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EUROPARC Conference 2023 - Tribute to our landscape

REGISTER BEFORE 22 SEPTEMBER!

Registration will close soon, so make sure you register today! Our programme will combine the best of EUROPARC, like networking and knowledge sharing, with interactive sessions that allow you to work on current challenges together with peers. This year will be extra special, as we will also celebrate EUROPARC's 50th Anniversary.

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Program

The continuous, substantive binding line for all activities is how these subjects relate to the theme, ‘Tribute to our landscape, where nature and people meet in harmony’. This will be explored throughout the Conference in all planned sessions and activities – for example:

  • Keynote speakers: inspiring, international speakers will provoke ideas and thoughts about the meaning of landscapes and explore current transitions around climate, health and sustainable development. Time will be given for discussion, questions and interactions with Conference participants.
  • Inspiration sessions (workshops): a range of interactive and participative inspiration sessions, on subjects directly related to the relationships between landscapes, nature and people, will be organised. These sessions will include case-studies drawn from protected areas and National, Regional and Landscape Parks across Europe (such as the UNESCO World Heritage Wadden Sea). Each session will be led by experienced individuals from different countries. In collaboration with participating young people, three main conclusions from each session will be presented during the final day to be incorporated to the ‘Conference Statement’ (see below).
  • Fieldtrips: benefiting from the conference location, a range of field trips will be organised to link with examples related to the conference theme. Each trip will be inspiring and FUN and enable participants to learn and also share their experiences. During the outward journey to National Parks and sites located in and around the Wadden Sea area, interpretive guidance about landscape features will be provided by students.
  • Market Place: here, Europe’s Protected Areas/National Parks and participating partners have opportunities to share their work and projects. In 2021 everyone attending the conference can sign up for the Market Place. A limited number of places will be available and preference will be given to those presenting subjects and work related to the conference theme.
  • Statement: we intend to conclude with a ‘Conference Statement’. The goal of our statement will be to reflect:
    • Action points and challenges for ourselves – EUROPARC Federation, Protected Areas, National, Regional and Landscape Parks
    • Points of attention and action for policymakers about the important meaning of Protected Areas for our society.

Throughout the conference there will be lots of space for networking.

At the same time, specific attention will be given to the involvement of young people: as well as being integral to the whole conference, they will also have their own ‘special moments’!

Conference Program Monday 2 October

Registration (14.00-21.00 CET)  at Hotel World Trade Centre

EUROPARC Council meets Youth Core Team (18.00 CET)

 

Conference Program Tuesday 3 October

Registration starts  8.00CET at Hotel World Trade Centre

Registration EUROPARC Members General Assembly from 9.00-11.00 CET

EUROPARC Sections meeting (09.00 CET)

EUROPARC Assembly for members EF (11.00 CET)

Welcome (14.15 CET) in Leeuwarden by Mayor of Leeuwarden

Inspiration kick off (15.00 CET)

Presented by Prof. Matthijs Schouten and Young people about related to theme approach and our values and  behaviour, how to influence the role of people. 

Landscape Festival on the Marketplace (16.30 CET).                                                 

The conference will focus on knowledge transfer, meeting, information sharing and networking. managers and policy makers. During this festival, conference participants can learn about innovative developments, new approaches, methods and techniques that are useful in nature management and related areas are useful or already being applied.

We invite exhibitors: companies and organisations (National Parks, Protected Areas, Peri-urban Areas, Management and implementing organisations, EUROPARC Sections, EUROPARC Commissions, partners and entrepreneurs) with innovative products or processes in the field of nature management and nature experience, to present their products and applications. . At the Landscape Festival, experiencing and experiencing take centre stage. Exhibitors are asked to respond to this as much as possible by presenting interactive demos or experiences.

Registration for presentations is still possible (info@europarc2023.nl  or +31582502021)

Networking and walking dinner (18.00 CET)

Meeting EUROPARC Council and section chairs/representatives (20.00 CET)

 

Conference Program Wednesday 4 October

Start with Movie “Tribute to our Landscape (9.15 CET)

Opening conference (by special guest …speaker not clear yet)    with Introduction: Role young people in shaping the future with biodiverse nature  (title is not clear yet)

Keynote speakers:

  • Christiane van der Wal, Dutch Minister of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality  

Dutch approach about nature, biodiversity  and National Parks    (title and how to announce +/- 20 march)

  • Frans Timmermans EU, TBC (to be confirmed), (Vice-president European Commission:

EU Green Deal Policy challenges 

  • Prof dr. Louise E.M. Vet , former director Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW) and Emeritus Professor in Evolutionary Ecology (Wageningen University),

How to  improve biodiversity together? 

Coffee break

Our Landscape: learning from the past, preparing for the future (11.20 CET)

  • prof Dr. Ir. Theo Spek (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen) with students:

‘Landscape’: the relation between earth-nature-human

  • Introduction by Young person:

Young people meets  Michael Hosek, president EUROPARC Federation  and former  EF presidents

Lunch 12.30 (CET)

Inspiration sessions (workshops) (14.00 CET): we have a broad range of interactive and participative inspiration sessions, on subjects directly related to the relationships between landscapes, nature and people.  They are interactive, relevant and practical ( on different levels local or more general policy. Each session will be led by experienced individuals from different countries. The workshaps take 3 hours including break.

We ask participants in the registration form to choose which session is preferred, chose a first and a second preference.

Market Place (17.00-21.00 CET)) Networking

As at previous conferences, there will also be a Market Place in Leeuwarden with networking is central. Here, we can meet, inspire and share information.

For whom?

All European National Parks, protected natural areas, peri urban areas and  sections,  wordkingparties and  commisions of the EUROPARC Federation will have the opportunity to present themselves to the visitors of the EUROPARC Conference 2023.

Registration for presentations is still possible (info@europarc2023.nl  or +31582502021)

Networking and walking dinner (18.00 CET)

EUROPARC Sections meetings (Atlantic Isles, Nordic Baltic, French,....) (20.30-21.30 CET):

Conference Program Thursday 5 October

A wide range of field trips is  organized. Each trip will be inspiring and FUN and enable participants to learn and also share their experiences. During the outward journey to National Parks and sites located in and around the Wadden Sea area, interpretive guidance about different landscape features will be provided by students.

Buses will leave Leeuwarden depending on the Fieldtrip between 08.00 and 09.00 CET.  The buses will be in front of the World Trade Hotel.

We ask participants in the registration form to choose which fieldtrip is preferred, chose a first and a second preference.

Cultural event (17.00 CET) at  Natural History Museum Leeuwarden

The museum is open, inclusive underwater experience

Welcome and starter (17.30 CET)

Buffet (Dutch regional ‘stampot’ buffet)

Concert ‘Plant’ with Nienke Laverman? (20.00-20.45 CET)   in the Grote (Big)  or Jacobijner Church (near the museum)

Dessert and coffee

Conference Program Friday 6 October

Welcome and Where are we now? (09.00 CET) (Henk Smit with  Carol Ritchie)

(a look back on Wednesday and Thursday with interaction participants) Introduction on Friday inspiration sessions

Varieties of values and parks in our Landscapes.  ( 09.30 CET) Elements we need to find long-term harmony.  How do we harmonize? (Kristian Bjornstad / Henk Smit)

Coffee break (10.30 CET)

Get inspired at the (small) inspiration sessions with amongst other experience from the field. (11.00 CET)  They mainly focus on various real-life examples.

Those sessions last a maximum of 30 minutes each  and will be done 3 times each and will be repeated three times  in a row with 10 minutes change time between the sessions

The choice can be made on the morning itself, full is full.

Lunch  (12.50 CET)

Plenary completion meeting (14.15 CET) with Henk Smit/Carol Ritchie

Jan van de Venis (Statement):  

Building a joint Conference Statement together with our Young particpants ,  based on experiences and findings  during the Conference,  with conclusions and take home messages. To be finalized in this meeting and handed over to EUROPARC Federation.”conference review and conclusions

Break, free time (15.15-17.00 CET)

Award ceremony (17.00 CET)  at Theatre De Harmonie (Middenzaal)

Welcome chairman EUROPARC Federation Micael Hosek

Signing session of, among others Partnership Agreement EF and sections. Others may follow. Thanks Ceremonies, Flag handover, etc.

Closing the formal part conference, invitation for dinner  by  Hendrik Oosterveld

Bernike Band with “Earth”

Closing dinner (19.00 CET) Theatre De Harmonie (Middenzaal)

Farewell party   (21.00 CET) Theatre De Harmonie (Accentzaal)

Saturday 7  October

Travelday

 



This theme will follow us through the Conference in all planned sessions and activities – for example:

  • Keynote speakers: inspiring, international speakers will provoke ideas and thoughts about the meaning of landscapes and explore current transitions around climate, health and sustainable development. Time will be given for discussion, questions and interactions with Conference participants.
  • Inspiration sessions (workshops): a range of interactive and participative inspiration sessions, on subjects directly related to the relationships between landscapes, nature and people, will be organised. These sessions will include case-studies drawn from Protected Areas and National, Regional and Landscape Parks across Europe). Each session will be led by experienced individuals from different countries. 
  • Fieldtrips: benefiting from the conference location, a range of field trips will be organized. Each trip will be inspiring and FUN and enable participants to learn and also share their experiences. During the outward journey to National Parks and sites located in and around the Wadden Sea area, interpretive guidance about landscape features will be provided by students.
  • Market Place: here, Europe’s Protected Areas/National Parks and participating partners have opportunities to share their work and projects. In 2023 everyone attending the conference can sign up for the Market Place. A limited number of places will be available and preference will be given to those presenting subjects and work related to the conference theme.
  • Plenary completion meeting: conference review and conclusions

Throughout the conference there will be lots of space for networking.

At the same time, specific attention will be given to the involvement of young people: as well as being integral to the whole conference, they will also have their own ‘special moments’!

Presenting your innovative work at the EUROPARC Conference 2023!

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