XXVI UEF Governing Council Meeting, Luxembourg

19 - 22 September 2024

Announcement | Time Schedule | Agenda | Participants | Documents | Photos

Programme

Thursday, 19th of September 2024

• Arrival of the Presidency members & Delegations in Luxembourg (afternoon)
• Transportation to Hotel Novotel Suites Luxembourg: Quartier Europeen, 13 Av. John F. Kennedy, 1855 Luxembourg, by public transportation (free of charge) à further details after registration
• 18:00 - Ice Breaking + guided tour – City of Luxembourg

Friday, 20th of September 2024

• 8:30 – 9:00 Registration at Centre Cercle Cité https://cerclecite.lu/en
• 9:00 - 12:30 International Seminar - TOPIC: Biodiversity conservation and forest management in the context of the global climate change – a look at Luxembourg
  1. Serge WILMES, Minister of Environment, Climate and Biodiversity – welcome speech
  2. Tomasz MARKIEWICZ, President of UEF – welcome speech
  3. Michel LEYTEM, Director - The Nature & Forest Agency
  4. Prof. Dr. Alexander KNOHL, University of Göttingen - Forests in climate change – a dialog under stress
  5. François IFFLY, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology - Impact on tree species on water resource and feedback by Jean
  6. Martin LEVIN, former director of the municipal forest of Göttingen - The untamed forest
  7. Thierry KOZLIK - Urban forestry of the city of Luxembourg

• Lunch
• 14:00 – Field trip - Urban forestry at the city of Luxembourg https://www.vdl.lu/en/visiting/leisure-and-nature-activities/forests
• 17:00-19:00 - Statutory Governing Council Meeting
• 20:00 – Dinner

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Saturday, 21th of September 2024:

• 08:30 Field trip – Luxembourg’s little Switzerland-UNESCO “Natur- & Geopark Mëllerdall” https://www.naturpark-mellerdall.lu/en/
  • Remote sensing-based inventories by Luxsense geodata s.à r.l.
  • Integrated forest management - Synergies and trade-offs between forestry and nature conservation
• Lunch
• 15:00 Field trip – Ecological redevelopment of the Pétrusse Valley
• 16:30 End of the official Program
• 20:00 Foresters‘ party to celebrate the 50^th  anniversary of the Luxembourg Forester Association (AFL)

Sunday, 22th of September 2024:

• Individual departure of the participants

• XXV UEF Governing Council Meeting, Färna, Sweden
• XXIV UEF Governing Council Meeting 2022 Finland
• XXIII UEF Governing Council Meeting 2020 Puszczykowo, Poland
• XXII UEF Governing Council Meeting 2019 Maienfeld, Switzerland
• XXI UEF Governing Council Meeting 2018 Cosenza, Italy
• XX UEF Governing Council Meeting 2016, Nødebo, Denmark
• XIX Governing Council Meeting 2015 Ustroń-Jaszowiec, Poland
• XVIII Governing Council Meeting 2014 Nessebar, Bulgaria
• XVII Governing Council Meeting 2012 Halmstad, Sweden
• XVI Governing Council Meeting 2011 Lemesos, Cyprus
• XV Governing Council Meeting 2010 Annecy, France
• XIV Governing Council Meeting 2008 Gmunden, Austria
• XIII Governing Council Meeting 2007 Herning Denmark
• XII Governing Council Meeting 2006 Sofia, Bulgaria
• XI Governing Council Meeting 2004 Hyvinkää, Finland
• X Governing Council Meeting 2003 Larnaka, Cyprus
• IX Governing Council Meeting 2002 Poznan, Poland
• VIII Governing Council Meeting 2000 Barcelona, Spain
• VII Governing Council Meeting 1999 Nûrnberg, Germany
• VI Governing Council Meeting 1997 Poiana Brasov, Romania
• V Governing Council Meeting 1996 Shrewsbury, England UK
• IV Governing Council Meeting 1994 Grenoble, France
• III Governing Council Meeting 1992. Thüringen, Germany
• II Governing Council Meeting 1990 Renesse, Holland and Bruxelles, Belgium
• I Governing Council Meeting 1987 La Converserie, Belgium