Advanced training course 1 (ATC1)
PRORISK
Advanced Training Course 1
November - December 2020 | online
During November and December 2020, the first Advanced Training Course (ATC1) was organized within the PRORISK project. The course had been planned to be organized in Girona, Spain. But because of the COVID pandemic, this event was collected online.
Prorisk ATC1 was organized by University of Girona (UdG) and Vrije University Amsterdam (VUA) in cooperation with Masaryk University (MU).
ATC1 consisted of five courses and was focused mainly on introduction of project:
- TS1 – Introduction to PRORISK
- TS2 – Experimental design, hypothesis testing, GLP
- SC1 – Introduction to exposure science
- SC2 – Introduction to AOPs and ecosystem services
- SC3 – Introduction to risk assessment and socio-economic aspects
The completed ATC1 course provides 2 ECTS credit points.

November - December 2020
12th November
- TS1 - Introduction to PRORISK
- SC2 - Introduction to the ecosystem services concept and its use in environmental risk assessment
17th + 25th November
- SC3 - Introduction to Risk Assessment
20th November + 4th December
- TS2 - Experimental design, hypothesis testing, good laboratory practice
23th + 30th November
- SC2 - Hazard assessment and introduction to adverse outcome pathways (AOPs)
27th November
- SC1 - Introduction to Exposure Science
1st + 9th December
- SC2 - Ecosystem functions, biodiversity and trait-based approaches link to services
2nd December
- SC3 - Socio-economic aspects of risk assessment
- Luděk Bláha – Masaryk University RECETOX
- Veronika Jálová – Masaryk University RECETOX
- Marja Lamoree - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Pim Leonards - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Lorraine Maltby – University of Sheffield
- Sabine Apitz - SEA Environmental Decisions Ltd
- Philip H Warren- University of Sheffield
- Klára Hilscherová - Masaryk University RECETOX
- Knut Erik Tollefsen - Norwegian Institute for Water Research - NIVA
- Anna Romaní - University of Girona
- Helena Guasch – CSIC CEAB
- Kees van Gestel - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Roy Brouwer - University of Waterloo
- Pieter van Beukering - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam