Friday, December 7, 2012

Undergraduate placement opportunities in Germany

The BES Agricultural Ecology Specialist Group are involved with an international collaboration (funded by BiodivERsA) to do multi-taxa work on effects of farmland heterogeneity. Their German partners (Teja Tscharntke's group in Göttingen) have asked them to circulate the following, which involves fieldwork related to and as part of the international project:

We have the possibility to fund students from Canada, UK (and USA) for doing an internship. The funds come from DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service). We are looking for 2 undergraduate students to participate in the FarmLand field work in Göttingen. Our offers can be found in the DAAD database. The title of our offers: "Biodiversity and biological control in agricultural landscapes"” and "Pollinator diversity and ecosystem functioning in agricultural landscapes".

The BiodivERsA project has a website.

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