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Uz sudjelovanje oko 80 mljekarskih stručnjaka iz svih naših republika održan je u Zagrebu od 6.-8. veljače 1973. XI. seminar za mljekarsku industriju. Kao i prošlih godina seminar su organizirali Prehrambeno-tehnološki institut i Laboratorij za tehnologiju mlijeka Tehnološkog fakulteta u Zagrebu.

The Covid-19 pandemic caused many sudden social changes, including a shift to remote education in many countries. In Finland, remote education also concerns crafts as a standard school subject, combining aspects of art, design, textile, and technology in basic education. Accordingly, Finnish craft teachers faced the unprecedented situation of teaching remotely a subject, which often involves hands-on activities with tangible tools and materials. The present study explores how craft pedagogy has been adapted to remote education by looking at the opportunities and challenges it faces and the effects on classroom interaction. The data consist of the output of two webinars (i.e. 27 group assignments from 123 participants) organised in the autumn of 2020 and targeted at craft teachers and student craft teachers at various levels of the education system. The qualitative, data-driven content analysis reveals that remote teaching provides beneficial opportunities for involving students��� everyday lives and families in craft education. However, challenges exist relating to the unequal distribution of materials, as well as technical and social resources at different levels of education and in various contexts. Our study also finds that remote teaching is more teacher-centred and task-oriented than classroom interaction. Online teaching facilities allow teachers to provide students with more individual feedback but make maintaining students��� peer interaction difficult. Although remote craft education was considered very challenging at first, teachers have managed to create useful pedagogical practices to be utilised in and beyond the era of the Covid-19 pandemic. (DIPF/Orig.)

Ecological resilience, first defined by Holling in 1973, can be broadly described as the capacity of an ecosystem to respond to a perturbation or disturbance by resisting damage and recovering quickly, but other authors have provided variations on this theme since 1973. Ecological resilience is one potential measure of the goal of a self-sustaining ecosystem and is being considered for inclusion in the Cumulative Environmental Management Association’s Criteria and Indicators Framework for assessing reclamation success in oil sands mines. For reclaimed lands to be considered self-sustaining they should respond to natural and anthropogenic disturbances in a similar manner to an analogous undisturbed landscape might respond to the same disturbances. The University of Alberta’s Department of Renewable Resources and the Oil Sands Research and Information Network jointly hosted a one-day seminar on January 22, 2013 at the University of Alberta to discuss the concept of ecological resiliency and how it can be applied to reclaimed landscapes. 108 people from a variety of organizations and technical interests attended the seminar. There was general agreement amongst the presenters that resilience is a valuable topic to consider in reclamation planning. However, there was also agreement that implementing management systems based on resiliency would require a shift away from managing for consistency and single objectives (e.g., soil depth, stems/ha), to a system that embraces change and is focused on ensuring ecological processes are reintroduced to reclaimed landscapes (i.e., resiliency). Some of the key ecological processes that were identified included: nutrient cycling and moisture availability; soil characteristics (e.g., pH, nutrient availability, propagules, soil biota, etc.); understory plant diversity (particularly when species are matched to the correct ecosite); presence of keystone species; and the proper construction of landforms which include slope, aspect and variability in their design. The seminar was, by design, focused on providing information about the concept of ecological resilience and its potential application to land reclamation. The seminar participants recommended further sessions to bring the high-level concepts down to on-the-ground application. There was also interest in holding a similar session in a year’s time to provide more information and to focus on getting more technical detail, perhaps by focusing on specific research and implementation projects.

The international seminar on sustainable aquaculture and environment, which is one of the activities of the Core University Program between the Faculties of Fisheries, Kagoshima University and the University of the Philippines in the Visayas, sponsored by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), was held on October 16 and 17, 2004 at Inamori Memorial Hall, Kagoshima University. The participants consisted of members of the Core University Program, selected on the basis of the outcomes for their cooperative researches, and invited speakers from Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand. Twenty-two papers were presented comprising several outcomes that had been expected in the beginning of the program: methodology for environment-friendly seed production, improved culture techniques for sustainable biological reproduction, and development of environment-friendly and disease resistant feeds.