FRIDAY-SUNDAY, 23-25 AUGUST

23-25 August

Long pre-conference excursions

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SUNDAY, 25 AUGUST

8:30-14:00 Pre-registration for all participants in Oecologicum (address: Liivi 2, Tartu - GOOGLE MAPS)
09:00-13:00 1. Crash course (indoor): Soil and Water Bioengineering as Nature-Based Solution. An introduction
09:00-12:00

1. Workshop: Remote sensing-based monitoring of peatlands and their restoration

09:00-11:00

2. Workshop: Accelerating wetland restoration, conservation, and sustainable management - Empowering stakeholders to find new means and ways to deal with the current challenges

14:00-17:00

3. Workshop: Is Harmony Possible in Restoration: Resolving Conspiracy Theories and Dispelling Myths in Ecological Restoration

14:00-16:00 4. Workshop: Co-creating a European Science Service for Freshwater Biodiversity
14:00-16:00 1. Crash course continues (outdoor): Soil and Water Bioengineering as Nature-Based Solution. An introduction

* Read more about workshops HERE and crash courses HERE.

 

 

 

MONDAY, 26 AUGUST

09:00

Full-day tours from Tartu and Tallinn (ending in Tartu)

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19:00-21:00

Icebreaker (open-air event)

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TUESDAY, 27 AUGUST

08:00-18:30 Registration and info desk are open  
09:00-09:30

ROOM: Bridge - BROADCAST!
Welcome session

 
09:30-10:30

ROOM: Bridge - BROADCAST!
Plenary session: Florian Claeys

 
10:30-11:00

Coffee break

 
11:00-12:30

ROOM: Bridge

3.1. Restoration of wetlands: Pathways, trade-offs and co-benefits

ROOM: Hurt - BROADCAST!

9.1. Implementing the Nature Restoration Regulation: technical and legal challenges for National Plans across Europe

ROOM: Maailmafilm

7.2. On a way to European Mining Restoration Guidelines

ROOM: Manninen

4.0. Restoration
of forest ecosystems

ROOM: Moora

1.1. 
Ecological restoration in marine ecosystems: lessons learnt, challenges and opportunities
ROOM: Teatrisaal

5.0. Restoration of grassland and dryland ecosystems
 
12:30-13:30

Lunch

 
13:30-14:30 ROOM: Bridge - BROADCAST!
Plenary session: Marko Kohv 
 
14:30-16:00

ROOM: Bridge

3.1. Restoration of wetlands: Pathways, trade-offs and co-benefits

ROOM: Hurt - BROADCAST!

9.1. Implementing the Nature Restoration Regulation: technical and legal challenges for National Plans across Europe

ROOM: Maailmafilm

7.2. On a way to European Mining Restoration Guidelines

ROOM: Manninen

4.0. Restoration
of forest ecosystems
ROOM: Moora

1.1. Ecological restoration in marine ecosystems: lessons learnt, challenges and opportunities
ROOM: Teatrisaal

5.0. Restoration of grassland and dryland ecosystems
 
16:00-17:00

Coffee break + poster session

 
17:00-18:30

ROOM: Bridge

3.3. Remote sensing of peatland ecology and restoration

ROOM: Hurt - BROADCAST!

12.0. Various topics of ecological restoration

ROOM: Maailmafilm

12.2. Native seeds interest and production in Europe as a growing and collaborative network

ROOM: Manninen

4.0. Restoration
of forest ecosystems
ROOM: Moora

9.4. Results-based payment schemes for habitat restoration and maintenance

ROOM: Teatrisaal

5.0. Restoration of grassland and dryland ecosystems

 
18:30-19:00 Group photo, gathering in the reception
20:00-23:00

Welcome reception at Barge Hall

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* Read more about sessions HERE.

 

 

WEDNESDAY, 28 AUGUST

08:30-15:00 Registration and info desk are open  
09:00-10:00

ROOM: Bridge BROADCAST!
Plenary session: Jonne Kotta

 
10:00-10:30

Coffee break

 
10:30-12:00

ROOM: Bridge

3.0. Restoration of wetland and peatland ecosystems

ROOM: Hurt - BROADCAST!

11.1. UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration and opportunities to support Europe’s restoration ambition

ROOM: Maailmafilm

2.0. Restoration of freshwater ecosystems
ROOM: Manninen

12.0. Various topics of ecological restoration

ROOM: Moora

1.2. Nature-based solutions for the effective protection and restoration of Baltic Sea ecosystems 

ROOM: Teatrisaal

8.0. Restoration of ecosystem functions, interactions and services in changing climate
 
12:00-13:00

Lunch

 
13:00-15:00

ROOM: Bridge

3.0. Restoration of wetland and peatland ecosystems

ROOM: Hurt - BROADCAST!

12.5. Education and Training to bridge the gap between Science, Practice and Policy of restoration

ROOM: Maailmafilm

2.1. Restoration of river connectivity: planning, implementation, monitoring, and assessment

ROOM: Manninen

13:00 - 14:00

11.2. Advancing the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration: collaboration, best practices and flagships

 

14:00 - 15:00

9.2. Standards-based restoration for elevating outcomes from the European Nature Restoration Regulation

ROOM: Moora

12.4. Restoring nature in the 21st century: Balance between ecological restoration and rewilding?

ROOM: Teatrisaal

8.1. Restoration of ecosystem functions, interactions and services in changing climate

ROOM: Kallas

5. Workshop: Co-designing a marine restoration toolbox with the Mission Ocean project CLIMAREST

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15:00-18:30

Half-day field tours

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19:30

Emerging ER Professionals gathering at the Gunpowder Cellar of Tartu

SERE’s Young#ER network will proudly host a gathering of Emerging Ecological Restoration Professionals from 19:30 at the Gunpowder Cellar of Tartu (Address: Lossi 28, 51003 Tartu, Estonia) on August 28th, 2024.

Please come join us (non-emerging professionals are also welcome) for an evening of relaxed networking in this historic and emblematic venue with the highest pub ceiling in the world! Drinks and food at attendees’ own expense.

 

 

* Read more about sessions HERE.

 

 

THURSDAY, 29 AUGUST

08:00-18:00 Registration and info desk are open
08:30-09:30

ROOM: Bridge - BROADCAST!
Plenary session: Annely Holm & Viljar Ilves

09:30-10:30 ROOM: Bridge BROADCAST!
Finance panel discussion, coffee break is served
10:30-12:00

ROOM: Bridge

3.0. Restoration of wetland and peatland ecosystems

ROOM: Hurt - BROADCAST!

10.1. Accelerating the achievement of EU nature restoration goals through LIFE
ROOM: Maailmafilm

7.4. 
Nature-Based Solutions: Examples of Soil and Water Bioengineering in Urban Restoration

ROOM: Manninen

1.1. 
Ecological restoration in marine ecosystems: lessons learnt, challenges and opportunities

 

2.1. Restoration of river connectivity: planning, implementation, monitoring, and assessment

ROOM: Moora

12.1. The added value of Long-term Ecological Research (eLTER) site network to upscale restoration
ROOM: Teatrisaal

5.0. Restoration of grassland and dryland ecosystems
12:00-13:00

Lunch

13:00-14:00

ROOM: Bridge - BROADCAST!

Plenary session: Jens-Christian Svenning

14:00-15:30

ROOM: Bridge

13.1A Measuring change at landscape scale: data collection and applications in restoration

ROOM: Hurt - BROADCAST!

13.3A Equitable and effective stakeholder engagement and co-produced solutions in landscape restoration

ROOM: Maailmafilm

13.2A Strategies for restoring at landscape scale

ROOM: Manninen

13.5A Unlocking landscape restoration finance in Europe
ROOM: Moora

13.4A Supporting restoration through the development of nature-positive economies
ROOM: Teatrisaal

12.7. Scaling-up restoration using limited interventions
15:30-16:30

Coffee break + poster session

16:30-18:00

ROOM: Bridge

13.1B Perspectives on the role of remote sensing for supporting restoration

ROOM: Hurt - BROADCAST!

13.2B Knowledge needed for large-scale/landscape restoration projects: scientific and experiential

ROOM: Maailmafilm

13.3B Workshop: Managing stakeholder conflicts in landscape restoration
ROOM: Manninen

13.5B Workshop: Unlocking private finance for ecosystem restoration
ROOM: Moora

13.4B Restoring natural processes and ecosystem function at landscape scale
ROOM: Teatrisaal

10.2. Fostering LIFE projects’ commitment to Principles & Standards for Ecological Restoration
20:00-00:00

Conference dinner at AHHAA centre

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* Read more about sessions HERE.

 

 

FRIDAY, 30 AUGUST

08:30-16:00 Registration and info desk are open
09:00-10:00

ROOM: Bridge - BROADCAST!
Plenary session: Catrin Westphal

10:00-10:30

Coffee break

10:30-12:00

ROOM: Bridge

8.2. Recovery of genetic diversity as part of restoring resilient ecosystems

ROOM: Hurt - BROADCAST!

10.1. Accelerating the achievement of EU nature restoration goals through LIFE

ROOM: Maailmafilm

7.1. Opportunities and challenges for ecological restoration in solar parks and wind farms

ROOM: Manninen

13.0 Landscape scale restoration action in Europe

ROOM: Moora

6.0. Returning biodiversity to agricultural ecosystems: above- and belowground

ROOM: Teatrisaal

5.0. Restoration of grassland and dryland ecosystems

12:00-13:00

Lunch

13:00-14:30

ROOM: Bridge

4.2. Pathways to peatland forest restoration

ROOM: Hurt - BROADCAST!

10.1. Accelerating the achievement of EU nature restoration goals through LIFE

ROOM: Maailmafilm

7.3. Ecological restoration in urbanized areas

 

ROOM: Manninen

12.3. Exploring ecological restoration through the lens of history
ROOM: Moora

6.0. Returning biodiversity to agricultural ecosystems: above- and belowground
ROOM: Teatrisaal

5.3. Floodplain Meadows - managing and restoring species-rich grasslands on floodplains
14:30-15:00  Coffee break
15:00-16:15

General assembly

16:15-17:00 Closing ceremony

 

* Read more about sessions HERE.

 

 

SATURDAY, 31 AUGUST

08:30 (bus leaves)

3. Crash course: Restoration of transition zones between ecosystems: example of lagg zone / transition zone in bog landscapes. Practical views and information (techniques) needed for planning and assessing results

 

NB! Buses leave Tartu at 8:30 on August 31. The course ends by 14:00 on September 1.

09:00 (buses leave) Full-day tours from Tartu (ending in Tallinn)
09:00-13:00

6. Workshop: Urban biodiversity friendly practices and biodiversity monitoring in Tartu city

09:00-14:30 2. Crash course: Direct Seed Harvest for Ecological Restoration of Grasslands
10:00-15:00

7. Workshop: New indicators for genetic diversity and how their application can aid ecological restoration

* Read more about workshops HERE and crash courses HERE.