Network Meeting 2015, Budapest

NW 30 network meeting in Budapest on the 9th September, 2015

The AERA Environmental Education SIG 33
Marcia McKenzie discussed AERA Environmental Education SIG 33:

• Congratulations on the successful initiation of the group and an invitations to collaborate   and work together were extended
• Strengths and challenges for the SIG
• Questions from the ESER members to Marcia

Link-convenor Per Sund discussed:

• The NW development 2010-2015
• Network officers and program committee
• ESER in Budapest – 66 contributions/44 accepted
• How communication about the theme for the conference takes place
• The policy and governance group (PGG) - examples of issue

Summer school in Cambridge 2016:

• Elsa Lee informs about a summer school for master and graduate students in Cambridge 1-6 August, 2016. More information to come!
• Matthias Barth also informs that there are plans to have a summer school in Germany in 2017.

The policy and governance group (PGG):

• The group will work with the election process for link-convenor and co-convenors. The process will take a year. The six members are: Elsa Lee, Jonas Lysgaard, Paul Vare, Jutta Nikel, Marcko Rieckmann and during the meeting Alison Neilson joins the group. The group will draft a suggestion for the election process that will be sent out to the ESER members and will include process of competencies nomination, election and mandates.

Priorities & Ideas/Suggestions:

• Facebook page: Facebook could be inclusive but also exclusive.  Put forward as an addtitional communication channel but all formal communication should take place through the mailing list.  Facebook would increase the online presence of the network and might therefore help to increase membership.  Job-postings, journals etc. could also be posted to the Facebook page. Some reservations were expressed about the idea of Facebook page for the network
• Designated hotels for ESER members
• Work more closely with the AERA SIG

Graduate student as reviewers – this was discussed and the following matters were raised:

• There should be additional to the formal role of 2 reviewers per submission
• Grad students would benefit greatly from the process
• Convenor should have prior knowledge of who the students are

Attila Varga informed about the transportation to the Network dinner held at the Hungarian Institute for Educational Research and Development Centre for Content Development and Methodology, Budapest.