28 October 2024
SHOWCASE is hosting an interactive workshop - organised by LEAF - on 22 November 2024, at Manor Farm, Wilton, United Kingdom, to explore the benefits of cover crops for both biodiversity and agricultural productivity. This workshop aims to bring together researchers, farmers and industry experts to co-design practical cover crop interventions that enhance...
23 October 2024
This year, SHOWCASE has organised a session during the 5th Ecosystems Services Partnership (ESP) conference, which will be held in Wageningen, the Netherlands on 18-22 November. The conference, under the theme “Ecosystem Services: One Planet, One Health”, is going to focus on the question of how ecosystem services concept can address the challenges...
18 October 2024
SHOWCASE member Dr. Ignasi Bartomeus (CSIC) opened the 8th Spanish Society of Applied Entomology (SEEA) Conference 2024 in Gijon, Spain on 7-11 October.
There, he presented his work on the conservation of pollinators in agricultural landscapes, as part of the project. In his presentation, Dr Bartomeus discussed the geographical context of Spain...
14 October 2024
SHOWCASE partner Monserrath Lascano from University of Bologna (UNIBO) presented early-stage research on integrating biodiversity conservation with agricultural productivity, as part of SHOWCASE, at the OpenDistal dissemination event organised by the University on 20 September, 2024.
Lascano's work, which focuses on the use of flower strips in stone...
30 September 2024
SHOWCASE partner, René van der Wal from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), contributed to EurSafe 2024 held in the centre of Food Valley in the Netherlands on 10-11 September. The conference, organised by Utrecht University and Wageningen University and Research, focused on the ethics of novel food production and consumption...
26 September 2024
SHOWCASE researcher Gyula Szabo from the Centre for Ecological Research (HUN-REN), presented research results from the Hungarian EBA in various conferences and events, such as the Congress of Hungarian Ecologists, the 9th Student Conference on Conservation Science and “Kert a köbön”. In his sessions, he showcased project results from the EBAs,...
24 September 2024
SHOWCASE took part in the AgriKultur Festival held in Berlin on 20-21 September, an event designed to bring together individuals and organisations dedicated to transforming the agri-food system, where about 500 participants attended from numerous fields, such as the general public, practitioners, etc. This festival served as a dynamic meeting place...
20 September 2024
SHOWCASE researchers presented project results on farmers’ perceptions, decision-making and networks towards biodiversity management at the LANDSCAPE 2024 Conference in Berlin on 17-19 September together with sister project FRAMEwork. This conference with the topic ‘Agroecosystems in Transformation: Visions, Technologies and Actors’ served as an important...
17 September 2024
PhD student Aki Kadulin from the SHOWCASE partner Estonian University of Life Sciences (EMU) participated in the Student Conference in Conservation Science (SCCS) in Balatonvilágos, Hungary on 10-14 September, 2024. Her poster presentation, titled “Socio-economic drivers for abandoning semi-natural grasslands in Europe”, focused on a study written by...
09 August 2024
Dr. Riho Marja, a former member of SHOWCASE, recently delivered a talk titled "Agri-environment schemes' effects on arthropods across European farmlands - results from three meta-analyses" at a COST Action webinar on 17 July, 2024. This webinar was part of the COST Action T0P-AGRI-Network initiative, which aims to transition towards agriculture free...
25 July 2024
SHOWCASE partners presented research results at 7th European Congress of Conservation Biology (ECCB) in Bologna, Italy, which took place on 17-21 June 2024. The focus of this year’s ECCB was on the positive message of becoming “Biodiversity positive by 2030”, which also calls for action towards the conservation of our planet’s biodiversity.
In...
28 June 2024
On 20-21 June, 2024, SHOWCASE partner University of Bologna (UNIBO) attended the 13th AIEAA Conference "The social sustainability of European agriculture facing old and new challenges.Issues, methods and policies” in Bari, Italy, where Monserrath Lascano and Stefano Targetti presented various project results. The conference addressed the complex and...