10th SCCS Europe
2-6 September 2025, Balatonvilágos, Hungary
Detailed programme:
2nd September (Tuesday):
afternoon, until 17:30 – Arrival at Balatonvilágos, Hungary
18:00 – 19:00 Dinner
19:30 – Evening get-together: to make this event more international, we would like to ask you to bring your local food and/or drink speciality for the get-together evening to increase the diversity of choices :)
3rd September (Wednesday): ProBioTIC day
08:00 – 08:45 Breakfast
08:45 – 09:15 Opening ceremony
09:15 – 10:00 Plenary
- Tom Breeze: Improving the cost-effectiveness of European Biodiversity Monitoring
10:00 – 10:45 Coffee break
10:45 – 12:00 Student session: ProBioTIC
- Carolin Breiholz: Citizen science in the Carpathians
- Boguslawa Przybylowska: The link between pastoralism and consumer education
- Julian Skórski & Roksana Twardawa & Łucja Winiarska & Anna Kopczak & Katarzyna Sekta: What’s rustling in the Carpathian meadows?
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch
13:00 – 14:30 Workshop
- Tamara Mitrofanenko: The Carpathian Convention and Sustainable Development: Interdisciplinary Systems Approaches to Explore Connections
14:30 – 14:45 Break
14:45 – 16:15 Workshop
- Agnieszka Wypych & Magdalena Kubal-Czerwińska: Learning for the Carpathians: Students Tackle Biodiversity & Sustainability
16:15 – 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 – 18:00 Workshop
- Senan Gardiner: Promoting Biodiversity through Education for Sustainable Development and Transdisciplinary Learning Interventions
18:00 – 19:00 Dinner
19:30 – Beer tasting at the local brewery (free and optional)
4th September (Thursday): SCB day
08:00 – 08:45 Breakfast
09:00 – 09:45 Plenary
- Laura Bosco: Understanding biodiversity responses to climate and landscape change across spatial scales
09:45 – 10:30 Student session: Plant Ecology
- Márton Zoltán Szabó: Abandoned Sand Quarries: Degraded Lands or Refugia?
- Coretor N. Kanyungulu: Advancing the knowledge of Kenya’s Macrolichen Diversity
- Reneema Hazarika: The Potential of Non-Native Trees to Replace Climate-Vulnerable European Native Species
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30 Workshop
- Tom Breeze: Overcoming challenges for engagement with biodiversity monitoring
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:00 Student session: Animal Ecology
- Andra - Claudia Neagu: Wildlife at Risk: Understanding the Drivers and Distribution of Poaching in Romania
- Mabel Narh: A Global Systematic Review of Roadkill of Avifauna: Towards a New Research Agenda
- Lilli Kuhtz: Tracking Habitat Use and Movement Decisions of Black Storks (Ciconia nigra) in Dynamic Inland Water Ecosystems
- Virág Németh: Native, diverse, sown wildflower patches enhance pollinators within a capital city of Eastern Europe
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 – 17:00 Workshop
- Laura Bosco: Using long-term monitoring data to research biodiversity responses to environmental change
17:00 – 18:00 Poster session
18:00 – 19:00 Dinner
5th September (Friday):
08:00 – 08:45 Breakfast
09:00 – 09:45 Plenary
- Tibor Erős: Saving freshwater biodiversity: Sustainable water management and land use design in the Anthropocene
09:45 – 10:15 Student session: Aquatic Ecology
- Dorina Nagy: Ecological Equivalence, Competitive Imbalance: Typha and Phragmites in the Littoral Zone of Lake Balaton
- Anna Szolnoki: Habitat specific whole lake survey of fish assemblages using eDNA metabarcoding and traditional methods
10:15 – 10:45 Coffee break
10:45 – 12:15 Workshop
- Neda Modova: Beyond the Paper: An Interactive Workshop on Science Communication for Early-Career Researchers
12:15 – 13:45 Lunch
13:45 – 14:45 Student session: Policy vs. Practice
- Rosalind Mackey: Conservation Infrastructure as Public Engagement for Climate Change Mitigation
- Rosie Bibby: Quantifying novel ecosystems
- Emanuele Miccolis: A Russian Doll in conservation: Misalignments between Italian biodiversity checklists, Red Lists and European legislations
- Iniunam A. Iniunam: Conservation in the Crossfire: Divergent Community Attitudes and Trade Pressures on the Yellow-casqued Hornbill
14:45 – 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 – 17:30 Poster session
17:30 – 18:00 Closing and award ceremony
18:00 – 19:00 Dinner
19:30 – Dance party
6th September (Saturday):
06:30 – 07:30 Breakfast
07:30 –14:00 Optional field trip to the Kis-Balaton in the area of the Balaton Uplands National Park
The field trip starts after breakfast at 7:30 and ends around 14:00 (exact details can be arranged during previous days) with a return to Balatonvilágos. Lunch is provided as lunch boxes. The impressive area of the Kis-Balaton is part of the Balaton Uplands National Park, where wetland reconstruction was conducted, which led to a rich avifauna. It is a 14 745-hectare Important Bird and Biodiversity Area (IBA), with the following bird species: Ixobrychus minutus; Nycticorax nycticorax; Ardeola ralloides; Egretta alba; Ardea purpurea; Platalea leucorodia; Anser fabalis; Anser albifrons; Anser anser etc.; See more: https://www.bfnp.hu/en/latogatohely/dias-island-fenekpuszta)
Recommended clothing: comfortable urban clothes and shoes for walking, rainy weather may occur.
See more:
Birdlife Hungary - Magyar Madártani és Természetvédelmi Egyesület: https://www.mme.hu/en
Homepage of the Balaton Uplands National Park: https://www.bfnp.hu/en
Details about the Kis-Balaton: https://www.bfnp.hu/en/tajegyseg/kis-balaton-en
Image film of the Balaton Uplands National Park with English subtitles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY8ardJGHZU