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2008 BGEN Annual Conference
5th-7th November 2008, Eden Project

A variety of events are listed in the four existing issues of e-fronds

The Role of Botanic Gardens in the 21st Century - A one-day symposium at the Linnean Society of London on Thursday May 15th 2008. For more information visit:
http://www.linnean.org/fileadmin/events2/attachments/1203341497_Botanic_Gardens_Programme.pdf

BGCI’s 7th International Congress on Education in Botanic Gardens
Being held in Durban Botanical Garden in November 2009. The title of the conference is ‘Action learning: places, spaces and partnerships for biodiversity and human well-being.’ There are four conference themes:
• Achieving the GSPC and MDGs through education
• Ways of learning towards environmental justice
• Climate change and botanic gardens: interpretation for action
• The Decade of ESD: plants, sustainability, education & culture
More information to come – make sure you include it in your budgets for 2009!

RBG Kew/BGCI International Diploma on Botanic Garden Education
This five week course, covers everything needed to develop education strategies for a site. The next session is running 15th September – 17th October 2008 at Kew. The organisers have put a call for applications – more information and application forms on the BGCI and Kew websites www.bgci.org/education/diploma_course_outline/. Please circulate to any colleagues who might be interested in attending

 

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