{"id":165,"date":"2021-01-25T13:35:17","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T12:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/unil-iucn\/?page_id=165"},"modified":"2025-05-07T18:28:28","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T16:28:28","slug":"collaborative-teaching","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/unil-iucn\/collaborative-teaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Collaborative Teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

IUCN and UNIL regularly collaborate on courses…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Conservation Career Day<\/a> is an annual event, coordinated by the Faculty of Biology and Medicine, providing students with a rare opportunity to interact with conservation practitioners. IUCN staff and commission members regularly speak at this even. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nature Conservation<\/a> is taught in the Faculty of Geosciences and Environment and IUCN. It includes field trips to the Lavaux UNESCO<\/a> world heritage site and IUCN Headquarters and a focus on conservation tools and issues from the biological and social sciences. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Environmental and Social Safeguards is taught in the Faculty of Geosciences and Environment. It teaches practical application of the IUCN project environmental and social safeguard standard to real conservation and development projects. IUCN speakers and instructors regularly feature in this course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Transdisciplinary Conservation Summer School,\u00a0co-taught by the Faculty of Geosciences and Environment and the Faculty of Biology and Medicine, in 2021 and 2024 focused on species conservation, bringing together the expertise of the\u00a0IUCN Species Survival Commission<\/a>\u00a0and UNIL professors. Here is a recent interview<\/a> about that teaching experience.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n