Renata Carolina Breitenfeld

1. Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of the pilot project for the cultivation of medicinal plants for bioeconomic purposes with different stakeholders. 2. Semi-qualitative data collection at field, analysis and systematization of the collection information. 3. Desing and development of a market product related to medicinal plants and water at the market in its value chain. 4. Final report, render account of the project and development of a research article, and governance with communities participation.

1. Collaboration in the Design of a Water Fund with different stakeholders (private sector, public sector- GADs, NGO's and the Academy). 2. Final reports of projects related to: agricultural frontier, environment and land use - urban and rural water topics of the canton. 3. Implementation in capacity building for governance and intercultural management.

1. Measurement of high mountain pilot areas and updating of those data for forest management as a protection from natural risks at the Suisse NaiS Platform. 2. Development of a method for data collection of timber damage caused by deers and monitoring project in conifers trees. 3. Active collaboration in forest measuring and timber management in protected areas. 4. Forest management according to the processing of construction requests in urban and rural areas.

Couch for global learning and sustainability approaches, through environmental educational workshops at the “Changemaker-Project”.

1. Final a report on traditional knowledge of regional products and development of an interactive inventory website about medicinal plants. 2. Enhancement of women's participation in the recommendation of sustainable products with ecosystem services for community-based management.

1. Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E), baseline survey for project audits of the Water Fund Foundation. 2. Diaspora Expert from GIZ at the Program Migration and Diaspora (PMD).

1. International business and Trade Fairs (Domotex and Biofach 2018) in cooperation with the German industry. 2. Business to business (B2B) and Matchmaking contacts witch stakeholders in all levels at the IPD. 3. Interpretation and translation in Spanish/English/German. 4. Administration and events planning collaboration.

1. Consulting on soil quality and soil degradation. 2. Development of cost-efficient tools for measuring biophysics soil indicators, of the Adaptation to Climate Change and Water Sources protection Project, in páramos.

1. Tropical forest research for website update, translations of project reports (Spanish & German). 2. Attendance at UNFCCC Intermediate Conferences in Bonn, Germany and networking with indigenous leaders in Latin America by REDD+.

In times of globalization and the accompanying environmental pollution, natural resources such as food, water and energy are in danger. Specialists are needed who deal with the management of natural resources in an interdisciplinary and application-oriented manner. The program aims to train experts with the necessary economic, technical and cultural knowledge.

Natural resources (use, protection, safeguarding), global change (climate change, ecosystems, land use, globalization), livelihoods (forest, water, soil, air, biodiversity), transformation to sustainability (social-ecological-technical systems), and natural hazards and environmental risks (resilience, adaptation) and economics.

Ecology and sustainable tourism, community based management, flora and fauna ecosistems distribution.