TEN's Student Team
Project TEN Reference book and course
The different partner countries in the TEN project are pushing hard to actualize Ecological Networks on all levels; regional, national and transnational. Some overviews on a certain level on a specific topic are available, but a complete review on the European situation on all levels and all topics is missing. This gives a major risk that over and over again the same ideas are being developed and put to practice, while in general the effectiveness turns out to be lower without communication on the realization of the outputs. A central information desk or database to gain or exchange knowledge on ecological water
corridors does not exist. To fulfill this need the Province of Drenthe developed a plan to compose a handbook and a course in cooperation with the Van Hall Instituut Business Center. Students of the Van Hall Instituut (see below for an introduction) are preparing this handbook and the course. For this purpose they make a detailed inventory and evaluation of the existing knowledge in different European countries (emphasis on the Netherlands, Germany, UK).

Ingrid Timmermans
Hi, my name is Ingrid Timmermans and I am a student at the Van Hall Instituut in Leeuwarden, The Netherlands. Here I follow the Bachelor programme of Animal Management. I am now in the final year and my specializations are:
" Policy and Communication
" Wildlife Management in situ/ ex situ

Together with Jette we form the TEN students team. Where we work on theme 1: Policy and Implementation. For this topic I'm helping Jette with an inventory on ecological water corridors. For the other topic: Design and Construction two other foreign students are presently being approached.

Jette Bijlholt
I am Jette Bijlholt and I am one of the students that are working on the TEN-3 project. I am making an inventory of the knowledge that is present about ecological water corridors in the Netherlands, Germany and the U.K. Therefore I interview many people of different provinces, water boards and other (nature) organizations. It is nice to meet all these people and to see the differences between the tasks of these organizations and the way that they are involved by the realization of water corridors. Another nice aspect of this placement is that I learn a lot about the realization of water corridors in Germany and the U.K. in stead of only the Netherlands. I hope that my second placement will be even as nice as this one!

You can meet the students at the Conference in Norwich in June! They will be present to interview the foreign partners.

Van Hall Instituut and Van Hall Instituut Business Center
The Van Hall Instituut is a professional University that offers its Bachelors of Science courses in the areas of Food, Environment, Agriculture and Animal Management.
The Van Hall Instituut Business Center provides consultancy, contract applied research, training and courses for governmental agencies and (small) businesses.
More information about us can be found on www.vhall.nl or www.vhibc.nl