From 2006, the Summer School series has been granted financial support from the European Community's Sixth Framework Programme, Marie Curie Actions - Human Resources and Mobility.
2007, July 4-10: Trade, Property Rights and Biodiversity
Venice, Italy
Coordinator: Cees Withagen, Department of Economics, Free University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Deadline for applications: 1 February 2007
2002, September 2-14: Game
Theory and the Environment
Lavagna, Genoa, Italy
Coordinator: Carlo Carraro,
University of Venice and FEEM, Italy
Co-organiser: Fioravante Patrone, Interuniversity Centre for Game Theory
and its Applications
2001, July 2-7: Economic Valuation Methods
Venice, Italy
Coordinator: Bengt Kriström,
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences - Department of Forest Economics,
Sweden
In the autumn of 1991 and 1992, with the patronage of the
EAERE, the Istituto
Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti organised two one-week courses
in Venice, Italy, for a small group of doctoral students in environmental
and resources economics from all over Europe. In the autumn of 1995
and 1996, similar events took place at the Wageningen
Agricultural University, The Netherlands, with financial support
from the Dutch National Science Foundation.
In view of the success of these initiatives, EAERE
decided to organise these workshops on a permanent yearly basis. For
this purpose, a partnership with the Fondazione
Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) and Venice
International University (VIU) was created. Since 2000, EAERE,
FEEM and VIU have been successfully running their annual European Summer
School in Resource and Environmental Economics, usually held in Venice
and hosted in the VIU campus. Up until now there has been only one exception
to this fortunate partnership: in 2002 the Summer School was held in
Lavagna, Genoa (Italy), organised in co-operation with FEEM and the
Interuniversity Centre for Game Theory and its Applications (CITG).
The immediate aim of the Summer Schools
is to provide advanced training to European PhD students in specialised
topics relating to the field of environmental and resource economics.
The topic is established by the EAERE
Council and varies every year. The issues proposed generally reflect
lively areas of current research and policy interest. However, the rationale
for providing such training lies in the benefits which accrue from it.
The benefits of advanced research training are obvious; the reasons
for organising it at a European level are:
(i) no single higher education institution has the critical
mass of either staff or students to organise advanced training in specialised
topics, so there are clear benefits to collaboration;
(ii) given the relatively small number of PhD students
in the field of environmental and resource economics in any single European
country, these benefits from collaboration also arise across boundaries
of nation states;
(iii) organisation at the European level also means one
is able to attract the very best teachers in Europe and the US to lead
the Summer School, to the obvious benefit of the students;
(iv) given the diversity of environmental problems facing
different European countries and the policy responses to those problems,
there are clear pedagogic benefits to students learning about these
different approaches, and the Summer Schools provide first-hand experience
of sharing these ideas by dialogue with students and staff from other
countries;
(v) these benefits from networking with other staff and
students extend beyond the period of the Summer School, and establish
contacts which can be renewed later at conferences and other meetings;
(vi) these broader benefits accrue not just to the students
but also the staff; they get a chance to discuss ideas with other researchers
on a more sustained basis than is often offered by a conference, and
also get the chance to meet some of the best young PhD students in Europe,
both to learn what they are doing, perhaps spot possibilities for future
collaboration, and to spot potential recruits into research/teaching
posts;
(vii) more generally, the Summer Schools also serve a broader
objective of training a cadre of young researchers on European issues
of environmental and resource economics who may be encouraged to be
more mobile in their selection of subsequent employment within Europe;
(viii) EAERE also has the more
instrumental wish to build loyalty to the association of the leading
new European researchers in the field of environmental and resource
economics.
Only EAERE members
may apply for the School.
EAERE scholarships
are awarded to successful applicants that conform with the following
criteria: merit and financial need.