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Report on the Chania Mediterranean Agronomic

Institute

Theodore Director

- Chania - Greece

of the four of 58 (82) 8, 10 D e c e m b e r 1982 a n d o n t h e s u b s e q u e n t agreement between the Centre and the Greek

government, is hosted and financed by Greece and has the status of an international post- graduate training und research establishment.

beautifully located amidst groves of pines, citrus, hiwi, avocado and olive trees in the vicinity of Chania. At present, work is still in progress to s u p p l y it s la b o r a t o r i e s w i t h th e r e q u i r e d

equipment, to build an open-air amphitheatre for lectures and cultural events, to plant different

of f o r e s t t r e e s i n a n arboretum, to build facilities for athletic activities a n d t o o b t a i n t h e n e c e s s a r y e q u i p m e n t a n d

Department.

- Cooperation between and other higher education and research

establishments

is located

Olive of of

to

possible ways.

this, we have had contacts with the of

us and its will

give

post- a

The of

the of Thessaloniki (Faculty of

Life Sciences, Schools of

of good. We

with the institutions of

as soon as is completed, we

in We would thus welcome

- Specialization cycles at Chania

a. Background 1.

Chania ad hoc Group on the Teaching Program for 198611987,

(cycles) of specialization C-

(i)

(iii) of

economists).

2. Specialization Cycle l(i) economic and all biological aspects of:

-

actinidia) and -cultivation of

3 . Specialization Cycle l(ii) includes all t h e b i o l o g i c a l a n d s o m e e c o n o m i c a s p e c t s o f

I

4. Specialization Cycle l(iii) of

a n d t h e e c o n o m i c s of (bioeconomics).

5.

specialization Cycles 1 (i) and 1 (ii) i n t h e 198611987

of t h e ad hoc

been implemented as scheduled.

b. Courses planned for 1987/1988

1. 198711988

new. They those

decided on 64 CA (86) 4 in Tunisia in 1986.

2. On the basis of (86) 4 and on the of the 198611987

is

activities 198711988.

a) To split Specialization Cycle l(i) into two distinct cycles and to them in

lization cycle on cultivation of vegetables and

a c i n i d i a ,

avocado) in 198811989, to

vegetables and in 198911990, and so on.

this as follows:

- Specialization Cycle l(i), as it stands now,

too only one

does not allow

tempo of at the expense of

- t h e two of

to two of

options

as it is implemented, with only slight modifications in the timing of

c) To

of

zones, as of the ad hoc

by 4.

d) To second of studies in the fields l(i) 'and l(ii) noted above, leading to the

as stipulated in of the

ad hoc decided (86) 4

of t h e Council. As stated

may be

do in a

own students should of a methodological at the beginning of which can include, if

of

c. The of in the

198711988 is

1 and 2 below).

- intensive courses being plan'ned

two detailed teaching

subjects.

a) (8 weeks)

weeks)

will be to a high-level team

of as soon as

-

its

of second

will

1987, will

of a

of on subjects of

We

such

1.

2. of species in

3. of

of coppices '

5.

, .

V - Some concluding remarks

would like to conclude by to

t h e a t t e n t i o n of

and ecological will assist

to to

the message that the totality of the effects of a

by of

sciences. of

We is of m a n a g i n g s u s t a i n a b l e h i g h t i m e to of t o t a l

exhaustion into a of

of t h e

of sciences of

options

Annex Figures

Figure l: Organization of programs in the 1987/1988 academic,year

I

and

for all Students of

2.

3. Synecology 4.

Specialization: Agronomists

2. Economy

3. Soil

4. Soil & of (Soil Sc.)

5. & Cultiv. ofVeget.

6.

7. of

8.

9. Sociology

10.

11.

13. uf

14.

15. Economics

16.

Specialization: Economists

1. Applied for &Economics 2. Accounting

3. Applied Statistics and Economics 4.

5.

6. Economics

7.

8. of a

9. Sociology and Extension

10. in

11. The EEC Common the of the System

12. food

13. Economics

14.

15.

16.Uplaod Econ. & Galnfnl

Specialization: Foresters

2.Ecological Analysis of Woodland

&

of

& Ecol.

Ecosystems in

Economy,

12.Combined of

14.Upland Economy

of Optimal

of & Commons

Econ. and

t

1988-89)

I I

in 1 Statistics and

I

Specialization: Specialization:

2.Ecophysiology

t J

Work of

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Figure 2 : Organization of programsin the 1987/1988 academic year