Minutes of 1st Skype meeting of Education and Capacity Building
working group (E and C) on Sep 9th 2012, 4 pm GMT)
Participants: Melina (Japan and Brazil), Megan ( Japan and Canada)
and Sabuj (India)
Facilitator: Sabuj
The Minutes of earlier meeting held during GYBN kick off conference in
Berlin were discussed. Here are the details:
1. 1.The Google group and email address for E and C working group
is already done( Sabuj).
2. 2.Sabuj will be the facilitator till COP11 and will also send
a doodle poll to arrange next Skype meeting before 25th
September/COP11.
3. 3.The E and C group will start translating the GYBN position
paper and GYBN statute once the GYBN will receive all the online
comments and finalize the drafts. Till now these are the following
language in which translation will be done, Spanish (by Mirna), Hindi
and Bengali (by Sabuj), Tamil (by Sudarsha), Portuguese (by Melina).
GYBN, E and C working group still need volunteer to translate GYBN
position paper and statute in French, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese and
Russian. The facilitator will send email over the GYBN network to find
out volunteer for translation once the GYBN position paper and statute
is officially adopted.
4. 4.Melina will design an information fact sheet and circulate
among the working group to gather basic scientific information related
to various COP11 related issues for common citizen and activists.
5. 5 Melina will design an online questionnaire survey to find out
what their needs are related to biodiversity education & capacity
building and send that to E and C working group for preliminary
comments and once finalized, then it will be circulated among GYBN
network.
6. 6. The facilitator (Sabuj) will send an email to Mirna to know
provide more in depth information about her idea to make a world map
to indicate were local trainings/seminars for youth will take place (
Country specific).
7. 7. Sabuj will design a Google document where he will gather
information about fellowships, educational courses and their online
links and send to the E and C for comments on format as well as
participation to fill it up.
8. 8.Melina will ask Christian & Jean Paul if they would like to
organize a webinar for all GYBN members that will participate in COP11
(for preparation) during next GYBN steering committee meeting.
@ Melina can you plz forward this to the GYBN steering committee
Best
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Melina Sakiyama
Nippon Foundation Scholar
Kyoto University Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies
Environmental Management Master Program
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