Ataharul Chowdhury
Assistant Professor
School of Environmental Design & Rural Development
University of Guelph
TRAINING & WORKSHOP
A) Seminar, Workshop & Dialogue Organized
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Worked in a team of international students to report conference, ‘World food system- A contribution from Europe’, Tropentag 2010, organized by the North-South Centre of the ETH Zurich during September 14-16, 2010, Zurich through web 2.0 platform (http://blog.tropentag.de).
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Worked as a Member of the scientific and organizing committee of the 9th European International Farming System Association symposium ‘Building sustainable rural future: The added value of systems approaches in times of change and uncertainty’ organized by the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, during 4-7 July, 2010, Vienna.
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Organized, ‘Inaugural workshop of the Project Fostering Women Voices through Videos in Bangladesh, jointly with the Rural Development Academy, during 10-11 March, Bogra, Bangladesh.
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Served in organizing 'Seeking opportunities in times of crisis', Inaugural Workshop of the Centre for Development Research, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, on 14 October, 2009, Vienna.
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Organized, ‘Meeting & Discussion with the North-South-Dialogue Scholars from Vienna’, jointly with the Austrian Agency for International Cooperation in Education and Research, held on 23 May, 2009 Vienna.
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Worked as rapporteur of the workshop on the ‘World Development Report: Agriculture for development’, organized by the Austrian Development Corporation on 18 June, 2008 Afro-Asian Institute, Vienna.
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Organized, ‘Cultural event and Discussion’ for the North-South-Dialogue Scholars from Vienna’, jointly with the Austrian Agency for International Cooperation in Education and Research, on 23 August, 2008, Vienna.
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Served in organizing national seminar on “Sustainable Livelihoods Improvement: Challenges for Extension Services” organized by the BAES, Department of Agricultural Extension Education, Bangladesh Agricultural University, during 21 –22 January 2004, Mymensingh, Bangladesh.
B) Training & Workshop Participated
- Graduate Student University Teaching Conference, Organized by the Centre for Open Learning & Educational Support, University of Guelph, August, 30, 2012.
- ‘Innovative collaboration for development’-training course on theory and practice of social media for collaborative development, offered by the United Nations Institute for Training and Research, Geneva, Switzerland, July-September, 2011.
- Workshop, ‘Project Management’ organized by the Austrian Agency for International Cooperation in Education and Research on 16 April, 2011, Vienna.
- ‘Europass workshop (Higher education system in Austria, Bologna process, Europass), organized by the National Agency for Lifelong Learning, Austrian Agency for International Cooperation in Education and Research, on19 May, 2010, Vienna.
- Refresher training course, ‘ Development of sustainable potato supply chains to support rural development in Asia’ organized by the Wageningen University and Research Centre and Vietnam Academy of Agricultural Sciences during 30 Nov-11 Dec, 2009, Hanoi.
- ‘Researchers on the move. Intercultural dimensions in sciences and humanities’ organized by the Austrian Agency for International Cooperation in Education and Research, on June 4, 2009, Salzburg.
- ‘Social network analysis and knowledge networks: Introduction with focus on case studies’ Organized by the University of Vienna, during 28-29 April, 2009, Vienna.
- Training on ‘Working with EndNote 9’ organized by the Wageningen UR Library on 8 March 2007, Wageningen.
- Training course on ‘Scientific report writing’ organized by the Graduate Training Institute, Bangladesh Agricultural University during 2 to 7 Oct 2004, Mymensingh.
- Training course on ‘English language proficiency’ organized by the Department of Language, Bangladesh Agricultural University during October to November 1999 Mymensingh.
- Training course ‘Statistical methods for agricultural research’ organized by the Graduate Training Institute, Bangladesh Agricultural University, during May 29 to June 10 , 2004, Mymensingh.
- Training course on ‘Data analysis: MSTATC and EXCEL’ organized by the Graduate Training Institute, Bangladesh Agricultural University, during 13-25 July 2002, Mymensingh.