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CHANGE (Certificate on Humans and the Global Environment)
Graduate Training Program at the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies
University of Wisconsin, Madison

A Graduate Funding Program Supported By the National Science Foundation : Application deadline, January 2, 2008.

The University of Wisconsin's CHANGE (Certificate on Humans and the Global Environment) program is looking for exceptional Ph.D. students who want to become "change agents" through their research on global environmental vulnerability and sustainability. With IGERT (Integrative Graduate Education, Research, and Training) grant funding from the National Science Foundation we can provide up to two years of full financial support to qualified incoming Ph.D. students. The CHANGE program involves faculty members in departments ranging from atmospheric and oceanic sciences, geography, and environmental history to rural sociology, environmental studies, and public health.

Features of the CHANGE-IGERT

• The CHANGE IGERT provides one or two years of stipend, tuition, and health insurance for 3 to 4 CHANGE Fellows each year. CHANGE Fellowship students must apply and be accepted in a UW-Madison Ph.D. program and also separately apply to receive IGERT support. View our CHANGE Fellowship application page (http://www.sage.wisc.edu/igert/fellowship_application.html) for more information on applying for this grant funding. Note: Because of NSF rules, only U.S. Citizens or Permanent Residents can be funded as CHANGE Fellows.
  
• All CHANGE Fellows participate in our innovative Certificate on Humans and the Global Environment (CHANGE) - a certificate that can be added to any graduate degree at UW-Madison. CHANGE trains participating students to work more effectively across disciplinary boundaries by providing classes, training, research, and teaching opportunities that encourage collaboration and joint problem solving pertaining to coupled human, non-human natural systems. For more information, view the Nelson Institute's CHANGE program web page (http://www.nelson.wisc.edu/grad/change/).
  
• Our faculty and students promote research that focuses on understanding the links between human and non-human elements in natural systems so that vulnerabilities can be identified and sustainable solutions can be developed and promoted. Current themes include:

1. Systems Analysis of Global Environmental Processes and Dynamics
2. Globalization and Global Environmental Change: Knowledge, Institutions and Governance
3. Textures of Place: Geography, History, Ecology, and Politics
4. Transdisciplinary Approaches to Pedagogy, Management, and Organization in Global Environment Studies

• The CHANGE program is building a community of scholars across the UW-Madison campus and beyond whose research focuses on issues of environmental sustainability on a wide variety of spatial and temporal scales. Explore our core faculty web page (http://www.sage.wisc.edu/igert/faculty.html) for more information on the specific research interests of IGERT affiliated faculty.
  

For more information, visit the UW-Madison CHANGE IGERT web pages at http://www.sage.wisc.edu/igert

IGES is accepting applications for spring internships at its research projects with the aim of promoting understanding of its work by offering the opportunity for practical training through internships to capable people who wish to be active in fields related to the research of policies concerning environmental issues in the future.

Research Projects recruiting interns:

A. Hayama Headquarters

(1) Climate Policy Project (CP)

(2) Biofuels Project (BF)

(3) Forest Conservation Project (FC)

(4) Waste and Resources Project (WMR)

(5) Capacity Development and Education Project (CDE) (coming soon)

(6) Programme Management Office (PMO)

Recruiting for the study: -Environmental governance related study

(7) Research on Innovative and Strategic Policy Options (RISPO) II

B. Kitakyushu Office

(8) Kitakyushu Initiative for a Clean Environment (KI)

Qualifications: In principle, students at a Japanese or foreign graduate school.

Content of training: The intern will research or make documents concerning the content of each research project under the instruction of the project manager or the training supervisor of the project which he
or she belongs to.

Language proficiency: The intern shall be proficient enough in English for the purposes of oral communication and writing the documents.

Term of Application: 5 November 2007 - 21 December 2007 (Deadline has been extended)

Term of Internship: From 7 January 2008 to 30 April, 2008 (Basically more than two months within above period. Actual term is determined after the discussion between the intern and each project.)

For more details on the application, go to
http://www.iges.or.jp/en/news/saiyo/200801intern/index.html

Detailed information is available through this link: http://www.sida.se/shared/jsp/download.jsp?f=SIDA2994en_ITP-KatalogWebb.pdf&a=2893