The Student Organized Event
As part of the international M.Sc. Program of Environmental Governance at the University of Freiburg, students are responsible for conceptualizing, developing and organizing an annual Freiburg Forum on Environmental Governance. All of these, is done by students independently and in parallel with ongoing modules and academic activities. Each year, the forum deals with a current international topic of interest which affects how environmental governance is carried out by affecting market, state and civil society coordination mechanisms to tackle environmental problems. The general aim of this exercise for the students is to foster discussion, cooperation efforts, group work abilities, as well as learning how to administer such a forum. Additionally, the SOE, when ending in an actual event, seeks to plant the seeds of sustainable development and wise leadership in a new generation of global citizens, namely students, junior staff from NGOs, administrations, and enterprises, but also senior personnel and the wider public.
Most of the Organizers of the MEG Forum 2010
MEET THE STUDENTS ORGANIZERS OF THE FORUM ON ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE 2010!
Catherine Mungai
Kenya
First Degree: Environmental Studies
Cristina Espinosa
Ecuador
First Degree: International Relations,
Sociology and Latin American Studies
Carolina Moreno Hernández
México
First Degree: Economics
Elena Mejía Villacís
Ecuador
First Degree: Agricultural Engineering
Emily Kilham
Australia
First Degree: Human Geography, Political Science, Sociology
Érika Cortés Donoso
Chile
First Degree: Natural Resource Management
Esinam Attipoe
Ghana
First Degree: Natural Resource Management
Hanna Barth
Germany
First Degree: Public Relations
Jessica Bobinis
USA
First Degree: Biology, German
Joseph Alpern
USA
First Degree: Business and Sustainability
Kathryn Howard
New Zealand
First Degree: Zoology
Linde Grießhaber
Germany
First Degree: Cooperative and European Law
Maria del Carmen Rivero
Mexico
First Degree: Architecture
Natalia Galyapa
Ukraine
First Degree: Ecology
Olga Vilima
Latvia
First Degree: Environmental Sciences
Philipp Nagel
Germany
First Degree: Forestry and Nature Management
Romy Sato
Brazil
First Degree: Journalism
Tatiana Cyro Costa
Brazil
First Degree: Geography, Local Development
Thomas Baumgartner
Switzerland
First Degree: Environmental Sciences
Wansiri Rongrongmuang
Thailand
First Degree: International Relations and Economics