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2019 WA State NRM and Coastal Conference – Call for Abstracts| Registrations Now open| Sponsorship Opportunities| Fieldtrip EOIs| Volunteer and Not for Profit Subsidies
1 October, 2019 - 4 October, 2019
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2019 State NRM & Coastal Conference – Edith Cowan University, Joondalup from 1 October – 4 October 2019
The 2019 State Natural Resource Management (NRM) and Coastal Conference will be held amongst the beautiful natural gardens of Edith Cowan University, Joondalup from 1 October – 4 October 2019. A highly regarded WA event that has been held regularly since the 1990s, the Conference will focus on maximising networking opportunities with an interactive program including workshops, tours, engaging conference sessions and open space sessions. The theme for the conference is:
Our Coast | Our Land – Striving Together
Ngaalang booyembara|ngaalang boodjar – Dandjoo warniny
The 2019 Conference will bring together practitioners, community members, volunteers, planners, managers, researchers and businesses to share their concerns, experiences and knowledge, as well as passion and visions for the future.
Registrations now open
To view the Conference website or to register now click here.
Call for Abstracts – Due date extended to 21 June
Are you interested in sharing your industry knowledge at the 2019 State NRM & Coastal Conference? Our call for abstracts is now open and we would love to hear from you!
To submit an abstract please click here, and you will be guided through to our abstract portal. This portal will walk you through the abstract submission process.
The program will be split into three streams over the three days of the conference proceedings; Coastal, Land and Combined, to enable presentations and discussion to focus on specific topics and areas where relevant.
The sub-themes include:
- From Roots to Shoots
- Crossing Boundaries
- Policy, Laws and Traditional Knowledges: help or hindrance?
- Productive Use of Resources
- Country, Land and Sea
- On the Edge
For more information on these sub-themes click here.
Sponsorship
Would you like to showcase your brand, products or services at our Conference? There are a range of sponsorship opportunities available for your consideration including exhibition opportunities.
For further information or to download the prospectus please click here.
Please note, opportunities are strictly limited, so act now!
Expressions of Interest to host Conference Field Trips – Extended until 21 June
Would you like to show off your patch and what your group or organisation has been up to? Why not nominate to host a field trip as part of the 2019 WA State NRM and Coastal Conference 1-4 October 2019.
Perhaps highlight issues your group is dealing with and showcase your work, as well as receive a bit of feedback and input from landcarers and coastal managers across WA and Australia.
The WA Landcare Network and Conference Committee is seeking Expressions of Interest from suitable organisations involved in coastal management, NRM and landcare to plan and coordinate field trips that match the themes of the Conference see here .
This is a great opportunity to raise the profile of your group or organisation, projects and places you work, live and care for. We would love to have you on-board as an integral part of this event! Expressions of Interest close Thursday 21th June
View the Conference Field Trip Guidelines
http://www.landcarewa.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Conference-Field-Trip-Guidelines.pdf
Submit your EOI
http://www.landcarewa.org.au/conference-field-trip-eoi-form/
Volunteer and Not for Profit Conference Subsidies
The WA Landcare Network are hosting the conference and one of our key goals is to have as many of our community group members and stakeholders attend and share their stories. We’re still putting the program together, you can be a part of this also with calls for presentations open till the 30 May 2019, or if in the north Metro area put in an EOI to host a field-trip. We’ve shortlisted a range of informative and inspiring keynote speakers and we’ll let you know as soon as we get confirmation they can attend. The State Landcare and Coastal Awards events will be held in conjunction with the conference (included in registration).
We’re well aware of the costs associated for volunteers and not for profit’s to attend ($550 registration plus travel and accommodation for those out of the city), so we’re working hard to raise funds to subsidise these costs through grants and sponsorship as soon as possible.
As part of this, we’ve been asked to demonstrate the need or demand for community land and coast carer’s to attend. We are asking you to call or send us a message letting us know that you’d like to come along, if the costs will be holding you back from doing this then let us know that too. If we have a long list of groups and members wanting to attend then it will build our case to cover costs greatly.
We have a very short form that you can fill out to express your interest in attending the conference and whether you would need a subsidy. If we are successful with securing funding for conference subsidies there will be more information about criteria and how to access subsidies distributed.
Complete the Conference Subsides for Volunteers and Not for Profits Form now https://airtable.com/shrC1015mG9zsORNq
