Asterousia 2024 - 2025 Phase B

Integrated Management in Biosphere Reserves and other Designated Sites of South-East Europe & the Mediterranean.

Asterousia Hybrid University - Phase A

The e-course of Phase B comes as follow up of Phase A, that took place live from 21 to 25 October in and around Asterousia Biosphere Reserve in Crete (Greece), with 30 participants from 11 countries.

Read more on Phase A below.

 

Phase A in MEdIES Phase A in UNESCO

SCOPE

Phase B (online) builds on the activities and results of Phase A (live). It took place between 27 January and 16 February 2025 as a three-week long event providing learning opportunities to a wider international audience including asynchronous and synchronous sessions.

2025 – PHASE B in numbers

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"Meet the expert" live sessions

Certificates

The Asterousia Hybrid University e-course has been highly informative and well-structured, successfully integrating diverse perspectives on sustainability, environmental management, and water conservation.

2025-course participant

I have seen and read many beautiful and different good practices and knowledge with e-course. I would like to share that the e-course brought me a new perspective. I surely understand how to cope with hazards with sustainable development.

2025-course participant

The Asterousia Hybrid University is definitely a success. The main factor of this success is the balanced combination of high quality, relevant and diverse, up-to-date teaching of important topics by key experts, with hands-on field work during its first live phase and its innovative structure which allows, during the second online phase, large audiences from all over the world to attend, interact and benefit. Through this scheme we all learn from communities of knowledge and practice.

scientific coordinator, Prof. Scoullos

Organisers

The main organisers & sponsors of the 2024 Hybrid University are:

  • The UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science and Culture in Europe (Link)
  • Region of Crete (Link)
  • Heraklion Development Agency (Link)
  • The Local Management Committee of Asterousia 
  • UNESCO Chair and Network on Sustainable Development Management and Education at the University of Athens (UoA)
  • The Greek National Committee of the MAB/UNESCO Programme
  • Mediterranean Information Office for Environment, Culture and Sustainable Development (MIO-ECSDE) through the MEdIES initiative (Link MIO-ECSDE, Link MEdIES)
  • Romanian Science UNESCO network
  • Association for the Protection of Asterousia (Link)