14 June 2024
SHOWCASE partner, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), will participate in the 7th European Congress of Conservation Biology (ECCB), which will take place on 17-21 June 2024, in Bologna, Italy. Kati Häfner, representing ZALF, will showcase research on farmer preferences for biodiversity labelling across Europe.
Kati’s presentation...
22 May 2024
SHOWCASE member Dr. Elena Velado-Alonso, representing CSIC, recently gave a presentation on her work within the project at a seminar held by Estación Biológica de Doñana, titled The SHOWCASE experience: Science communication, co-design & results from the Spanish intervention. The seminar presented the Spanish experience addressing important aspects...
16 May 2024
SHOWCASE project partners, Dr Indrek Melts and Ms Aki Kadulin from the Estonian University of Life Sciences, visited the University of Toyama in Japan, from 5 April to 27 April, to promote understanding and cooperation in the sustainable management of semi-natural grasslands. Ms Aki Kadulin's participation was funded by a scholarship from the Kristjan...
10 April 2024
On 8 April, SHOWCASE had its fourth workshop for Early Career Researchers (ECRs) led by Dr. Ignasi Bartomeus, representing EBD-CSIC (Doñana Biological Station). His research is focused on understanding how different drivers of global change are affecting biodiversity and ecosystems, with an emphasis on pollinators and their functions. With his rich...
09 February 2024
Researcher Aki Kadulin from the Estonian University of Life Sciences, and a member of SHOWCASE, attracted the audience with her poster presentation on 1-2 February 2024 at the annual conservation conference organised by the Estonian Nature Foundation in Tallinn, Estonia. This year the conference focused on the vital ecosystems of marine and wetland...
21 December 2023
Researchers Dr Amelia Hood and Dr Stuart Edwards from the University of Reading School of Agriculture presented their work within SHOWCASE at the British Ecological Society Annual Meeting 2023, held in Belfast. The event spanned over three days during which the researchers discussed the advantages and challenges of farmer-led research for designing...
24 November 2023
Shortly after passing SHOWCASE’s third-anniversary mark, team members gathered in Budapest, Hungary (20-23 November 2023) for their annual meeting. The gathering, hosted by partners from the Centre for Ecological Research (OK), reflected the project's transition to a more mature stage. Unlike previous meetings focused on planning future efforts,...
21 November 2023
On 18 November 2023, at the 15th ELLS Scientific Student Conference, Jevgenia Fjodorova presented her bachelor thesis about the impact of management and landscape features on butterfly assemblages in Estonian coastal grasslands, part of SHOWCASE’s Experimental Biodiversity Area. Access her presentation here.
Her study revealed a fascinating connection...
11 October 2023
SHOWCASE recently organised its third workshop for Early Career Researchers (ECRs) led by Prof. Simon Potts from the University of Reading on 10 October 2023.
As an expert in the science-policy interface, Simon focused on illustrating how scientific work can interact with policy and the value behind such initiatives. During the workshop, Simon shared...
29 September 2023
On 28 September 2023, Mylene Martinez, a PhD student from the Estonian University of Life Sciences, presented SHOWCASE preliminary findings at the 18th Eurasian Grassland Conference 2023. The conference was held in Szarvas, Hungary on 25-28 September, under the theme of “Conservation and management of grasslands in transforming landscapes”. Mylene's...
05 July 2023
The European Research Executive Agency (REA) organised a workshop on 10 October 2022 to examine the current status of pollinators. The discussions and results of the workshop are now available in a newly published EU report on the “Opportunities and knowledge gaps for EU Research and Innovation on pollinators”.
The workshop’s objective was to pinpoint...
04 July 2023
On 23 June 2023, SHOWCASE member Mylene Martinez from the Estonian University of Life Sciences presented her project results at a combined scientific conference: 18th Symposium of Polish Carabidologists and 9th Symposium of Baltic Coleopterologists. She presented preliminary results about ground beetles from SHOWCASE’s Estonian EBA, located along the...