Laufen 2022

30 November – 2 December 2022 ANL Conference Centre, Laufen (Germany)

The BC Europe Partners Meeting of 2022 was held the last week of November 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. 

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: 

• Thursday 1st of December online session: https://youtu.be/ej7kR--lkt4
• Friday 2nd of December online session: https://youtu.be/3tFKtnNEUuQ

Download the pdf of the Laufen Programme here. The following links are to pdfs of presentations by the speakers in the programme:

Wednesday 30^th November

Delegates arrive 
Welcome by Sam Ellis, Chair BC Europe and Outline of meeting – Martin Warren, BC Europe

Thursday 1st December

Session 1: eBMS update 

• 1.1 eBMS update – David Roy, UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (UKCEH)
• 1.2 eBMS database overview – Reto Schmucki, UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (UKCEH)
• 1.3 Growing the eBMS – Cristina Sevilleja, Dutch BC
• 1.4 Short talks by BMS coordinators - status of several schemes: Austria BMS-Daniela Lehner; Turkey BMS-Evrim Karacetin; Spain BMS-Miguel Munguira; Portugal BMS-Eva Monteiro and Bulgaria BMS-Zdravko Kolev.

Welcoming speech – Dr. Christian Barth (Executive Chief of the Bavarian Ministry for
environmental affairs, Munich) & Dieter Pasch (Director of ANL, Laufen)

Session 2: SPRING project update

• 2.1 Update on SPRING – Josef Settele, UFZ, Germany
• 2.2 The European Pollinator Academy: Developing an online hub for taxonomic capacity building – Mark van Nieuwstadt, SPRING co-ordinator Task 2, Naturalis, The Netherlands
• 2.3 EU PoMS, monitoring other pollinators, pollinator indicator – Simon Potts, University of Reading (online presentation)
• 2.4 Towards a European Moth Monitoring Scheme – Chris van Swaay, Dutch BC

Session 3: Focusing on solutions (interactive session)

• 3.3 Break-out groups following the 2021 coordinator meeting: Focusing on solutions
• 3.2 Feedback from groups

Session 4: Analysing eBMS Data 

• 4.1 How to produce national indicators from BMS – Reto Schmucki and David Roy, UKCEH
• 4.2 Visualising the scheme results – Reto Schmucki and David Roy, UKCEH

Friday 2nd December

Session 5: Red List and Indicators

• 5.1 The new European Butterfly Red List – Chris van Swaay, Dutch BC
• 5.2 Towards a first Red List of European Moths – Sam Ellis, Chair BC Europe
• 5.3 Global Butterfly Indicator – Holly Mynott, BC UK
• 5.4 Talk by the host: Phengaris talk – Christian Stettmer, ANL, Germany

Session 6: Policy 

• 6.1 Message from Martin Hosjek, MEP Czech Republic (recorded presentation)
• 6.2 EU Policy context (EU Biodiversity Strategy 2020, Pollinator Recovery Target and planned EU Nature Restoration Law)– Sue Collins, Policy Advisor, BC Europe
• 6.3 EU Forest Strategy 2030 – Aidan Whitfield, Policy Advisor, BC Europe
• 6.4 Butterfly Indicators for policy evaluation and use of data to improve conservation effectiveness. Sue Collins, Policy Advisor, BC Europe
• 6.5 Member State Pledges: Habitat Directive Article 17 reports – Holly Mynott, BC UK
• 6.6 Discussion: Talking with Member States, to encourage support for eBMS and for more conservation for Lepidoptera: Xavier Mestdagh-Luxemburg & Simona Bonelli-Italy 

Session 7: EBMS tools 

• 7.1 ButterflyCount app: all its possibilities – David Roy, UKCEH
• 7.2 Using 15-min Counts in Hungary – András Szabadfalvi, Hungary BMS
• 7.3 15-min Count applied to rare species Spain– Miguel L. Munguira, Spain BMS
• 7.4 Training on Butterfly Count app – Cristina Sevilleja (interactive)

Session 8: Volunteers

• 8.1 Monitoring urban butterflies in Spain – Yolanda Melero, CREAF, Spain
• 8.2 Feedback to volunteers: 1st Italian BMS Report – Simona Bonelli, Italy BMS
• 8.3 Outreach to public: Communication to volunteers – Eglė Vičiuvienė, Lithuania BMS
• 8.4 Reports to volunteers: Constanti Stefanescu-Catalan BMS; Mikko Kuussaari-Finnish BMS; Elisabeth Kühn-German BMS & Lars Pettersson-Swedish BMS
• 8.5 Discussion on volunteers

General Discussion & Conclusion and Way ahead - Sue & Martin

Evaluation of Laufen meeting

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