Kick-off Event LIFE Belgium for Biodiversity

The brand new LIFE Belgium for Biodiversity (B4B) project has started and is one of the very first Strategic NAture Projects (SNAP) in the EU. This flagship project will facilitate various processes to halt biodiversity loss and restore vital ecosystems, contribute to the resilience and coherence of the Trans European Nature Network and lowering environmental pressures such as light pollution.  

Over the course of 9 years this ambitious project will also contribute to a transformative change by providing state of the art capacity building and brand the Natura 2000 network, the biggest ecological network in the world. The LIFE Belgium for Biodiversity project will be carried out with 14 partners in the whole Belgian territory, including the Belgian part of the North Sea. 

You want to know more and get in touch with staff that work on the project? Please do register to this free event! 

The program (subject to changes) 

09:00 - 9.45Welcoming and registration
9:45 - 10:00Welcome by the CEO of the Flemish Agency of Nature and Forests: Goedele Van der Spiegel
10.00 - 11.00Presenting the LIFE Belgium for Biodiversity project 
11:00 - 12:30Morning parallel sessions
 Eco and agro tourism in the Natura 2000 network
 Capacity building for N2000 and biodiversity: a mixed story of human and natural capital
 Perspectives on biodiversity and soft systems methodology
 Monitoring and mapping
 Conservation Objectives on Natura 2000 sites
 Old forest mapping in Wallonia
12:30 - 13:30Lunch
13:30 - 15:30Afternoon parallel sessions
 Nature-inclusive agriculture in a Belgian context
 Light pollution
 Species action plans and species protection programmes
 National Parks in Belgium
 Financing biodiversity
15:30 - 15:45Interactive recap of the kick-off
15:45 - 16:00Closing by Cinea (European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency)
16:00 - 17:00Closing drink


All plenary sessions will be held in English. The accompanying presentations will be translated in both French and Dutch. The working language of parallel sesssions depends on the organiser and can be French, Dutch or English. You can always speak in your own language during these sessions.

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start 9:30 h
end 17:30 h
Kick-off
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