Meetings, workshops, seminars and courses

Within Bioheritage, CBM has arranged interdisciplinary activities for researchers, non-governmental organizations, authorities and stake holders with participants from Sweden and other European countries.

Upcoming events

Field course in Romania 2010

Swedish Biodiversity Centre has for several years arranged field courses in Romania with the intention to gain new insights in the earlier Swedish management and its effect on landscape and biodiversity. Participants have mainly been Swedes and Romanians. The courses have been carried out in cooperation with several Romanian partners e.g. USAMV (The University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine) in Cluj-Napoca, The BABES-BOLYAI university in Cluj-Napoca and Romanian WWF.

Romania has one of Europe 's most intact agricultural landscapes managed with traditional methods. Land use and landscape are still to a large extent unaffected by the 20 th century changes that are characteristic for large areas of Europe . A journey to Romania is therefore in many ways a travel back in time. In Romania it is clear how opportunities for (often threatened) plant- and animal species are created by traditional management regimes like, mowing, out land grazing, transhumance, herding, pollarding, coppicing and temporary cultivations.

Contact persons:
Anna Dahlström, e-mail: anna.dahlstrom@cbm.slu.se
Tommy Lennartsson, e-mail: tommy.lennartsson@cbm.slu.se

Previous activities

The future of European semi-natural grasslands

Workshop 20-21 October 2008
In October 2008, 53 participants from 14 different European countries were assembled in Konstanz, Germany, to discuss the future of semi-natural grasslands. The over all aims of the workshop was to identify gaps of knowledge and to suggest new research projects necessary for the conservation of European semi-natural grasslands. What are the main obstacles for conservation? What needs to be done concerning research and sharing of knowledge within and between countries?

Report from workshop >

Management of semi-natural pastures

Workshop 19 november, 2007, Uppsala Sweden
The aim of the workshop was to collect and analyse knowledge about management of semi-natural pastures that exists among experts of different species groups. What species groups and values are completely incompatible, what management regimes would be able to satisfy the demands of different species and where are there serious gaps of knowledge?

Link to the full report (Swedish)

Outland use, traditional knowledge and biodiversity in upland forested areas

Seminar 7 December, 2006, Uppsala Sweden
The aim of the seminar was to get an overview of the knowledge about outland use, in upland forested areas in Sweden , and its relation to biodiversity.

Link to the full report (Swedish)