WWW @ SEAT-KU

This is the "WP8 Workshop Week" at SEAT-KU a.k.a. WWW @ SEAT-KU. The time when we agreed that all other work is set aside (a bit) to give priority to the final preparations and delivery of the 1-day ethical workshop event on Thu, 14th June. It will be held at the Faculty of Fisheries Building, Kasetsart University, Bangkhen campus. The University of Bergen WP8 team (Prof Dr Matthias Kaiser and Dr Scient Arne Sveinson Haugen) have been in constant communication with the SEAT-KU team, initially with the PI Dr Kriengkrai Satapornvanit and later on, with Ms Wanwichanee Sritha, the Senior Research Associate. The other members of the team also supported the work in various ways.

Although preparations have been going on as early as January, there are still other activities which could only be done this week. Such as the training of workshop facilitators and assistants, which include detailed briefing of the actual workshop activities, explanation of workshop sessions, and role-playing.  During this workshop week, temporary staff have been hired to complete the team of group facilitators and assistants. As the nature of the workshop is participatory group work, group facilitators need to be trained to understand the workshop context and conduct group activities and dynamics effectively.

Participants from various shrimp and tilapia value chains including secondary stakeholders and the media have been invited. Other members of the SEAT team from the University of Stirling, CEFAS, and the University of Copenhagen are also attending this workshop to learn how the outcomes could be linked to the overall SEAT project outcomes such as the Ethical Aquatic Food Index (EAFI).

The shrimp and value chain posters will be distributed to the participants, and an immediate impact survey will also be conducted among them, as part of the action research on poster impact (WP9).

Dr Arne SH and Prof Matthias K from University of Bergen briefing the team

Dr. Kriengkrai S. explaining about the different scenarios