Agropolis Scientific Days, Montpellier – Call for papers

From November 28, 2022, at 9:00 a.m. to November 29, 2022, at 6:00 p.m.

LabEx CEMEB is organizing two scientific days on November 28 and 29, 2022, on Ecosystem Services / Nature's Contribution to Humans (session 1 – November 28) and Nature-Based Solutions (session 2 – November 29), at Agropolis, Montpellier.

Session 2 – Nature-based solutions – November 29, 2022

The organizing committee invites you to submit project presentations (research work or achievements) that correspond to the concept of Nature-Based Solutions and can be carried out by research laboratories, companies, local authorities, institutions, or natural area managers in the Occitanie region.

Nature-based solutions (NBS) are defined by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as: "actions that protect, sustainably manage, and restore natural or modified ecosystems to directly address societal challenges effectively and adaptively, while ensuring human well-being and yielding benefits for biodiversity." Projects and initiatives therefore aim to seek a net benefit for biodiversity, while responding to societal challenges identified in the region: climate change mitigation and adaptation, natural risk prevention and reduction, health preservation and improvement, food security (through agroecology, for example), water supply, and/or socio-economic development (through the circular economy, for example)..

As the approach to developing projects on this theme is still emerging, the purpose of this call for papers is to identify projects and achievements in Occitanie that include a work and application component clearly corresponding to the above philosophy, without necessarily meeting all the criteria defined in the IUCN global standard.

The day (program currently being finalized) will feature introductory lectures presenting the concept of SFN (history, definitions, and research challenges, methodological approach to the IUCN global standard), exemplary research projects, emerging research projects, and achievements by stakeholders in Occitanie (local authorities, institutions, businesses, natural area managers).

Organizing committee: Xavier Le Roux, Martine Hossaert, Philippe Jarne, Alan Vergnes, Ophélie Ronce, Sophie Boutin, Gaëlle Mathieu-Hernande.

Presentation of your project

The call for poster presentations is now open, and the selection process will take place as follows:

1. Send us your proposals in the formof a one-page description of your project inWORD format in French by June 8, 2022, at 7 p.m. (see instructions below).
2. After evaluation by the organizing committee, you will be informed (at the end of June 2022) if your project has been selected for:

• amini oral presentation lasting 5-7 minutes during the Poster session(November 29, 2022, afternoon);
• be featured in thebrochure on Nature-Based Solutions actors and projects in Occitanie, which will be published and distributed by the organizers and their partners.

NB: Projects selected for presentation in the poster session will automatically be included in the brochure.

1. Please send us your poster by September 23, 2022, following the presentation instructions that will be sent to you at the end of June.

Instructions for your project description page

Please send a presentation of the project (maximum one page) to thisemail address, including the following information:

• Title (without abbreviations)
• Type of SFN, to be categorized by:
  • Type of application corresponding to societal challenges;
  • Type of environment (coastal/rural/marine/urban, etc.).
• Type of carrier(s):
  • Research project led by a research laboratory/consortium;
  • Project or solution supported/proposed by a company (NB: in the case of companies, they may be national but with a regional presence and offering a regional solution/project);
  • Project led by an institution or local authority.
• Authors and partners:
  • Main sponsor: NAME of organization and NAME of sponsor (contact and presenter);
  • Contact details: phone number / email address / website;
• Funding
• Period (start-end) of completion
• Project description:
  • Issues and challenges;
  • Objectives;
  • Method.

• The Nature-Based Solutions session is organized in partnership withBIODIVOC.
• Contact session 1:Rutger de Wit
• Contact session 2:Sophie Boutin
• Website