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15th European Ecological Federation Congress

& 18th Portuguese Ecological Society MeetingREPORT

Index

Description

Committees

The genesis of the congress

The 11 challenges

The congress in numbers

Invited speakers

Scientific programme

SDGs, topics and keywords

Programme overview

Debates

The geopolitics of global change

How is Ecology contributing to the accomplishment of the Sustainable

Development Goals?

Social programme

Ecology & Art

Awards

Sustainability measures

Outputs and impact

Partners

Exhibitors

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Event

Title

Abbreviation

Promoter

Local organiser

Main responsibles

Venue

Date

Official logo

Website

Social media

Official hashtag

Report authors

Report design

Contacts

15th European Ecological Federation Congress & 18th Portuguese Ecological

Society Meeting

Embedding Ecology in Sustainable Development Goals

EEFLisbon2019

European Ecological Federation (EEF)

Portuguese Ecological Society (SPECO)

Maria Amélia Martins-Loução and Cristina Máguas

Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal

July 29th to August 2nd 2019

Eeflisbon2019.org

Twitter - @eeflisbon2019

#EEFLisbon2019

Maria Amélia Martins-Loução and Rúben Oliveira

Rúben Oliveira

SPECO – Portuguese Ecological Society

Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon

Building C4, Floor 1, Room 4.1.10

1749-016 Lisbon - Portugal

Tel: +351 217500439

E-mail: [email protected]

Website: www.speco.pt

Description


Organising committee

Scientific committee

Commitees

Maria Amélia Martins-Loução University of Lisbon, Portugal

Alberto Basset University of Salento, Italy

Cristina Máguas University of Lisbon, Portugal

Daniel Montesinos University of Coimbra, Portugal

Emanuel Gonçalves Oceano Azul Foundation

Fernando Valladares Natural Sciences Museum, Spain

Filipa Lacerda Portuguese Ecological Society

Filipe Duarte Santos University of Lisbon, Portugal

Isabel Ferreira Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Portugal

Paulo Borges University of the Azores, Portugal

Rúben Oliveira Portuguese Ecological Society

Susana Gonçalves University of Coimbra, Portugal

Teresa Pinto Correia University of Évora, Portugal

Alberto Basset University of Salento, Italy

Ana Delicado University of Lisbon, Portugal

Ana Lillebo University of Aveiro, Portugal

Anabela Romano University of Algarve, Portugal

Andreia da Costa Silva University of Lisbon, Portugal

António Nóvoa UNESCO

Armin Bischoff University of Avignon, France

A. Paulo G. Almeida NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal

Carla Cruz University of Évora, Portugal

Carlos Pinto Gomes University of Évora, Portugal

Célia Marrasè Institute of Marine Sciences, Spain

Conceição Caldeira University of Lisbon, Portugal

Cristina Cruz University of Lisbon, Portugal

Cristina Máguas University of Lisbon, Portugal

Despoina Vokou Aristotle University, Greece

David Storch University of Prague, Czech Republic

Fernanda Cássio University of Minho, Portugal

Filomena Magalhães University of Lisbon, Portugal

Francisco Lloret University of Barcelona, Spain

Francisco Moreira University of Porto, Portugal

Helena Costa NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal

Helena Freitas University of Coimbra, Portugal

Henrique Cabral University of Lisbon, Portugal

Henrique Queiroga University of Aveiro, Portugal

Joana Robalo Univ. Inst. of Applied Psychology, Portugal


João Honrado University of Porto, Portugal

João Loureiro University of Coimbra, Portugal

João Rabaça University of Évora, Portugal

Joaquin Hortal Natural Sciences Museum, Spain

José Carlos Brito University of Porto, Portugal

José Matos INIAV, Portugal

José Pedro Granadeiro University of Lisbon, Portugal

José Pereira Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Portugal

José Saldanha Matos University of Lisbon, Portugal

Jutta Stadler UFZ Leipzig, Germany

Lúcia Guilhermino University of Porto, Portugal

Luisa Schmidt University of Lisbon, Portugal

Luis Inostroza Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

Margarida Reis University of Lisbon, Portugal

Maria Amélia Martins-Loução University of Lisbon, Portugal

Maria Antonieta Cunha e Sá NOVA University Lisbon, Portugal

Mário Carvalho University of Évora, Portugal

Maurice Hoffmann Ghent University, Belgium

Octávio Paulo University of Lisbon, Portugal

Pedro Pinho University of Lisbon, Portugal

Regina Cunha University of Algarve, Portugal

Richard Bardgett University of Manchester, United Kingdom

Rita Covas University of Porto, Portugal

Rui Cortes UTAD, Portugal

Sara Magalhães University of Lisbon, Portugal

Sílvio Mendes University of Lisbon, Portugal

Susana Rodriguez University of Coimbra, Portugal

Szabolcs Lengyel Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Tiago Domingos University of Lisbon, Portugal

Victor Vasconcelos University of Porto, Portugal


The

genesis

of thecongress

As the deadlines for the targets set by the United Nations Sustainable

Development Goals (SDGs) program are getting closer and closer, as well as

the shift of paradigms to the new time scales of 2030 and 2050, it is crucial to

look at the current scenario and understand what we have and haven’t achieved

so far. This is the only possible way to delineate new realistic objectives, that

consider the transversal contributions of the various areas of knowledge in the

listed goals.

Ecology and ecologists are now in a position as challenging as it is fortuitous,

especially because of the changing behaviors and visions of world society,

motivated by a greater awareness of environmental issues. The growing notion

of the multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary nature of ecology as a science,

and even as a movement, is driving the thinking and action trends of various

sectors, such as politics, health, education and economics.

Aligned and fully aware of this framework, the Portuguese Society of Ecology

(SPECO) proposed to the European Ecological Federation to dedicate the next

international event, which would take place in Portugal, to link Ecology with the

SDGs. Thus, the 15th European Ecological Federation Congress, simultaneously

18th Portuguese Ecological Society Meeting, was entitled “Ecology across

borders: Embedding Ecology in Sustainable Development Goals”. It is worth

noting that of the 17 SDGs, the congress highlights that 10, with different

prevalence, receive undeniable contributions not only from the entire scientific

community, but also from the business and industrial fabric whose activity

crosses the domain of ecology.

At national level, SPECO brought together 16 research units that work in the

various fields of ecology, as well as a considerable number public and private

partners and institutions. With 22 guest speakers of recognized international

merit and hundreds of scientists participating, the congress would provide the

perfect opportunity for top-quality discussions, the results of which are seen by

the organisation not only as the culmination of what has been done to date, but

also the starting point for what is to be done. Since the absence of a direct

connection to society would reduce the event to the academic community and

keep it from the motives behind its genesis, the organization decided to open

the first day to the general public. This decision, unprecedented in previous

editions, will broaden the discussion in the two debates that took place on 29

July, devoted (1) to the geopolitics of environmental change and (2) directly to

the role that ecology has been playing in the achievement of the SDGs. The event

will also feature open exhibitions by national and international artists - from the

fine arts, to sculpture, photography and film - focused on the interface with the

ecological sciences, ensuring coverage of a transcendent component with high

potential impact on all participants. As a final note, the happy coincidence with

the preparation of Lisbon Green Capital 2020 celebrations allows the event to be

part of a broad program of initiatives and practical measures for which the

knowledge of ecology is crucial.


The 11 challenges

We jumped from a research directed concept at the 14th EEF Congress, entitled

“Ecology across borders”, to a broader notion of ecology that aimed to engage

not only scientists, but also different stakeholders from the public and private

sectors. Setting “Embedding Ecology into Sustainable Development Goals” as the

official designation, required effective links between ecology, conservation,

evolution, genetics, environmental sciences, climate change, agriculture, social-

ecology, urbanism, economy, managers, and related disciplines.

1. Create a programme that stimulates highly qualified transdisciplinary

discussions;

2. Highlight what ecologists have done so far towards the success of the

SDGs and set a starting point for what still needs to be accomplished;

3. Encourage and strengthen partnerships between the participants;

4. Promote transgenerational discussions by including a greater amount of

young researchers in the scientific programme;

5. Designing an event as sustainable as possible;

6. Engaging non-scientific audience during and after the congress;

7. Produce solid and visible outputs.

Ten out of 17 SDGs were selected. These 10 SDGs were transformed in 12

topics at the congress, each one having their own keywords/research areas. The

SDGs “Life on Land” and “Partnerships for the Goals” were divided, giving rise to

4 topics. This decision as based on the broader number of research areas we

highlighted on those goals, and an expected higher demand towards them. The

organisation attributed tailor-made titles to the sessions inside each topic and

reduced the overlap of sessions from the same topic to the minimum possible.

SPECO brought together 16 Portuguese research units, covering all listed

research areas in the topics. We also engaged a considerable number of relevant

public and private partners and institutions.

Seventeen speakers of recognised international merit were invited. Twelve for

each of the selected topics and five plenary sessions with cross-cutting areas of

great interest in ecological knowledge. We endeavored to have gender parity but,

unfortunately, that was not entirely possible.

Widen the scope

Congress goals

Select the

Sustainable

Development

Goals

Select the partners

Select the invited

speakers


Since the absence of a direct connection to society would reduce the event to

the academic community and keep it from the motives behind its genesis, the

organisation decided to open the first day to the general public. This was a

decision, unprecedented in previous editions and allowed to broaden the

discussion in both debates during 29 July. The open programme included two

transdisciplinary debates (see “Debates” section) a plenary lectures by Arjen

Wals on socio-ecological challenges, and the possibility to visit all the “Ecology &

Art” exhibitions. The debates, plenary and keynote lectures were all

livestreamed and directly made available on SPECO's Youtube channel.

Art is being increasingly used as a tool of ecological awareness as well as a way

of communicating environmental problems. Therefore, the organization invited

national and international artists, from the fine arts, to sculpture, photography

and cinema, to exhibit their talent during the congress. All artists, on their own

way, focused on the interface with different ecological domains, assuring that,

if not all, most participants (and general audience) felt a connection with the

artworks.

Throughout the preparation of the Congress, SPECO took important measures

towards the sustainability of the event. The concerns included (1) merchandise,

(2) outreach materials, (3) catering, (4) waste valorisation, (5) mobility and even

interior design, trough (6) flower arrangements.

Beyond the scientific, the congress included a social programme with (1) a

welcome cocktail at the Lisbon Museum, with traditional Portuguese food and

drinks, as well as a musical performance by Lisbon’s Academic Tuna; (2) a social

sunset with free drinks and music; (3) Two thematic excursions, one to Sintra, an

UNESCO World Heritage Site, and the other to Arrábida Natural Park; and (4) the

congress dinner at Casa do Alentejo, an historical place on Lisbon’s downtown.

To ease the participation of families at the congress, we provided facilities

directed to parents with babies and young children, including a family room and

an area for breastfeeding. Moreover, there was a free childcare service, for

children from 0 to 16 years old, thanks to a local kindergarten and Lisbon Zoo.

Taking into consideration the scientific content, the importance of theme and the

moment in which it took place in Lisbon, the congress was part of the initiatives

promoted by Lisbon’s Municipality towards the preparation of Lisbon European

Green Capital 2020.

Engage society

Ecology & Art

Sustainable measures

Social programme

Helping families

Connecting to

Lisbon Green

Capital 2020


The

congress innumbers


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EEFLisbon2019 was experienced by a total of 506 participants, from 47

different countries, representing 5 continents. 302 of the participants were

women, while men were less, with 204 records.

The scientific programme was composed by 347 oral communications,

distributed by 61 sessions, plus 24 accepted symposia, and 87 posters

communications. The topic ”Biodiversity and Ecosystems” received the highest

amount of abstract submissions and, contrarily, the topic “Bio-economy and Eco-

solutions” was the least represented.

Regarding the presenting authors at the congress, 239 were classified as senior

researchers and 196 as MSc or PhD students.

506participants

302women

204men

347 oral

communications

61sessions

24 accepted

symposia

87posters

Biodiversity and

Ecosystems

Bio-economy and

Eco-solutions

196 MSc or

PhD students

239 senior

researchers

The organisation achieved a new record regarding previous editions of the

congress by inviting 22 speakers, divided by 5 plenary sessions, 12 keynote

sessions and 2 transdisciplinary debates.

By the first in an EEF congress, the programme had permanent art exhibitions. A

total of 7 national and international artists were invited.

Apart from the moments of leisure during the coffee and meal breaks, there a

social programme with 4 different opportunities for interaction between the

participants.

A final note of extreme appreciation towards the 28 volunteers that were crucial

to the success of the event.


22 invited

speakers

2 debates

5 plenary

sessions

12 keynote

sessions

7 artists

4 social

moments

28 volunteers

Invitedspeakers

Annemarie van Wezel

Prof. Dr Annemarie van Wezel (MSc Biology, PhD environmental chemistry and

toxicology) has long-term experience as scientist in toxicology and chemistry,

risk assessment and environmental policy evaluation. She managed various large

interdisciplinary research programs, such as ‘Environmental risks of

nanochemicals’ (€7.5million) in the FES funded NanonextNL, and ‘Shalegas and

Water’ (€1.8 million) funded by NWO. She is well-experienced in successfully

managing and building research groups up to ca. 60 people. She published 66

peer-reviewed papers, h-index 27. She is a member of the Dutch Health Council

and the Dutch Board on authorization of plant protection products and biocides

CTGB. She served as chief science officer and professor on Water quality and

health at KWR Watercycle Research Institute and Copernicus Institute of Utrecht

University. From January 2019, she is Scientific Director IBED (Institute for

Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics) at the University of Amsterdam and holds

the chair Environmental Ecology at IBED.

Arjen Evert Jan Wals

Arjen Wals is a Professor of Transformative Learning for Socio-Ecological

Sustainability at Wageningen University. He also holds the UNESCO Chair of

Social Learning and Sustainable Development. Furthermore he is a senior

advisor at the Gothenburg Centre for Sustainable Development (GMV). His

recent work focusses on transformative social learning in vital coalitions of

multiple stakeholders at the interface of science and society. His teaching and

research focus on designing learning processes and learning spaces that enable

people to contribute meaningfully sustainability. A central question in his work is:

how to create conditions that support (new) forms of learning which take full

advantage of the diversity, creativity and resourcefulness that is all around us,

but so far remain largely untapped in our search for a world that is more

sustainable than the one currently in prospect? In 2014 he was the lead author of

an article published in Science on the role of citizen science in bridging science

education, environmental education and sustainability. He is editor and co-editor

of a number of popular books including: ‘Higher Education and the Challenge of

Sustainability’ (Kluwer Academic, 2004), ‘Creating Sustainable Environments in

our Schools’ (Trentham, 2006), ‘Social Learning towards a Sustainable World’

(Wageningen Academic, 2007), ‘Learning for Sustainability in Times of

Accelerating Change’ (2012), and of Routledge’s International Handbook on

Environmental Education Research (2013). He writes a regular research blog that

signals developments in the emerging field of sustainability education:

www.transformativelearning.nl.

At EEFLisbon2019 thanks to:



Bénédicte Jacquemin Leonard

Bénédicte Jacquemin studied Medicine and has a Master in Environmental

Sciences (2005) and a PhD in environmental epidemiology (2007). She did a

postdoctoral at the Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale

(France) where she got a position in 2009. She is currently working at Research

Institute for Environmental and Occupational Health (Rennes, France) and works

closely with ISGlobal (Barcelona) where she stayed for 7 years. During her

medical career she became interested in research and participated in several

studies in the field of infectious diseases. By her doctorate, she worked in the

assessment of exposure of air pollution and its effects on respiratory health. She

currently focuses on the effects of air pollution on different health outcomes

including respiratory health, cancer and cognition. She is also developing a new

research area on the effects of air pollution on fertility/infertility.

Bernardo Ivo Cruz

Member of the Board and Executive Committee of SOFID (Portuguese

Sustainable Development Financial Institution) since June 2018, where he is

responsible for Risk Assessment and Legal departments, that include

Sustainable Development Goals implementation and impact assessment by

private sector investments. PhD in Political Science from the University of Bristol

in the United Kingdom, and a member of the respective Senate. He was Deputy

Under Secretary of State for the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Head of Office of the

Minister of State and Foreign Affair and led the Business Centers of AICEP -

Portuguese Investment and Foreign Trade Agency - in South America, UK and

Ireland. Founded and was Global Managing Partner of the London-based True

Bridge Consultancy Group, represented the Federation of Trade in Goods,

Services and Tourism São Paulo/Brazil in Europe, he was President of the

Portuguese Chamber of Commerce and Industry in the UK.

Charles Godfray

Sir Charles Godfray, Director of the Oxford Martin School and Professor of

Population Biology at Oxford University. He has broad interests in science and

the interplay of science and policy, at Oxford University and Imperial College. His

research has involved experimental and theoretical studies in population and

community ecology, epidemiology, and evolutionary biology. His current main

research project is on the control of malaria-vectoring mosquitoes using novel

genetic interventions. He is particularly interested in food security and chaired

the Lead Expert Group of the UK Government Office of Science’s Foresight

project on the Future of Food and Farming and is currently chair of the UK’s

Department of Food and Rural Affairs’ Science Advisory Council. He was elected

a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2001 and knighted in 2017.





Cristina Branquinho

Cristina Branquinho is a Professor at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of

Lisbon, at the Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes – cE3c.

Her main aim is improving human well-being through the understanding of the

effects of anthropogenic factors on the provision of ecosystem services. She

monitors the structure and functioning of natural, semi-natural and urban

ecosystems, and the development and implementation of strategies to mitigate,

adapt and restore ecosystem to global change. Her research is driven by three

overarching objectives: i) Understand the structure and functioning of dryland

ecosystems under environmental change scenarios; ii) Develop, test, model and

track early warning ecological indicators of environmental change factors at

global scale, as well as, ecotechnological solutions for restoring ecosystem

structure and functioning; iii) Understand the role of urban green areas and of its

biodiversity in ecosystem functioning and ecosystem services provision.

David Nabarro

Special Adviser to the United Nations (UN) Secretary-General on the 2030

Agenda for Sustainable Development and Climate Change and Special

Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Food Security and Nutrition, with

over 40 years of experience in international public health as a community-based

practitioner, educator, public servant, director and diplomat. In the past 12 years,

successive Secretaries-General of the UN have entrusted David to lead collective

action on some of the most pressing and complex challenges – responding to

avian and pandemic influenza, promoting food security, ending malnutrition,

combating Ebola, promoting the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and

advancing efforts relating to climate change. Since 2016 he has been the Special

Adviser to the UN Secretary-General on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable

Development and Climate Change. Currently, he is the Strategic Director of 4SD.

Dawn Sanders

Associate professor in biology didactics in the Faculty of Education, Gothenburg

University, Sweden. Her most recent research project: ‘Beyond plant blindness:

seeing the importance of plants for a sustainable world’ was a three-year cross-

disciplinary project funded by the Swedish Research Council. Part of the project

resulted in art-based installations at the Gothenburg Botanic Garden. Recent

publications include a book chapter “Seeing Green: The Climbing Other” and an

article “Trapped in Time: Lingering with “plantness”. Dawn trained in fine art and

ecology, and her doctoral study considered botanic gardens as environments for

learning. Dawn has developed and run science communication workshops for

doctoral science students at the Natural History Museum (London, UK) for ten

years. She is currently on the editorial board of the journal Plants, People, Planet.





Fernando Maestre

Fernando Maestre received his BsC. and PhD. in Biology from the University of

Alicante in 1998 and 2002, respectively. He did a post-doc at Duke University

(USA) and moved in 2005 to Rey Juan Carlos University (Spain), where he is a

Professor and leads the Dryland Ecology and Global Change Lab. His scientific

career has been mostly devoted to understanding how dryland ecosystems

work, and how they respond to ongoing global change. His research uses a wide

variety of tools and organisms, and spans from local to global scales. He has

published more than 200 articles in international journals and has received both

a Starting and a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council, and

multiple awards, as the Humboldt Research Award and the Prize for Young

Researchers in Life Sciences (Royal Spanish Academy of Sciences).

Helena Freitas

Helena Freitas is Full Professor of Biodiversity and Ecology at the Department of

Life Sciences of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the University of

Coimbra since 2003, and holds the UNESCO Chair in Biodiversity and

Conservation for Sustainable Development since 2014. She was Vice-Dean

(2011-2015), Director of the Botanical Garden of the University of Coimbra

(2004-2012), President of the League for the Protection of Nature (1999, 2002-

2005), founder and President of the Portuguese Society of Ecology (2004-2013)

and Vice-President of the European Society of Ecology (2009-2012). She

coordinated or participated in several national and international projects and

consortia, including the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. Currently, she is the

Coordinator of the Center for Functional Ecology - Science for People & the

Planet, Scientific Coordinator of FitoLab - Phytosanitary Laboratory of Pedro

Nunes Institute, and is part of the Scientific Council of the Department of Life

Sciences of the University of Coimbra.

Humberto Rosa

Director for Natural Capital in the Directorate-General for Environment of the

European Commission. Humberto Delgado Rosa was appointed as Director of

Directorate C (Mainstreaming Adaptation and Low Carbon Technology),

Directorate-General for Climate Action, European Commission, since January

2012. He has relevant experience in European and international environmental

policy, particularly in climate change issues. Having served as Secretary of State

for the Environment of the Portuguese Government from March 2005 to June

2011, he held responsibility in environmental issues in general, and particularly

in climate change, environmental impact assessment, pollution prevention and

control, air quality, noise, waste management, biodiversity and nature

conservation, sustainable development. During the Portuguese Presidency of the





EU in 2007, he acted as EU lead negotiator for the UN Climate Change

Conference, when the Bali Roadmap was approved, and he was involved in the

launch in Lisbon of the International Carbon Action Partnership, and of the

European Initiative on Business and Biodiversity. In 2005 he was elected Member

of the Portuguese Parliament for the Socialist Party, having interrupted his

mandate to integrate the Government. Between 1995 and 2002 he has served as

advisor for environmental matters to the Prime-Minister of Portugal.

José Manuel Félix Ribeiro

José Manuel Félix Ribeiro has a degree in Economics from the Instituto Superior

de Ciências Económicas e Financeiras (ISCEF), Lisbon Technical University, and a

PhD in Political Science and International Relations from NOVA University of

Lisbon. Among other positions, he joined the Department of Prospective and

Planning of the Ministry of Economy (1994-2011), where he was Deputy Director

General (1995-2007) with responsibility for the areas of Prospective and

International Information. Since 2004 he has been responsible for “Prospective"

courses to Civil Servants leaders taught by INA - National Institute of

Administration. Felix Ribeiro has published extensively focusing mainly on

international, geopolitical and strategic prospective economy. He is currently

professor in the Department of Political Studies, School of Social and Human

Sciences of the NOVA University of Lisbon.

Laura Airoldi

Laura Airoldi is an Associated Professor at the University of Bologna, Italy. She

received a Ph.D. in Marine Science from the University of Genova, and carried

out research in Italy, Australia, USA and UK. She has been a Fulbright Research

Fellow at Stanford University, an ECCo Fellow at Wesleyan University, a

LINKECOL Fellow at the Marine Biological Association UK. She serves the

editorial Board of Marine Ecology Progress Series. She co-leads the eco-

engineering workgroup within the World Harbour Project, is Regional Coordinator

for the Mediterranean Sea in the global Kelp Ecosystem Ecology Network, and

Coordinator and/or PI in (inter)national multidisciplinary projects on marine

biodiversity conservation. She is recognised as one of the forerunners of the

new field of marine urban ecology. Her research focuses on designing

conservation and restoration strategies in increasingly urbanized marine coastal

systems, including consideration of sustainable shoreline protection strategies,

coastal and offshore “green” infrastructures and nature-based solutions, aiming

to maximise environmental, societal and economic benefits.




Leen Gorissen

Leen Gorissen, PhD in Biology and founder of Studio Transitio is specialized in

transition research, regenerative design and bio-inspired innovation. From 2009

to 2017, she was a Transition Research Coordinator at the Flemish Institute for

Technological Research (VITO Belgium). As an innovation biologist and a

transition process facilitator at Studio Transitio, Leen has developed and

facilitated workshops on bio-inspired innovation for a broad range of businesses

and institutes including Triodos, SAS, Philips, Atlas Copco, Melotte, Business

Leaders, the Portuguese Business Council for Sustainable Development and the

European Environment Agency. She is certified in Transition thinking, Biomimicry

and Permaculture design and is a regular teacher in the nexxworks Innovation

Bootcamps. Leen has organised innovation sessions to learn from nature in

several countries taking bankers, executives and designers into the woods to

elucidate the regenerative nature of innovation.

Marco Moretti

Marco Moretti is a community ecologist working at the Swiss Federal Research

Institute WSL in Birmensdorf-Zurich, Switzerland. His research focuses on trait

mediated relationships between multi-trophic biodiversity, interaction networks

and ecosystem functioning. He addresses on fundamental and applied research

questions and combines manipulative and field experiments by investigating

causes and consequences of biodiversity changes in both natural and human

dominated ecosystems. In urban ecology, he leads trans- and interdisciplinary

projects on the ecological and social values of urban nature by collaborating with

ecologists, social scientists and psychologists. In particular, he investigates

direct and indirect effects of social and ecological drivers on ecosystem

processes and services, and tests if and how these are mediated by changes in

biodiversity and trophic interactions. He is a member of the Swiss Biodiversity

Forum and of UrBioNet, the Urban Biodiversity Research Coordination Network.

Miguel B. Araújo

Pessoa Prize 2018, Ernst Haeckel Prize 2019. Miguel B. Araújo is a world leader

in the study of climate change effects on biodiversity. His research has been

critical to the establishment of current best practices for modeling biodiversity

change through time and space and for assessing the broader consequences of

human activities in the natural world. His research involves three overarching

questions: 1) how did past climate changes affect the distribution and diversity

of life on earth? 2) how might current and future environmental changes affect

biodiversity? 3) how can biodiversity be conserved given current and future

challenges? To address these questions, he pioneered integration of global and

regional climate predictions with land cover maps and species distributions





databases. More recently, he incorporated descriptions of behavioural and

physiological traits of species, molecular phylogenies, and the fossil record into

geographical analysis of diversity and models of species distributions. Most of

his research involves statistical analyses of ecological data, including data

mining, modelling, and mathematical simulations, but large-scale experiments

are now being used for testing models and theory on the biogeography of

species distributions and interactions.

Mike Bruford

Molecular ecologist interested in studying the demographic and evolutionary

processes affecting populations, species and ecosystems of conservation

concern. His group focuses on elucidating the determinants of genomic diversity,

population structure and fitness at a variety of spatio-temporal scales. Projects

focus on trying to understand basic evolutionary processes in endangered

species but they also place substantial emphasis on provision of data and

recommendations to management authorities for action and policy development.

Studies cover a combination of wild and domestic species such as livestock

breeds, for which demographic history is often well understood and where

genome resources are abundant. The group uses methods from forensic DNA

profiling through to whole genome sequencing and integrate the data with

landscape analysis (GIS) and genealogical and stochastic population modelling

towards comprehensive information for biodiversity management and

conservation. Much of group work is carried out in collaboration with applied

conservation organisations, such as Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, Bristol

Zoo, Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, Ryeland and Lleyn Sheep Societies.

We also work directly within and in collaboration with the IUCN Species Survival

Commission, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation and Welsh Government.

Osvaldo Sala

Osvaldo Sala is the Julie A. Wrigley Chair, Regents' and Foundation Professor,

and founding director of the Global Drylands Center at ASU. Before arriving at

ASU, he was the Lindemann Professor of Biology and founding director of the

Environmental Change Initiative at Brown University. The research interests of

Osvaldo Sala include several topics, from the functioning of arid ecosystems to

ecosystem services and biodiversity, and encompass several scales from local to

global. Climate change will affect arid ecosystems primarily through changes in

water availability. Therefore, Osvaldo has focused a large part of his research

effort on understanding the effects of precipitation patterns in space and time on

primary production. His research has contributed to elucidating biogeochemical

and structural mechanisms explaining ecosystem lags to changes in water

availability. Osvaldo Sala also explored the consequences of changes in




biodiversity on the functioning of ecosystems. At the global scale, he has

developed scenarios of biodiversity change for the next 50 to 100 years. He is

particularly interested in working with scenarios as a way of simplifying,

understanding, and communicating the complex relationships that emerge from

the study of social-ecological systems. Professor Sala’s international and national

leadership includes service with the Scientific Committee of Problems of the

Environment; Millennium Assessment; IPCC and National Science Foundation. He

is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences;

Argentinean National Academy of Sciences; Argentinean National Academy of

Physical and Natural Sciences; and a Fellow of American Association for the

Advancement of Science. He is the President Elect of the Ecological Society of

America.

Rafael Sardá

Rafael Sardá, Senior Scientist of the National Council of Research of Spain

(CSIC), doing research at the Coastal and Marine Social-Ecological Systems Unit

of the CEAB. Academic Collaborator of the Operations, Innovation and Data

Sciences Department of ESADE Business School (www.esade.edu) teaching

Corporate Sustainability Courses, and cofounder of the Business and the

Environment group of the Global Alliance of Business Schools (CEMS). Rafael

Sardá develops research and applications in the frontier between social and

ecological systems, how they work and interact, how to cope with present and

emerging, local and global environmental problems and the role, if any, that

science and regulations might play in it. His most basic topics of research

include Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) and Ocean Governance,

Soft-bottom Marine Benthic Ecology, and Sustainability. He represents CSIC in

national and international expert group consultations on coastal and marine

research affairs.

Ricardo Trigo

Ricardo Trigo graduated in Physics and has a Master in Geophysics (1996) and a

PhD in Climatology (2000) obtained at the Climatic Research Unit, Norwich, UEA.

He is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of

Lisbon and director of Instituto Dom Luis. His main research activity has been

focused on the impact of different types of weather driven natural hazards with

particular emphasis to floods, droughts, heatwaves and wildfires. In particular

how these phenomena are related to specific atmospheric circulation patterns

such as the North Atlantic Oscillation, Blocking highs or Atmospheric Rivers. He

has also applied remote sensing methods to evaluate the impact of droughts and

large fires in the Mediterranean region. He has published extensively often in

cooperation with colleagues from different disciplines. In 2008 he was awarded




with the International Journal of Climatology Prize endorsed by the Royal

Meteorological Society, UK.

Ruben Heleno

Ruben Heleno coordinates the Ecological Networks research group at the Centre

for Functional Ecology of the University of Coimbra. He obtained his PhD in the

UK in 2009 when looking at the impact of alien plants on Azorean food webs.

Since then he continued to use species interaction networks to explore the

driving rules of community assembly and collapse under different environmental

stressors. Most of his research has been focused around oceanic islands, with

long term studies in the Galapagos and related work in the Azores, Seychelles,

São Tomé, Berlengas and Mozambique. Initially interested in seed dispersal and

pollination networks, he is now looking for ways to combine mutualistic and

antagonistic interactions under a unified multilayer network approach, bringing

us closer to understand the intrinsic complexity of natural communities and its

implications for ecology, evolution and conservation.

Wolfgang Cramer

Wolfgang Cramer is an environmental geographer and global ecologist and

scientific director at the Mediterranean Institute for Biodiversity and Ecology

(IMBE), in Aix-en-Provence, Marseille and Avignon (France), since the

establishment of the institute in 2012. The scientific contributions by Cramer’s

research group were initially in the area of modelling forest dynamics under

climate change. He then began to seek a broader understanding of biosphere

dynamics at the global and continental scale, including aspects of natural and

human disturbance as well as biodiversity. He has been directing a large

European ecosystem modelling project, ATEAM (EU FP5), as well as its

companion outreach activity, AVEC. Together, these projects have resulted in the

first ever region-specific and comprehensive ecosystem service assessment

across Europe, communicated through the scientific literature as well as through

an intensive stakeholder dialogue. He is a contributor to the IPCC and the

Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. He is Chair of the Science Committee of

ecoSERVICES and serves regularly as advisor of the German government and

the EU Research Directorate.




Scientific

programme

SDGs, Topics & Keywords

Topic 1 – Environmental risks and health

Biomonitoring. Pollution exposure. Sustainable decision making. Environmental

impacts. Chemical risks. Prevention hazard risks. Supporting ecological research

for better health achievements.

Topic 2 – Science communication

Building bridges between society and ecological sustainability. Citizen science.

Inclusive ecological education. Innovative methods. Learning from nature.

Learning processes. Socio-ecological challenges.

Topic 3 – Freshwater ecology

Strategies for sustainable use of earth surface waters. Conservation. Eco-

hydrology. Ecosystem processes. Groundwater. Invasive species. Water quality

assessment. Watershed management.

Topic 4 – Bio-economy and Eco-solutions

Promoting resilient and innovative solutions. Blue economy. Biomaterials.

Biomimicry. Green economy. Recyclable processes. Renewable products.

Technological innovations.

Topic 5 – Urban sustainability

Solutions to sustainable and resilient urban environments. Landscape planning.

Urban adaptation to climate change. Urban ecology. Urban greening. Trophic

guilds. Zero waste solutions.

Topic 6 – Sustainable agro-ecosystems

Promoting food production under sustainable practices. Biofertilisers.

Biopesticides. Food security. Rural development and traditional practices. Soil

biodiversity. Sustainable intensive agriculture.


Topic 7 – Climate and Global Changes

Minimisation and mitigation actions. Adaptation and acclimation. Resilience.

Modelling and scenarios. Social and environmental impacts. Ecosystem

responses. Eco-technological tools: adapting from nature.

Topic 8 – Marine ecology

Conserve and sustainably use oceans, seas and marine resources. Biodiversity

conservation. Evolution and adaptation. Marine ecosystem services. Governance.

Pollution. Risk assessment.

Topic 9 – Biodiversity and ecosystems

Protecting key biodiversity areas and sustainably use of land resources.

Community and population dynamics. Conservation. Ecosystem services.

Forests. High nature value farmlands. Invasive species. Landscape ecology. Land

management. Microbial ecology.

Topic 10 - Land degradation and ecosystem restoration

Restore, halt or reverse land degradation and biodiversity loss. Assessment and

management. Ecological and social indicators. Methodological tools. Nature-

based solutions. Population and community strategies. Regaining land structure

and function.

Topic 11 - Ecological networks

Ecological multilayer networks, species behaviour and interactions. Ecological

succession. Food webs. Genetic interactions and evolution. Networking at

population and community level. Population strategies. Socioecology. Soil-plant-

animal interactions.

Topic 12 - Theoretical and Evolutionary Ecology

Micro- and macro- ecological and evolutionary processes. Biogeography and

distribution. Diversity, adaptation and evolution. Conservation genetics.

Modelling. Molecular ecology and evolution. Physiological responses. Population

genetics and phylogenetics.


Programme overview


Debates

The geopolitics of global change

We debated and reflected on what geopolitics and the environment have in

common, and how the power balances and dynamics of the international

system relate to climate change and ecology.

The origins of climate change have to do with three major and very recent

accelerations: one of these was the rapid population growth that followed the

industrial and green revolutions, which led to an exponential increase in

demographics from 1 billion people in the early 19th century to 8 billion, which is

expected to be achieved in the coming years; a second was the correlative

increase in consumption, which has been more than commensurate with

population growth, as the middle classes expand in rich countries and now also

in emerging and developing economies, placing enormous pressures on

resources such as arable land and water; the third concerns consumption

patterns, especially of fossil fuels which were formed hundreds of millions of

years ago and are now being depleted at increasing rates.

Geopolitics is greatly affected by climate change. Water availability and

distribution, the advent of heat waves and their consequences for humans and

vegetation, the acceleration of sea level rise, the creation of new sea lanes

induced by melting ice caps, the exploitation of resources in the Arctic and

Antarctica are some examples of the impact of climate change on geopolitics.

Falling demographic growth rates and technological advances offer solutions to

some of the problems; But climate change is now the most worrying global

change.

Invited panel:

Bernardo Ivo Cruz

Helena Freitas

José Félix Ribeiro

Miguel B. Araújo

Moderated by:

Leonídio Ferreira


How is Ecology contributing to the accomplishment of the

Sustainable Development Goals?

The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) has been leading the

implementation of the sustainable development goals (SDGs). These are multiple

goals, some of them interconnected that prove the need of a policy expertise as

well as an interdisciplinary approach to tackle the different targets.

UNDP gives support to the developmental plans and policies within countries,

but Nature has no boarders, as it is conveyed in world commissions of climate,

water, desertification, etc. When we harm Nature we need to expect

environmental and social changes. However, people seem more disconnected

from nature problems as technology offers more “solutions” and opportunities.

Ecologists can help people to perceive that defense of our resources is just as

important as defense abroad. This means that conventional policy tools could

not satisfy social SDGs unless at prices that create unsustainable and wasteful

natural resources.

Ecologists contribute to filling the knowledge gap with regards to ecosystem

complexities. Today, Ecology is providing the knowledge necessary for helping

reach the SGDs converted in the so-called Agenda 2030.

This debate opened the opportunity to discuss present days issues related to

strategies to fulfil the Agenda 2030. Ultimately, it aim to reinforce and clarify the

role of two different groups: (i) policy makers, as developers of policies based

on societal and environmental values, and (ii) ecologists, as providers of

expertise and solutions to achieve the Goals.

Invited panel:

Arjen Wals

David Nabarro

Humberto Rosa

Laura Airoldi

Osvaldo Sala

Moderated by:

José Vítor Malheiros


Socialprogramme

Apart from the moments of leisure during the coffee and meal breaks, the

organization was particularly concerned not only with providing and stimulating

social interactions, but also with the dissemination of the Portuguese natural

and cultural heritage. This why the programme included 4 moments that

incorporated this dual vision.

The welcome cocktail took place at Pimenta Palace, an 18th-century Portuguese

palace that hosts the main campus of the Lisbon Museum. Besides the

traditional Portuguese food that was served, this evening has also been marked

by the musical performance of Lisbon’s Academic Tuna (Estudantina

Universitária de Lisboa). The Tuna was founded in 1992 by students registered at

the various universities of this city, that aimed to promote and honour

Portuguese popular music.

Tuesday afternoon ended with a social sunset with free snacks, drinks and

music. It was also the moment for Evgenia Emets to read a few lines of poem of

her own making, focused on the natural connection between people and forests.

The participants had the opportunity to visit Arrábida Natural Park or Sintra.

Located next to the sea, 50km south of Lisbon, Arrábida Natural Park has

incomparable natural beauty, where the blue of the sea alternates with the

white tones of the chalk cliffs and the depths of the green vegetation that

covers the mountain range. One of the rare examples of Mediterranean maquis

in Portugal can be found here, and its preservation was one of the reasons which

led the Arrábida zone to be considered as a genuine international scientific relic.

Rich in peculiar biodiversity, this natural hotspot together with the neighbouring

estuary of Sado river preserve their own singularity and beauty.

Sintra gained the UNESCO Cultural Landscape classification in 1995. The town

and the northern slope of the Serra de Sintra with its wonderful natural

characteristics and impressive historic landmarks were thus accepted as worthy

of world heritage status. In pre-modern times, the region was known as the

Mountain of the Moon and linked to prehistoric religious practices. Sintra's

defining era proved to be the 19th century when it was swept up in the Romantic

movement. Dating from this period are the Pena Palace, the Monserrate Palace,

and Quinta da Regaleira, among others. Each represents a good example on how

Romantic inspiration came to endow an environment of mystery and magic.

The parks are staged to feature small ponds, nooks, false caves and secret paths

leading harmoniously through the thick foliage.

Finally, the congress dinner was a very joyful moment that took place at Casa do

Alentejo, in the heart of Lisbon. Casa do Alentejo is more than a restaurant, it is a

real institution representing the Alentejo region in Lisbon, that is intrinsically

linked to the history of the capital. It is housed in an old palace with an

impressive Arabic decoration.

Welcome cocktail

Social sunset

Excursions

Congress dinner


Ecology& Art

Carolien Adriaansche | Visual art

As a visual artist, Carolien mainly works with plastic waste. This waste forms the

basis of her work. We live in a plastic world, we use plastic and we pay with

plastic. The collection and subsequent selection of plastic waste by shape, colour

and size is an essential part of her work. That means it is necessary for Carolien

to collect a large amount of waste in my studio, helped by family, friends,

colleagues and relations. You can easily call her a waste processing company.

Inspired by the collections in various Natural History museums such as Het

Natuurhistorisch in Rotterdam, American Museum of Natural History in New York

and the MUHNAC in Lisbon, she creates from waste, which is one of the causes

of the decline in biodiversity, collections with 'new 'biodiversity that she has

granted. These collections are arranged by species and subspecies and have a

fictitious Latin name. After hrt studies at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy as a theatre

designer, since 2005 Carolien has been developing recycling workshops under

the name “De Afvaljuf” after taking part in the Professional Art in the Classroom.

In addition to standard workshops, she offers projects, lesson boxes and tailor-

made workshops for schools, cultural institutions and the business community.

In her work as a visual artist and De Afvaljuf she connects culture with

sustainability. Reuse and therefore recycling, upcycling and mixed design are

therefore my substantive starting points. The result of these activities is that I

have been asked to participate in distinctive projects commissioned by Ja

Natuurlijk, the Van Gogh Museum, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Greenpeace and

the Amsterdam Light Festival.

César Garcia | Photography

César received a PhD in Ecology from the University of Lisbon in 2006 and is

currently working in the Natural History & Systematics group at the Centre for

Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes cE3c. He is the curator of the

bryophyte collection and Post-Doc at the National Museum of Natural History

and Science. Since 1996, his research is focused on ecology of bryophytes,

taxonomy, climate changes, monitorization and conservation.

The main objective of his PhD thesis was to contribute to the knowledge and

characterization of the epiphytic bryological biodiversity of the natural oak

forests’ communities in Portugal, mainly in Natura 2000 network. Since 2007,

César has developed a Post-doc on the characterization of the main bryophyte

communities in São Tomé e Príncipe Archipelago with special emphasis on the

epiphytic vegetation from primary and secondary forests. He has recently

collaborated in the production of the Atlas and Red Book of Threatened

Bryophytes of Portugal providing an updated knowledge on the bryophyte

species of mainland Portugal from a conservation perspective, based on the

criteria and threat categories produced by the International Union for the

Conservation of Nature. Since 1996, he collected about 15000 specimens of

bryophytes harboured in the LISU herbarium (University of Lisbon).

All photos used in the layouts and image of the congress congress were kindly

given by César.



Daniel Pinheiro | Documentary

Portuguese photographer and director, specialized in natural history, founder of

Wildstep Productions. With a master’s degree in wildlife Documentary Production

from the University of Salford, England, Daniel learned from various

professionals from the BBC's Natural History Unit, including Sir David

Attenborough, Paul Reddish, Niel Lucas and others.

He also has a degree in Multimedia Communication and Design from the

Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra. His productions were broadcast by two major

national channels, obtaining audience records in the natural history format on

Portuguese television. The productions were also awarded prizes at several

Portuguese film festivals. He has participated in several productions in Portugal,

Spain, Peru, Brazil and Argentina, highlighting the series "Wild Untamed Brazil"

for National Geographic Channel.

As a nature photographer he has published in National Geographic Magazine, NG

Website, Terre Sauvage, Asferico, The Telegraph, Vanity Fair Italy among others.

He was distinguished in several international contests: National Geographic

Photo Contest, Nature Image Awards, Asferico Photo Contest and Oasis Photo

Contest. Guest speaker at conferences, schools and universities. In 2012, he was

awarded the "Seeds of Science" Award for the scientific relevance of his work

and the dissemination of natural values.

Emanuel Gonçalves | Underwater photography

Marine ecologist working on marine conservation and ecology. Amateur

underwater photographer.

Member of the Board of Directors of the Oceano Azul Foundation. Vice-Director

of MARE – Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre. Associate Professor at

ISPA – Instituto Universitário (Portugal) and President of General Assembly of

ISPA,CRL, the cooperative that runs the Institute. His research interests are

marine conservation (in particular the role of marine protected areas for ocean

governance), marine ecology and connectivity in marine ecosystems, behaviour

of marine animals, in particular fish, larval ecology and recruitment processes.

Has been involved in the creation, monitoring and implementation of Marine

Protected Areas in several regions, including discussions on the high seas.

Deputy-head of the Portuguese Task Group for Maritime Affairs which

contributed to the approval and implementation of the National Ocean Strategy.

Coordinator of the European Union Group that led the negotiations on marine

and coastal issues at the 9th Conference of the Parties of the Convention of

Biological Diversity, which approved the CDB Scientific Criteria for Identifying

Ecologically or Biologically Significant Areas (EBSAs) in the marine realm (the

Azores Criteria). Is a member of the National Council of Environment and

Sustainable Development (Portugal).


Evgenia Emets | Visual poetry

Evgenia Emets started as a photographer on the cusp of the growing

photography movement in 2000 in Moscow. Her work gradually unfolded from

direct portraiture to complex abstract and geometric work. In 2007, Evgenia

moved to London and graduated with her MA in Fine Art from Central Saint

Martin’s College of Art in 2008. She presented an immersive holographic and

sound installation as her graduation work. In 2010 she founded Analema Group

arts collective whose ongoing project KIMA explores the art and science of visual

sound. Site-specific interactive performances and installation took place

throughout 2013-2017 in the UK and Europe.

Evgenia has been working on integrating poetry she has been writing since she

was 14 into her art practice. She creates works on the intersection of sound and

visual poetry through artist books, calligraphy, performance, and objects. She

actively works with languages, drawing inspiration from possible hidden

relationships and common roots between distant families. She often de-

constructs language exploring its underlying meaning through the power of

sound.

Born in the USSR and coming from a multicultural background, Evgenia has

changed homes and countries many times. Today she lives Portugal, learning a

new language, working on new projects, embracing and negotiating cultural,

historical, and environmental legacies of her new home country.

Xico Gaivota | Sculpture

Ricardo Ramos, or Xico Gaivota, was born in Lisbon in 1978. First with wood,

then with iron, paper, fiberglass or stone, Ricardo always surprised us with his

creations, and although everyone encouraged him to hold on to his talent and to

keep on creating, he seemed to show some lack of interest once he overcame

the challenge that led him to explore each material.

The relationship between Ricardo and the sea is special and it goes back to his

childhood. After many years living at and from the sea, and with the birth of his

children, he felt the need to share his passion and way of life, starting, without

noticing, to act with determination towards the problems that impact not only the

future generations, but also our generation. Ricardo soon realised that all the

beaches with no commercial exploration and specially the ones with tough

access, much of them of a singular beauty, withhold all the shame of humankind

in the form of trash, mainly plastic.

Driven by a passion and fascination by plastic fragments, aside from the

environmental need to collect them and keep them away from nature, he is

always thinking different possibilities to use them in his works. He looks for them

as if they were a treasure, with its perfectly rounded edges, vibrant or worn

colours and incredible shapes, alongside with the journey they had until they

ended up in his hands. Once he collects it, it stops being trash and becomes

pieces worth of respect. Pieces that Ricardo puts together, but does not

manipulate, paint, cut or fold.


Vanessa Barragão | Textile design

Studio Vanessa Barragão is a design studio focusing on the artisanal techniques

and wasted yarns from the industry to produce textiles and products for

interiors.

Growing up in the seaside, her connection to the ocean is the inspiration for her

artworks. Vanessa Barragão’s work is characterized by her captivating

environments of coral reefs, cleverly combining craft and recycled materials into

unique and luxurious sculptural carpets and tapestries for floors and walls.

Vanessa was born in Albufeira, in the south of Portugal. Her studio was founded

in 2014 when she attended a master’s degree at the Lisbon University in fashion

and textiles design. There she developed her first wool yarn collection and

tapestries through an ecological artisanal process.

Currently, she is based in Porto, the Northern region of Portugal where the

nation’s textile industry core is located, and divides her time between

collaborating as a textile designer for an artisanal rugs factory and running her

studio. The textile industry is one of the most polluting in the world. In almost

everything process chemicals are used, specially when it comes to the fibres

treatment and dyeing. All the machinery used requires tons of energy while

producing a lot of waste and disposable trash. It is extremely harmful for our

world and it affects all of its different natural environments, particularly the ocean

which absorbs 90% of the atmosphere pollution, warming up itself to the point

that so many species get threatened, being the corals, who sustain so many

other creatures, one of the most endangered ones.

Vanessa believes in an upcycling effort towards the right way to try to fight

against this kind of negative mindset described above. All the materials used

come from the dead stock of several local factories which is first cleaned and

then selected to recycle and reuse in her projects. Her production is completely

artisanal and handmade by using ancestral techniques, like latch hook, felt,

knitting, macramé and crochet, to create her artworks.


Awards

The Portuguese PhD in Ecology Award is kindly funded by Fundação Amadeu

Dias. The awardees have inclusively presented their winning projects during the

last session of the congress. Awardees:

1st place - Francisco Pina-Martins, University of Lisbon, Portugal

2nd place – Adrià López-Baucells, University of Lisbon, Portugal

3rd place – Inês Teixeira Gomes, University of Aveiro, Portugal

1st place, offered by EEF – Sílvia Castro, University of Coimbra, Portugal

2nd place, offered by SPECO – Jamie Ashton, University British Columbia, Canada

3rd place, offered by Transmitting Science – attributed in ex aequo to Arunava

Pradhan, University of Minho, Portugal, and Francisco de Azevedo e Silva,

University of Lisbon, Portugal

1st place, offered by Ecography – Vojsava Gjoni, University of Salento, Italy

2nd place, offered by Ecography – Víctor M. Escobedo, University of Serena, Chile

3rd place, offered by Ecography – Carolina Madeira, University of Lisbon, Portugal

Honorable mention, offered by Ecography – Ivânia Esteves, University of

Coimbra, Portugal

Public choice, offered by Transmitting Science - Frederico Almada, Universitary

Institute of Applied Psychology, Portugal

Portuguese PhD in

Ecology Award

Best oral

communications

Best poster

communications


Sustainabilitymeasures

Thoughtful and

useful merchandise

Catering decisions

Participants received bags, created by Greenbags, a young Portuguese company,

dynamic and concerned with sustainable development. It sells and develops

environmentally friendly products without compromising future generations. The

company guarantees the quality of materials. The bags are a national product,

created with organic cotton and OEKO-TEX® certified. Beyond their use during

the congress, the bags can also be used for shopping bulk food, such as

bread, fruit and vegetables.

The congress short notebooks were created by using stored paper, offered to

SPECO many years ago. The organization thought in a way of using the

notebooks, not only for its practical function during the congress, but also to

have an impact and sensitivity whoever look at them. Twenty of César Garcia’s

photos were carefully chosen to depict Portuguese iconic biodiversity and

landscapes, giving sense to the sentence “an image is worth a thousand words”.

The notebooks will be used in SPECO’s future initiatives, thus reinforcing their

aim by raising positive reactions in the Portuguese public, familiar to the

images. This was the reason behind the decision of having coloured covers

rather than simpler ones. All paper sheets are FSC and ISO 14001 certified.

The pens were made with PET plastic from recycled bottles, kindly provided by

Ciência Viva, the Portuguese Agency for Scientific and Technological Culture.

The lanyards were handcrafted with an organic cotton thread acquired in a local

store. Since we minimized the use of printed documents, the personal

identification of each participant, the programme summary, map and other

useful information were put in a single leaflet, attached to the lanyard. There

was no need to use the traditional plastic bag. The organization also promoted an

online-based dissemination of the congress.

The participants received a reusable water bottle “Fill Forever”, provided by

EPAL, meant – and encouraged by the organization – to be filled with drinking

tap water. Weighs only 27.5 g, produced in PET with optimised consumption of

materials and energy. The neck and cap contain 40% less material, and the H2O

symbol printed without the addition of labels and glue, making it a more

environmentally friendly choice

Two printed large canvases exhibited at the venue will have a second life. They

were handed over to “Formª”, a Portuguese company that transform them into

useful design objects. The decorations used will be reused. With these and

other initiatives we move towards a more circular economy.

At any time, apart from the identification leaflet, every other material could be

returned to the congress staff, in order to be reused in future events.

There were no plastic or paper disposable crockery. In the conference rooms

and during catering, tap water was served in jugs or glass bottles. The catering

was inspired in our gastronomic tradition, aligned with the Mediterranean diet. It

seeks to offer a healthy and balanced diet, facilitating seasonal and local/regional

ingredients, always with a vegetarian option. All waste produced at the congress

was separated and sent for recycling. The number of recycling bins were

reinforced for the event.


Valuing the

organic waste

Flower arrangement

Mobility

Leave your

suggestions

During the congress, a lot of potential residues were produced. As Nature and its

ecological processes, we see it as an abundance of resources and a great

opportunity to close the congress organic cycle. We selectively collected the

organic leftovers and use it to feed our red worms and black soldiers flies (BSF)

in the vermicomposting station of Faculty of Sciences. At the end, we expected

to have a high-quality compost to enrich out campus soils and BSF larvae to feed

our chickens as protein supplement. “So, choose wise where to put your

residues if you want to help to improve our soils, take care our chickens and

help to grow organic food!”.

The organization embellished the congress rooms with life, thanks to “Horta

FCUL”, a project created and managed by people from the Faculty of Sciences of

the University of Lisbon that aims to raise awareness and spread the practice

of permaculture as a solution to many of the ecological, social and economic

problems facing the world. We used mainly plants (the full organism, not just

the flower), mainly perennials, produced in a healthy soil enriched with compost

from the campus. After the event they will be planted at the Faculty of Sciences’

campus as a legacy of the congress. The pots that held the arrangements were

created with non-consumable products by reusing urban residues in a creative

and sustainable way.

The event venue and the catering, the recommended hotels, the welcome

reception and the congress dinner were all located relatively close and in central

areas of Lisbon. Most distances were walk distance, others easily accessed by

public transport or shared bicycles.

There was a book of the congress where the participants could write

compliments, suggestions or complaints about the whole organization.


Outputsand impact

The opening ceremony ended with launch of the official postcard of the

congress, possible through a partnership with CTT - Correios de Portugal. All the

members present in the panel stamped their own personal postcard: Maria

Amélia Martins-Loução (SPECO), Cristina Máguas (EEF), Pedro Almeida (Faculty

of Sciences of the University of Lisbon), Luís Ferreira (University of Lisbon),

José Sá Fernandes (Lisbon Municipality), João Loureiro (Portuguese Institute for

Nature Conservation and Forests), Humberto Rosa (European Commission) and

David Nabarro (4SD). Each participant ha received their own postcard.

The Portuguese Ecological Restoration Network was officialised during

EEFLisbon2019. The congress was the chosen moment to sign a protocol

between the Society for Ecological Restoration of Europe and SPECO. The

signing of the protocol was marked by the speeches of the researchers currently

coordinating the Network, Alice Nunes and Patricia Rodríguez González, as well

as Melinda Halassy, representative of the SERE. The initiative came in a moment

when the United Nations has designated the next ten years as the decade for

ecological restoration. The Network is focused of 5 major aims:

1. Gather and share information on ecological restoration in Portugal; create a

database of ecological restoration projects in Portugal with their locations;

create a sharing platform;

2. Facilitate communication within the network and stimulate initiatives with

other organizations and societies: organization of a national congress;

prepare joint publications; foster collaboration with public and private

entities; disclose applicable legislation and funding opportunities;

3. Training: organise courses, workshops, technical seminars;

4. Promote dissemination and awareness actions for society, private

companies and public administration;

5. Knowledge transfer to policy makers: setting up a scientific advisory

committee; produce joint technical reports; to stimulate and elaborate a

strategy of valorisation of the ecological restoration in Portugal.

After the first debate of the congress, our partners at IMVF (Instituto Marquês de

Valle Flor) elaborated a report on the main conclusions presented by the panel.

Written in Portuguese, the report, while maintaining its scientific coherence,

was directed to a non-scientific audience. The report is available at https://www.imvf.org/en/2019/08/02/lisbon-talk-the-geopolitics-of-global-change-2/.

The second debate “How is Ecology contributing to the accomplishment of the

Sustainable Development Goals” resulted in a document entitled “The

Responsibility of Ecologists”. It aims to became a fundamental deontological

document to guide the professional activity of ecologists and their relationship

with society. SPECO and EEF opened the debate, hoping to improve the text

through the feedback of the scientific community. The document is available at http://www.speco.pt/pt/iniciativas/265-the-responsability-of-ecologists-en.

EEFLisbon2019

postcard

Launch of the

Portuguese Ecological

Restoration Network

The geopolitics of

global change

The responsibility

of Ecologists


https://www.imvf.org/en/2019/08/02/lisbon-talk-the-geopolitics-of-global-change-2/

http://www.speco.pt/pt/iniciativas/265-the-responsability-of-ecologists-en

The congress has caught a lot of media interest, unusual for professional events

like EEFLisbon2019, and it was reflected in a significant number of news

published both online and on printed newspapers. Público, our media partner

was truly vital for this outreach and to take our message beyond the scientific

community, to society as a whole. By the Friday afternoon (August 2nd), we have

summed 12 newspaper articles, 3 interviews for national television, 2 radio

interviews and 2 podcast recordings. Público has kindly shared the information

regarding the outreach of 3 main articles: (1) the interview to Bénédict Leonard,

focused on air pollution effects on people, had 534 visits, 1231 page viewsand an average visiting time of 2,12 minutes on Público website, and reached

15000 people on the day it was published at Público’s Facebook page; (2) the

interview to Wolfgang Cramer, regarding the emission of greenhouse gases by

aviation, had 5808 visits, 9923 page views and an average visiting time of 2,54

minutes on Público website, and it reached over 97000 people on Facebook; (3)

finally, the article by Maria Amélia Martins-Loução on the role of Ecology and

ecologists, had 2121 visits, 3178 page views and average visiting time of 2,54

minutes. This data excluded the outreach via SPECO’s website and what was

published after the congress.

Clipping (in portuguese):

• https://www.publico.pt/2019/07/29/ciencia/opiniao/ecologia-ecologos-1881292

• https://www.dn.pt/opiniao/opiniao-dn/convidados/a-ecologia-e-os-objectivos-do-desenvolvimento-sustentavel-11180388.html

• https://www.publico.pt/2019/07/30/ciencia/noticia/arjen-wals-urgencia-medidas-ambientais-levar-regimes-ecototalitarios-1881718

• https://lifestyle.sapo.pt/familia/noticias-familia/artigos/escolas-como-laboratorios-ambientais-sao-o-caminho-evitar-o-eco-totalitarismo

• https://www.publico.pt/2019/08/01/ciencia/entrevista/quantidade-emissoes-gases-estufa-permitimos-aviacao-absurda-1881906

• https://www.publico.pt/2019/07/29/ciencia/entrevista/cidade-carros-parecera-utopica-solucao-poluicao-ar-1881382

• https://www.noticiasdecoimbra.pt/helena-freitas-afirma-que-sociedade-mais-sustentavel-exige-novas-politicas-publicas/

Media outreach


https://www.publico.pt/2019/07/29/ciencia/opiniao/ecologia-ecologos-1881292

https://www.dn.pt/opiniao/opiniao-dn/convidados/a-ecologia-e-os-objectivos-do-desenvolvimento-sustentavel-11180388.html

https://www.publico.pt/2019/07/30/ciencia/noticia/arjen-wals-urgencia-medidas-ambientais-levar-regimes-ecototalitarios-1881718

https://lifestyle.sapo.pt/familia/noticias-familia/artigos/escolas-como-laboratorios-ambientais-sao-o-caminho-evitar-o-eco-totalitarismo

https://www.publico.pt/2019/08/01/ciencia/entrevista/quantidade-emissoes-gases-estufa-permitimos-aviacao-absurda-1881906

https://www.publico.pt/2019/07/29/ciencia/entrevista/cidade-carros-parecera-utopica-solucao-poluicao-ar-1881382

https://www.noticiasdecoimbra.pt/helena-freitas-afirma-que-sociedade-mais-sustentavel-exige-novas-politicas-publicas/

• https://tvi24.iol.pt/tecnologia/ambiente/metade-do-planeta-deve-ser-conservado-como-natureza-pura?fbclid=IwAR1UEaJJdfqZv9UiJSyjDxtXi_-Lm3PCvJRv2gjeUj1jbYqedvehYWxXhqI

• https://24.sapo.pt/atualidade/artigos/biogeografo-defende-que-metade-do-planeta-devia-ser-natureza-pura?fbclid=IwAR0-gjTlPGWzfoYJlcnZHBZDPxy2F_lxY9PMAmGcT3DgxK6kf6s2Rg3GsgI

• https://www.ambientemagazine.com/biogeografo-defende-que-metade-do-planeta-devia-ser-natureza-pura/?fbclid=IwAR3yeogx3CzLSYLA4JG954WKm2dqS1hduv8Q_75q8IZFemd6ukkJErBE3vo

• https://www.radiocampanario.com/ultimas/regional/miguel-bastos-araujo-premio-pessoa-vence-tambem-o-prestigiado-premio-ernst-haeckel?fbclid=IwAR3arqcDbvEYeFG1lTSlh6LBxvqDuH4mjfuL5aft6FKTsIXsDeuYywv7fI0

Podcasts (in english):

• https://www.publico.pt/2019/08/01/ciencia/noticia/p24-1-agosto-1881390

• https://anchor.fm/scicommjc/episodes/Ep--8-Our-House-Is-Burning---A-case-for-increase-of-media-coverage-of-biodiversity-loss--guest-Ruben-Oliveira--Portuguese-Ecological-Society-e3l62r/a-aco8ug

During the congress, all efforts of live dissemination were concentrated on

Twitter (through the official account and #EEFLisbon2019) and Youtube. Between

Monday to Friday, the hashtag was used over 1800 times, reaching an average

of 9400 impressions per day, and over 62300 impressions during the whole

congress. We generated a word cloud (see below) with the most frequent words

used in the tweets, and their frequency: bigger words have a higher frequency,

while the opposite is also true. The YouTube live streaming of the debates,

plenary and keynote talks, reached a total of 1267 visualizations. Impressions

and visualizations after the congress were not included. Videos available athttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0pLEPu0vYfI0jdOaqhoiRQ/vídeos.

Social networks


https://tvi24.iol.pt/tecnologia/ambiente/metade-do-planeta-deve-ser-conservado-como-natureza-pura?fbclid=IwAR1UEaJJdfqZv9UiJSyjDxtXi_-Lm3PCvJRv2gjeUj1jbYqedvehYWxXhqI

https://24.sapo.pt/atualidade/artigos/biogeografo-defende-que-metade-do-planeta-devia-ser-natureza-pura?fbclid=IwAR0-gjTlPGWzfoYJlcnZHBZDPxy2F_lxY9PMAmGcT3DgxK6kf6s2Rg3GsgI

https://www.ambientemagazine.com/biogeografo-defende-que-metade-do-planeta-devia-ser-natureza-pura/?fbclid=IwAR3yeogx3CzLSYLA4JG954WKm2dqS1hduv8Q_75q8IZFemd6ukkJErBE3vo

https://www.radiocampanario.com/ultimas/regional/miguel-bastos-araujo-premio-pessoa-vence-tambem-o-prestigiado-premio-ernst-haeckel?fbclid=IwAR3arqcDbvEYeFG1lTSlh6LBxvqDuH4mjfuL5aft6FKTsIXsDeuYywv7fI0

https://www.publico.pt/2019/08/01/ciencia/noticia/p24-1-agosto-1881390

https://anchor.fm/scicommjc/episodes/Ep--8-Our-House-Is-Burning---A-case-for-increase-of-media-coverage-of-biodiversity-loss--guest-Ruben-Oliveira--Portuguese-Ecological-Society-e3l62r/a-aco8ug

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0pLEPu0vYfI0jdOaqhoiRQ/videos

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