Perspectives on biodiversity conservation priorities with a focus on pollinators
Costanza Geppert
In the context of this workshop, participants are expected to work in small groups to discuss their experiences as early career conservation biologists on conservation priorities. The workshop provides a collegial, supportive and safe environment for students to present their ideas.
Translating scientific evidence into policy and practice
Deepa Senapathi
Is it enough if we as scientists gather data, analyse it, and publish the evidence after robust peer review? How can scientific evidence be translated into effective policy and practice, and how necessary is it for early career researchers to consider the impact of their work beyond academia? This workshop will focus on the various pathways to impact and how good knowledge exchange practices can help scientific evidence reach policy and practitioner communities.
The Carpathian Convention and Sustainable Development: Interdisciplinary Systems Approaches to Explore Connections
Tamara Mitrofanenko (Workshop ProBioTIC-A)
The workshop introduces the framework of the Carpathian Convention, including its implementation mechanisms, research priorities and action strategies. Participants will then use creative methods to identify intersections between local and regional biodiversity promotion and broader sustainable development challenges.
Problem or Solution? The Impacts of Consumption and Production on Biodiversity
Agnieszka Wypych, Magdalena Kubal-Czerwinska (Workshop ProBioTIC-B)
The workshop builds on workshop A and takes a deeper look at the connections between consumption and production systems and local and regional biodiversity promotion. A specific focus will be on the impacts of consumption and production on biodiversity. But the workshop will also explore how consumers and producers view and frame biodiversity promotion as a cause, solution, and problem, and develop ideas on how consumers and producers can become part of the solution to biodiversity challenges, rather than part of the problem.
Promoting Biodiversity through Education for Sustainable Development and Transdisciplinary Learning Interventions
Daniel Fischer (Workshop ProBioTIC-C)
The workshop builds on workshops A and B by focussing on the learning processes that are required to shift mindsets and practices of stakeholders and develop feasible solutions to pressing biodiversity challenges in the Carpathian region. Specifically, participants will learn about transdisciplinary research and learning methods that have the potential to engage stakeholders in knowledge co-production and experimentation processes to instill real-world changes. As an outcome of the workshop, participants will have developed first idea sketches of transdisciplinary learning interventions that bridge the siloes between academic research and real-world action.
Introduction to meta-analysis in conservation biology
Péter Batáry
Meta-analysis as a statistical tool for quantitatively synthesizing primary researches has gained a great momentum in ecology during this millenium. Ecological questions can be answered by systematic reviews that identifies, appraises, selects and synthesizes all high quality relevant research evidences. Systematic reviews often use meta-analysis as statistical technique to combine results of the eligible studies. During the workshop the following statistical methods and problems will be discussed and used with real ecological data: calculation of effect sizes, cumulative effect size and heterogeneity, fixed- and random-effect meta-analysis, biases.