INES 2011 - 4th European Conference: Innovations in the Environmental Sector

The European Conference "Innovations in the Environmental Sector" (INES) has launched its Call for Papers: All experts from the environmental sector, human resources development, and competence modelling are invited to contribute their own related professional or academic efforts and to present them in a scientific paper and presentation.
All experts and practitioners are invited to contribute to our dialogue on competence modelling for the environmental sector and to submit high quality papers describing fully developed results, on‐going work or innovative concepts on the following topics:
Competence models for the environmental sector
E‐Learning for the environmental sector
Social communities for the environmental sector
Competence modelling in human resource development
E‐Learning for vocational education and training
Social communities for vocational education and training
Learning outcomes and competences orientation
Job profiles and working places defined by competences
Standardization of environmental competence models
Implementation of E‐Learning and social communities
Harmonization of competence models

Overview of the European Conference:
This European Conference "Innovations in the Environmental Sector" (INES) is focusing new ways and approaches for the lifelong learning by competence models, e-learning and social communities. The 4th conference INES 2011 continues the discussion developed at the first three related European conferences in Vilnius (Lithuania), Budapest (Hungary) and most recently in Bucharest (Romania) last September 2010. The WACOM consortium has organized and utilised these previous opportunities, along with national workshops in each of the WACOM partner countries, to raise the awareness of the stakeholders in the water sector, human resource development, and vocational education and training concerning the benefits and implementations of competence modelling in the water sector. The conference is organized in conjunction with the European Conference "Competence Modelling for the Water Sector" that will present the major outcome of the European WACOM consortium and initiative for competence modelling in the water sector.

Overview of the important dates:
Paper submission deadline: May 16, 2011
Notification of acceptance: June 13, 2011
Camera‐Ready copy due: July 4, 2011
Conference program: September 21, 2011

Attendance at the 4th European conference "Innovations in the Environmental Sector" (INES) is free of charge and requires online registration as places are limited. Submissions of papers related to the conference (max. eight pages) must be sent to the WACOM Consortium by Monday, 16th of May 2011. The submitters are informed about the acceptance of the papers by 13th of June 2011. All accepted will be published in the official proceedings of the European Conference (with ISBN) and distributed to all conference participants and across all of Europe.

More Information and Contact:
For more information see and download the PDF here with the detailed description of the 4th European conference "Innovations in the Environmental Sector”.
Direct enquiries and full papers can be sent to the WACOM project manager Xenia Kuhn, University of Duisburg‐Essen, via e‐mail to: xenia.kuhn-AT-icb.uni‐due.de

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