Long pre-conference excursions

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

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

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

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

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Icebreaker (open-air event)

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ROOM: Bridge - BROADCAST!
Welcome session

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Plenary session: Florian Claeys

Coffee break

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

Lunch

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

Coffee break + poster session

ROOM: Bridge

3.3. Remote sensing of peatland ecology and restoration

ROOM: Maailmafilm

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

ROOM: Teatrisaal

5.0. Restoration of grassland and dryland ecosystems

Welcome reception at Barge Hall

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Plenary session: Jonne Kotta

Coffee break

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: Moora

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

Lunch

ROOM: Bridge

3.0. Restoration of wetland and peatland ecosystems

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: Kallas

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

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Half-day field tours

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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 28^th, 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.

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

ROOM: Bridge

3.0. Restoration of wetland and peatland ecosystems

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

Lunch

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Plenary session: Jens-Christian Svenning

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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

Coffee break + poster session

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

Conference dinner at AHHAA centre

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Plenary session: Catrin Westphal

Coffee break

ROOM: Bridge

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

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: Teatrisaal

5.0. Restoration of grassland and dryland ecosystems

Lunch

ROOM: Bridge

4.2. Pathways to peatland forest restoration

ROOM: Maailmafilm

7.3. Ecological restoration in urbanized areas

General assembly

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.

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

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