Julia Elpons

Short biography

(on maternity leave)

Education

• Studies of landscape planning and landscape conservation at the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna, termination 2007
  Major: sustainable development, agriculture, regional development
  Exchange semesters in Norway and Hungary 
• Master’s thesis at the institute for ecological cultivation "Criteria for the regionality of food and case studies of regional food chains in Eastern Tyrol" 
• Studies at the University College for Agrarian and Environmental Pedagogy (teachers at agricultural schools), termination 2007 
• Training „Outdoor Education“, Institute for Applied Environmental Education (IFAU), 2005

Professional career

• Since 2005: Freelancer at the Institute for Applied Environmental Education (IFAU) –  support of eco-pedagogical school project weeks 
• Since 2006: Freelancer with Bioerlebnis Norbertinum – tours and events at an organic farmhouse for children and youth 
• Since 2008: Researcher at OGUT

Key activities

• Sustainable consumption 
• Coordination site "waste avoidance in Vienna“ (www.natuerlichwien.at/wenigermist/)

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