Meetings, Seminars & Workshops

100 biology students from all over Europe, from bachelors to PhD candidates, and all fields of life sciences will attend the symposium to network and present their research. The topic of this edition will be “Beyond frontiers”.

The Plant Biology 2020 Worldwide Summit will take place from July 27 to July 31. The schedule will provide the full suite of Plant Biology experiences — just online — where we will create an educational, collaborative, and participatory experience for attendees.

The Spanish National Bioinformatics Institute (INB/ELIXIR-ES) and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) welcome you to the 19th European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB2020) under the motto Planetary Health and Biodiversity.

The main mission of the "World Multidisciplinary Earth Sciences Symposium - WMESS" is to lead to contribute in multidisciplinary studies related with atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere and pedosphere of the Earth and interaction of the human with them.

The United Nations have declared 2020 as the International Year of Plant Health (IYPH), a once in a lifetime opportunity to raise global awareness on how protecting plant health can help end hunger, reduce poverty, protect the environment, and boost economic development. To promote a global conversation about plant health and the future of sustainable agriculture as part of IYPH, CABI, Koppert Biological Systems and Wageningen University are organising a conference entitled Plant Health, Agriculture & Bioscience (PHAB 2020).

The 26th European Meeting of PhD Students in Evolutionary Biology (EMPSEB) will be held from September 27th to October 2nd 2020 in Killarney, Ireland. This conference is organized by and dedicated to PhD students in all disciplines linked to evolutionary biology.

The International Biogeography Society will be holding a special Early Career Conference in Amsterdam from 2 - 4 October 2020.

Are you a talented early-career researcher who has produced excellent supervised work, are you ready to work independently and think you have the potential to be a research leader? Then the ERC Starting Grant could be for you! On October 6th 2020 Yellow Research will give an ERC starting grant and consolidator course.

DIGICROP 2020 is a scientific event addressing an international and interdisciplinary audience working at the intersection of engineering, robotics, computer science, crop sciences, agricultural sciences, phenotyping, and economics. The conference aims to stimulate scientific discussions among the participants and disseminate results across disciplinary boundaries.

TEKNOWLOGY is the Dutch festival where technology, science, innovation and valorisation meet. In the week of 16 November, NWO puts technical innovations for the future on display and shows how Dutch science is preparing for it. NWO invites scientists to submit out-of-the-box research ideas that contribute to sustainable solutions for global societal challenges and win EUR.50.000.

Everywhere we go, people are talking about sustainability. But as the use of this term spreads its meaning has become increasingly misused. True sustainability is achieved when the exploitation of resources, the direction of investments, the orientation of technological development and institutional change are all in harmony and guarantee a development which can support itself and meet future needs indefinitely. Environment, economy and society are the three main pillars of sustainability but unfortunately societal and economical welfare are often prioritized over the environment. During the PE&RC Day 2019, we aim to put the environment in the spotlight and discuss its pivotal role in supporting societal and economic demands.

The Fresh Blood for FreshWater is a conference organized by early-career freshwater scientists, representing not just new incomers to the field, but also those who still (or forever) feel themselves ‘fresh blood’. In this regard, the conference aims to provide a friendly atmosphere to present our work and to break boundaries exchanging ideas with other young researchers.

The 4th International Conference on Global Food Security addresses the topic of food security at all spatial levels from local to global, and from an interdisciplinary and systemic food systems perspective. It aims to better understand environmental, nutritional, agricultural, demographic, socio-economic, political, technological and institutional drivers, costs and outcomes of current and future food security. Interactions with contextual factors including climate change, urbanisation, greening the economy and data-driven technologies will be central.

Join ecologists from around the world from 14 – 17 December 2020, at the International Conference Centre of Edinburgh, Scotland. Over the last 40 years the BES Annual Meeting has grown into Europe’s largest and most influential conference dedicated to ecology. This is a great opportunity to share your science, and find the latest ideas and the topics that matter in a changing world, with leading science being presented across all of ecology.

The National Open Science Festival provides researchers the opportunity to learn about the benefits of different Open Science practices. It is a place to meet peers that are already working openly or that are interested to start doing so. Key to this day is sharing knowledge and best practices.

Life is a unique, inspiring, annual national congress covering all disciplines and scales in the Dutch Life Sciences, from femtometer to kilometer, from cell to planet. Life2020 will be the second edition.

The aim of this meeting is to bring together the scientific community working with plants on subjects around genome stability and modification: DNA recombination and repair, chromosome stability, meiosis, replication, epigenetics and applications in plant breeding and genome engineering.

Plant Biology Europe 2021 focuses on delivering the latest scientific developments in plant biology, following an inclusive approach where long-standing research sectors and novel breakthrough topics are showcased, including aspects of science policy and ethics, and fostering participation of young scientists

Our world is changing rapidly. We humans are changing. Urbanization, overfishing and animal welfare are tough and well known issues. The sport fishing sector will have to deal with these challenges. During this conference science and knowledge on these subjects will be presented and discussed.

The 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC) will be held in Cartagena, Colombia. The theme is “Conserving Tropical Biodiversity and Achieving Socio-ecological Resilience in the Anthropocene: Opportunities and Challenges”.

SIP welcomes you warmly to the 17th Symposium on Insect-Plant relationships in Leiden. The latest developments in research on the relationships between plants, insects and associated microorganisms, from physiological mechanisms to ecological and evolutionary processes will be addressed.

The SIL Congress promotes open discussions on new scholarly findings and pioneer research in the field of limnology to foster knowledge transfer to scientists and researchers worldwide.

Experts and researchers from all over the world will present and discuss their findings and visions for meeting the great challenges that plant breeding will face in the next decades to integrate the many new technologies, skills and human experience into coherent breeding strategies under the theme:

We are pleased to announce the 50th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland, which will be held Monday 30 August to Friday 3 September 2021 at the Technische Universität Braunschweig and the Thünen-Institut of Biodiversity, Braunschweig in Germany.