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Programme

Wednesday 23 November 2011

On-site discussion on participatory forest management and ecosystem services in the Bosland Forest, the largest multipurpose forest landscape of Flanders (6000 ha) including free conference dinner.

The excursion is fully booked !!!

9-11 AM

Registration with coffee and tea (Province House Leuven)

11 AM

 Departure to Bosland

12.30 AM

 Lunch

1.15 PM

 Official opening of the conference with a short introduction to Bosland
(Jos Rutten, General Director Flemish Nature and Forest Agency)

1.45- 4 PM

 Field trip with life examples of ecosystem services (supporting, provisioning, regulating and cultural)

4.30 AM

 Coffee Break

5 PM

 Lessons from the field trip:
  • View of a key stakeholder
  • Trade-offs between ecosystem services (Bart Muys, K.U.Leuven)
  • Bosland Master plan process (Dries Gorissen, ANB)
  • Questions & Answers

6 PM

 Social evening with local specialities

8.30 PM

Return to Leuven and Brussels

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Thursday 24 November 2011

Keynote lectures

Poster session with best poster award

Formal declaration of the Forests2011 Position Paper by the Metaforum Leuven on Forests

8-9 AM

Registration

9 AM

 Introductory session
Welcome by Lodewijk De Witte, Governor of the Province of Vlaams Brabant
Welcome by Jos Vanderleyden, Dean of the Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

9.30 AM

 Invited lecture: John King (North Carolina State University)
Understanding the role of forests in a changing world

9.50 AM

 Invited lecture: Michael Scherer-Lorenzen (University of Freiburg – FP7 FunDivEurope)
The functional role of biodiversity in forests

10.10 AM

 Invited lecture: Marc Hanewinkel (Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research – FP7 Motive)
Adaptive forest management under climate change: strategies on a European level

10.30 AM

 Coffee Break

11 AM

 Invited lecture: Metodi Sotirov (University of Freiburg – FP7 Integral) & Georg Winkel (UC Berkeley)
Looking beyond the trees – European interdisciplinary research on the edge between society and forests

11.30 AM

 Flash Poster Presentations

12 AM

 Keynote lecture: Frances Seymour (CIFOR Director General)
Avoiding deforestation: from global negotiation to local implementation

12.30 AM

 Poster session

1-2 PM

 Lunch

2-4 PM

 Metaforum Leuven Symposium

2 PM

 Margaret Shannon (European Forest Institute)
Seeing people in the trees: sustainable forests are human forests

2.20 PM

 Bart Muys (K.U.Leuven)
Presentation of the Metaforum Leuven position paper “Forests2011”

2.40 PM

Panel discussion with key stakeholders

  • Gert-Jan Nabuurs (EFI, panel chair)
  • Ignazio Martinez (Union of Silviculturalists of Southern Europe)
  • Geert Lejeune (WWF)
  • Kindeya Gebrehiwot (Mekelle University, Ethiopia)
  • Daniel Bontemps (ENGREF, Nancy)
  • Margaret Shannon (EFI)
  • Eric Tollens (ICRAF)
  • Ana Rocha (European Landowners Organization

4 PM

Coffee break

4.30 PM

 Handing over of the Forests2011 position paper to the EU Commissioner of Agriculture and to the Flemish Minister of
Environment

4.40 PM

 Speech of Flemish Minister of Environment, Joke Schauvliege

4.50 PM

 Speech of the EU Commissioner of Agriculture

5 PM

 Karin Hansen (Forest & Landscape Denmark)
Best Poster Award

5.10 PM

 Bart Muys ( K.U.Leuven)
End notes and closure of the conference