Addressed topics: – social issues regarding use, property, distribution or regulation of water– economic issues regarding water as a driving factor for alpine economies– issues of specific user groups (energy, agriculture, tourism, nature)– all over consequences of water scarcity – needed know-how and data for evidence-based water management – dialogue practice – science – policyThe Forum Alpinum will be jointly organised with the 6th Water Conference of the Platform Water of the Alpine Convention.

Background​ The International Scientific Conference „Forest Science for a Sustainable Forestry and Human Wellbeing in a Changing World” - INCDS „Marin Drăcea” 85 Years of Activity, Centenary of The Great Union in 1918” is an open scientific event dedicated to the anniversary of 85 years of activity in forestry research of the National Institute for Research and Development in Forestry „Marin Drăcea”. In 2018 this great anniversary event coincides with the celebration of 100 years since the Great Union of the…

The 48-hour happening will take place between trees and ruins. It will develop a non-linear narrative on ‘speculative ecology’ – a field trial on an ecology with the active participation of fictional aliens, socio-techno-epistemological aliens, corrupted aliens, political, bureaucratic, endangered aliens. Together with the participation of humans the question is addressed: Is it possible to develop an etho-ecological perspective of a place? More details here: http://artscience.uni-ak.ac.at/activities?projekt_id=1529044608824 RSVP to thelanding@uni-ak.ac.at

The conference is a continuation of the successful series of Forum Carpaticum meetings held every two years: starting with 2010 in Kraków, Poland, then Stará Lesná, Slovakia (2012), Lviv, Ukraine (2014), and 2016 in Bucharest, Romania. The Forum Carpaticum is an open meeting of the Science for the Carpathians (S4C) initiative. The scientific cooperation network S4C was established in 2008. The network connects scientists interested or involved in research on the Carpathian region, helping to define research priorities and enhancing…

The aim of the initiative is to discuss the state-of-the-art and the future perspectives of agrotourism as specific kind of rural tourism characterised by a touristic stay and services on a working-farm and to promote agritourism unambiguously worldwide. The congress will offer the opportunity to get updates, exchange views and experiences and to build a permanent networking platform for researchers, practitioners, policy makers and administrative bodies. For this reason, the sessions will focus on critical and emerging themesstrictly related to the activities in the…