The BC Europe Partners Meeting of 2022 was held between 30 November and 2 December 2022 at the ANL Conference Centre, in Laufen (Germany), for the first time after the pandemic. During three days, between 30th of November and 3th of December, 50 delegates from 27 countries participated in a great meeting with interesting discussions regarding butterfly monitoring and other insects.
We thank the organization made by ANL for supporting this meeting, taking care of the online retransmission and logistics. Also, to the SPRING project funding the event and BCE members and participants that enjoyed a great time, sharing ideas and good moments between us.
Participants of Laufen 2022
During the days of the Laufen meeting, the majority of the sessions were recorded. You can find the recorded videos of the sessions on the BCE YouTube channel:
Download the pdf of the Laufen Programme here (0.42 MB 
). The following links are to pdfs of presentations by the speakers in the programme:
Delegates arrive
Welcome by Sam Ellis, Chair BC Europe and Outline of meeting – Martin Warren, BC Europe.
Session 1: eBMS update
) – David Roy, UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (UKCEH)) – Reto Schmucki, UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (UKCEH)) – Cristina Sevilleja, Dutch BC); Turkey BMS-Evrim Karacetin (0.59 MB ); Spain BMS-Miguel Munguira (1.44 MB ); Portugal BMS-Eva Monteiro (1.50 MB ) and Bulgaria BMS-Zdravko Kolev (9.97 MB ).Welcoming speech – Dr. Christian Barth (Executive Chief of the Bavarian Ministry for environmental affairs, Munich) & Dieter Pasch (Director of ANL, Laufen)
One interactive break-out group
Session 2: SPRING project update
) – Josef Settele, UFZ, Germany) – Mark van Nieuwstadt, SPRING co-ordinator Task 2, Naturalis, The Netherlands) – Chris van Swaay, Dutch BCSession 3: Focusing on solutions (interactive session)
Session 4: Analysing eBMS Data
) – Reto Schmucki and David Roy, UKCEH
Another interactive break-out group
Session 5: Red List and Indicators
) – Chris van Swaay, Dutch BC) – Sam Ellis, Chair BC Europe) – Holly Mynott, BC UK) – Christian Stettmer, ANL, GermanySession 6: Policy
) (EU Biodiversity Strategy 2020, Pollinator Recovery Target and planned EU Nature Restoration Law)– Sue Collins, Policy Advisor, BC Europe) – Aidan Whitfield, Policy Advisor, BC Europe) Sue Collins, Policy Advisor, BC Europe) – Holly Mynott, BC UK) & Simona Bonelli-Italy (0.85 MB )
Fun Introduction
Session 7: EBMS tools
) – David Roy, UKCEH) – András Szabadfalvi, Hungary BMS) – Miguel L. Munguira, Spain BMSSession 8: Volunteers
) – Yolanda Melero, CREAF, Spain) – Simona Bonelli, Italy BMS) – Eglė Vičiuvienė, Lithuania BMS); Mikko Kuussaari-Finnish BMS (3.45 MB ); Elisabeth Kühn-German BMS (2.34 MB ) & Lars Pettersson-Swedish BMS (2.15 MB )General Discussion & Conclusion and Way ahead - Sue & Martin
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