Integrative Zoology. Photo: ISIZ, IUBS

BCGC co-organized the 9^th ISIZ in Xining, Qinghai province, China on 27-31 August 2017.

Plenary lecture speakers at the ISIZ, Xining, China. Top from left: Yanping Zhang, Nils Christian Stenseth (IUBS's former president), Anthony Barnosky, Larry Young, Yvon Le Maho. Bottom from left: Raymond Huey, Elizabeth Hadly, John Buckeridge, Xiquan Zhao, Susan Healy. Photo: ISIZ

BCGC co-organized the 9^th ISIZ.

The meeting of the Nomenclatural Section of the XIX International Botanical Congress took place in Shenzhen, China, in July 2017.

Congress: Traits past, present, and future: Quantitative Approaches to paleontology, conservation and climate change biology in Africa

Nairobi, Natural History Museum of Kenya, Kenya, 6 - 8 March 2017

This event will bring together paleontologists, ecologists, and quantitative biologists to discuss how data from paleontology, modern ecology, and conservation biology can be integrated to provide a comprehensive framework for monitoring and measuring ecosystem structure and function through space and time (see first circular, pdf file).

Details at iccbio-website

Meeting with partners at Quaid-i-Azam University in Pakistan from 12^th to 15^th July 2017.

IUBS is one of the eight organizing organisations of the Science Forum, which is entitled "Mainstreaming biodiversity for well-being: Contributions from Science" and will take place 1^st and 2^nd December 2016.

The forum aimes to be a meeting place to share knowledge, approaches and solutions, among scientists, policy – makers, and the civil society for mainstreaming biodiversity especially focusing on agriculture, fisheries, forestry and tourism.

Objectives

• To discuss and share biodiversity mainstreaming challenges and solutions, with a focus on agriculture, fisheries, forests, and tourism, based on current scientific findings, approaches and the experiences of stakeholders, including COP 13 delegates.
• To open the dialogue to enhance the technical and scientific cooperation for the replication of best practices and capacity-building on mainstreaming.
• To provide an open space for debate on science and research among scientists and policy – makers, and alerting scientists on how to communicate to policy-makers and the civil society and scientists to policy and society needs.

The 9^th BCGC Symposium will be held during the The 9^th International Symposium of Integrative Zoology, which is entitled "Response and adaptation of animals to extreme environments". The conference will be held in Xining, Qinghai Province, China, from 27^th to 31^st August 2017. It is organized by the International Society of Zoological Sciences (ISZS), a scientific member of IUBS, and supported by IUBS via its Biological Consequences of Global Change (BCGC) programme.

Details at conference website

The Workshop on Forest Invasive Species in Shanxi, China, with 30 participants has been conduced on 13 May 2017.

ICB organized a Town Hall meeting for biodiversity professionals at the Natural History Museum, London to discuss the strategies for registration of organismal names with Thomas Pape (President of the ICZN), March 2017.

The training workshop of IUBS's iCCB programme gathered several experienced and young scientists from more than ten countries in Nairobi, Kenya. Photo: Dr Michelle Lawing

The Workshop of the integrated Climate Change Biology (iCCB) programme gathered 22 scientists from countries including Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, Swaziland, Cameroon, Chile, Germany, France, Finland, United Kingdom, and United States, as well as 20 students from the university in Nairobi. The group “Climatic changing dynamics in ecosystems of Rwenzori Mts and Mt Elgon” led by Raymond Katebaka and colleagues took part in the workshop, with the aim of fostering future research collaboration and development of possible IUBS program. We also had a representative from “The Evolution of Terrestrial Ecosystems” program from USA (Smithsonian Institute, NHM, Washington DC) to foster future collaboration. It took place in Nairobi, Kenya from 6^th-8^th March 2017.

Training Workshop: Quantitative approaches to paleontology, conservation, and climate change biology in Africa

The workshop of the iCCB programme of IUBS will bring together paleontologists, ecologists, and quantitative biologists in Nairobi, Kenya, from 6th to 8th March 2017 to discuss how data from paleontology, modern ecology, and conservation biology can be integrated to provide a comprehensive framework for monitoring and measuring ecosystem structure and function through space and time.

Nairobi, Natural History Museum of Kenya, Kenya, 6 - 8 March 2017

Details at iCCB Website

(f.l.t.r.): L.S. Shashidhara (IUBS), Hiroyuki Takeda (IUBS), Erie Tamale (CBD Secretariat), Anne-Hélène Prieur-Richard (Future Earth), Paola Mosig Reidl (CONABIO), Rodolfo Dirzo (IAI), and Lily Rodriguez (IUBS)

The side event entitled “Mainstreaming biodiversity for well-being: Contributions from Science” was organized at the conference of the parties COP13, the highest governing body of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). Moderated by Lily Rodriguez (IUBS) the participants discussed a declaration on behalf of more than 300 scientists, practitioners and policymakers. The report summarizes why safeguarding  biodiversity  is  essential  to  improve  our  ability  to  adapt  to abrupt  changes  such  as  extreme  climate  events  or  sudden  financial  market  crashes  and  to transform the deep roots of unsustainable practices and inequity. It was intended to share knowledge, approaches and solutions, among scientists, policy–makers, and the civil society for mainstreaming biodiversity especially focusing on agriculture, fisheries, forestry and tourism. The 3^rd Science for Biodiversity Forum was held in Cancun, Mexico, on 1^st and 2^nd December 2016.

whole report (1.5 MB)

Several presentations to farmers and beekeepers in Chapada Diamantina in Bahia, Brazil by Camila Angel, Juliana Macedo and Blandina Viana. 2015 – 2016

Steering Committee meeting in in Berlin November 2016. We also held bi-weekly Skype meetings from August onwards for organizing the training workshop.

ICB Chair Ellinor Michel presented an invited seminar and extended discussion session on registration of scientific names of animals at GenBank, the global genetic sequence database at the NIH (National Institutes of Health) in Washington DC, Dec 2016. As an annotated collection of all publicly available DNA sequence, GenBank is one of the largest, and most influential users of scientific names of organisms. This set the foundation for collaborative working between ICB an GenBank.

Impact of Landcover Change on Biodiversity: Pollinators & Pollination. 3^rd Science for Biodiversity Forum of International Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS) and Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 13), Cancun, Mexico. December, 2016. Presented by P. Kevan

Café, abejas y otros bichos: polinización, diversidad y conservación. VIII Encuentro Colombiano sobre Abejas Sylvestres, Bogota, Colombia 28 – 29 November, 2016. Presented by Carlos Vergara

Pollination in Agriculture: Insects (Bees) and Ecological Intensification. at: VIII Encuentro Colombiano sobre Abejas Sylvestres, Bogota, Colombia 28 – 29 November, 2016. Presented by P. Kevan.

Managed Pollinators for Biological Crop Protection & Enhanced Production. Growers meeting in Fusagasugá,, Colombia. 19 November, 2016. Presented by P. Kevan

Implementación de la Tecnología Entomovector como Herramienta para el Fomento de la Competitividad en Sistemas Productivos Promisorios: Fase Piloto Fresa (Fragaria sp.). Growers meeting in Fusagasugá,, Colombia. 19 November 2016. Presented by Saira Espinoza.

Three international symposia on BCGC during the 22^nd International Congress of Zoology (ICZ), 14-19 November 2016, Okinawa, Japan. Over 1,100 participants from 31 countries and regions attended. They were organized within the BCGC programme of IUBS.

The International training course on invasive species 26-28 October 2016 in Hainan, China. Over 50 people from Viet Nam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar, Malaysia, Indonesia, Fuji, Samoa, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nigeria, Japan and China attended. The workshop was organized within the BCGC programme of IUBS.

Diversidad de polinizadores y producción de café en México II Congreso Nacional de Fauna Nativa en Ambientes Antropizados. Red Temática Biología, Manejo y Conservación de la Fauna Nativa en Ambientes Antropizados (REFAMA). Querétaro, Qro. October 12, 2016. Presented by Carlos Vergara.

The potential of dispersion of microbiological control agents by Apis mellifera in coffee plantations in the Chapada Diamantina. Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. 20 August, 2016 presented by Juliana Macedo

International training course at the “Research Station of Animal Ecology on Grassland” in Xilinhaote, Inner Mogolia, 29 July to 6 August 2016. Over 20 scientists and students from Germany, Russia, Democratic Republic of the Congo and China attended. The course included lectures, discussions, specimen collection in the fields, classification and analysis of the collected specimen. The workshop was organized within the BCGC programme of IUBS.

8^th International Symposium of Integrative Zoology (ISIZ), 25-29 July 2016, Xilinhaote, Inner Mongolia, China. Over 100 scientists attended.

Monitoring Honeybee Health in Canada. Presentation to House of Commons Committee on Agriculture, 30 May 2016. Witness Presentation by P. Kevan.

We held a subgroup research meeting on paleo-occupancy models in College Station, TX, USA, in March 2016. We also held monthly skype calls with this subgroup.

Pollination in Agriculture: Insects & Ecological Intensification. Entomological Society of British Columbia, Penticton, BC. 16 – 18 March, 2016. Presented by P. Kevan

Using Managed Pollinators to Protect Crops: Yield, Quality and Shelf-life: Growers - New Technology - OMAFRA: Is there a mutualistic synergy? An Introduction to a novel technology. Workshop to personnel from Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food, Guelph, Ontario. 15 March, 2016. Presented by Peter G. Kevan & John C. Sutton

International training course on Forest Invasive species in Central Asia, 23-25 December 2015, Nainan, China

Symposium at IUBS General Assembly, “Biological Consequences of Global Change: current challenges”, 14-16 December 2015, Berlin, Germany

ICB meeting took place during the 32^nd IUBS GA & Conference in Berlin, Germany, 14-16 December 2015. (see Programme and Abstracts; pdf 0.5 MB)

Report at IUBS General Assembly, 14-16 December 2015, Berlin, Germany

Symposium at IUBS General Assembly: Biodiversity, functional traits, and lessons from the past, 14-16 December 2015, Berlin, Germany

Symposium at the IUBS General Assembly BioNomenclature: Making nomenclatural codes, concepts and tools fit for modern research, 14-16 December 2015, Berlin, Germany

Workshop: Conservation on a Rapidly Changing Planet, Berkeley, California, US

Editorial meeting to publish a journal issue reporting the DAB results that had accumulated through the workshops and symposia held in 2013 and 2014.

The next meeting of the International Committee on Bionomenclature (ICB) will take place during the 32^nd IUBS General Assembly and Conference in Berlin 14^th to 16^th December 2015. The ICB is one of the scientific programmes of IUBS.

Paleo-occupancy Modeling Working Group, Merced, 19 - 23 November 2015, California, US

Workshop on Wildlife Camera Monitoring, 12-15 November 2015, Jiangxi, China

The 7^th ISIZ : International Workshop on BCGC, Wildlife monitoring under global change, 25-28 August 2015, Xi’an, China. Over 160 scientists and researchers from 16 countries attended.

Null Models and Trait Modeling Working Groups. 6 - 9 July 2015, Frankfurt, Germany

Cooperative Studies for PSHB (Polyphagous Shot Hole Borer), 13–19 April 2015, Kunming, China and Lao Cai, northern Viet Nam.

Invited workshop on Digital Nomenclature, The Natural History Museum, 14-17 January 2015, London, UK, Postponed from 2014 with 15 participants.

We organized a webinar focissing on "Bee-Vectored BioControl Technology: Pollination & crop protection together" in 2014. Watch webinar on YouTube

We organized a webinar focussing on "Coffee Pollination in the Americas" in 2014. Listen to webinar on YouTube

PCLIM, International research network about the adaptive response of processionary moths and their associated organisms to climate change, meeting, 16 December 2014, INRA, Paris, France.

The workshop Ecosystem Services and Traits, was organized and held in Helsinki, Finland in November, 2014.

4^th International Training Course on Integrative Zoology: Frontiers in Animal Ecology and Conservation Biology, 23 November – 1 December 2014, at the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. 120 trainees from 21 countries attended.

A training course on BCGC was also organized during 22-30 Nov 2014, Beijing, China

The 6^th International Symposium of Integrative Zoology (ISIZ), 24–25 November 2014, Beijing, China:
Workshop on plague ecology and climate change was held on 25 November 2014.

The Symposium Ecometrics and Biotic Change, Berlin, on 8 November, 2014, was sponsored by iCCB at the 74^th Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology.

Workshop: Desaster and Biodiversity, IUBS triennial DAB Programme in cooperation with Biodiversity Network Japan. 6 to 8 Sept 2014, Tohoku University, Katahira Campus. Followed by a field excursion to the coastline of northern Fukushima on 9 September.

The 5^th International Conference on Rodent Biology and Management (ICRBM), 25-29 August 2014, Zhengzhou, China, also supported by an IUBS young scientists grant.

Workshop titled Traits in Texas: Ecometrics, phylogeny, fossils, and biotic change, at Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, on 6-8 April 2014.

International Workshop on Disaster and Biodiversity (DAB), IUBS Triennial Program, Workshop 2. At Chuo University, Korakuen Campus, Tokyo, 28 January, 2014.

First Domestic Workshop, held in December 2013 at Chuo University, Tokyo.

iCCB database meeting, Helsinki, Finland, 1 - 5 December, 2013.

International Coffee Organization, Brazil, September 2013

4^th International Symposium Borok-IV, 22–28 September 2013, Borok, Russia; approximately 100 attendees from 16 countries

Two workshops on Biovectoring at the International Coffee Organisation (ICO), Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 9-12 September 2013.

BCGC held a Workshop at the Grassland Ecosystem Research Base of IOZ, CAS, 29–30th June 2013, Xilinhot, Inner Mongolia, China with 23 attendees from 6 countries.

In 2008, in order to study Biological Consequences of Global Change, IOZ of CAS set up a grassland ecosystem research base in Xilingol, Inner Mongolia. The major scientific research involves climate change and human activities. By using artificial precipitation, cattle grazing, the research has a focus on population and community dynamics. The aim of the research is provide theory foundation for ecological management in grasslands by solving controversial scientific questions: fluctuation of rodents populations, special mating system, community succession in plants and soil animals.

During the workshop, the attendees exchanged ideas and had a hand-on experience with on-site information.

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5^th International Symposium of Integrative Zoology (ISIZ), 25–28 June 2013, Beijing, China; approximately 100 attendees from 13 countries

Workshop on trait modeling, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA, February 18 – 24 2013.

IUBS Symposium: Nomenclature for the Future at the European Systematics Conference, in Vienna, Austria, 18 – 22 February 2013. six talks, attended by a 70-100 people at each talk.

Talks

• Schindel & Miller: Naming of organisms in an era of molecular-based discovery;
• Barkworth et al.: Developments in botanical nomenclature;
• Kirk: Obligatory registration, the situation with fungi;
• Michel & Pyle: The power and challenges for stable and sensible scientific names for animals;
• Sangster: The link between names and taxa in rank-based taxonomic systems: synonymy and homonymy in higher taxa of birds;
• Penev et al.: Automated registration model for eukaryotes

Workshop: Biological Consequences of Global Change (BCGC), 21 September 2012, Shenyang Normal University, Shenyang, China

The 21^st International Congress of Zoology (ICZ), 2-7 September 2012, the University of Haifa, Israel.

The workshop took place at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), Birmensdorf, Switzerland, 5-7 September 2012. Organized as joint conference from the Swiss National IUBS committee and the WSL.  Attended by 21 scientists from Switzerland, USA, France, Finland, Norway, Germany, and UK.

Workshop: Biological Consequences of Global Change (BCGC), 3 September 2012, the University of Haifa, Israel

The 31^st IUBS General Assembly and Conference on Biological Sciences and Bioindustry, 5-9 July 2012, Suzhou, China

Workshop: Biological Consequences of Global Change (BCGC) + Integrative Climate Change Biology (iCCB) 6 July 2012, Suzhou, China

“Biological Consequences of Global Climate Change (BCGC) and integrative Climate Change Biology (iCCB)” joint Symposium at the IUBS General Assembly, 6 July 2012, Suzhou, China.

Scientific session at IUBS' General Assembly, Suzhou, China, July 2012

BioCode & ICB Workshop, Berlin, Germany, 26-28 April 2012. 

Workshop on Wildlife-borne Diseases Control and Management in Asia-Pacific Region in 2011. In cooperation with

• the Bureau of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
• the Department of Wildlife Conservation and Natural Reserve Management
• the State Forestry Administration (SFA), China
• Wildlife Services, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).

International Training Course on New Trends and Methodology on Animal Ecology and Conservation Biology, 2011.

Sino-Russian Symposium on Amur Tiger Conservation, 2011

Workshop on Climate Change and Biosphere Reserves in cooperation with the Chinese National Committee for MAB Programme, 2011

Workshop Natura1, in The History Museum, London, 10 and 16 December 2011

The two-day workshop on "Modelling Species, Traits and Climate",  was held in Frankfurt, Germany, in September 2011.

The Symposium Modernizing the Nomenclatural Codes to meet future Needs of Scientific Communities (BioCode) was presented during Biosystematics 2011, Berlin, 23 February 2011.

International symposium Invasion of Alien Species in Holarctic, 2010

Workshop BCGC data sharing and research tools, 2010.

We organized one workshops for the working group.

The 4^th International Symposium of Integrative Zoology; Kunming, China, 4 to 6 December 2010.

Workshops organised in Berlin, October 2010