The work and budget plan of the COST Action CONVERGES for the period May 2019 to April 2020 contains 1 training school, 4 meetings, some grants for scientific missions and some conference grants. Please find below a summary of the main scheduled actitivies (and contacts) :
1. Meeting in Belgrade, September 2019.
- Topic “Riparian vegetation restoration measures and genetic conservation”,
- contact : Jelena Milovanović <jmilovanovic@singidunum.ac.rs>, Roland Jansson <roland.jansson@umu.se>
2. Training school in Sofia, October 2019.
- Topic “Phytocoenological databases and numerical methods to analyse riparian vegetation data”,
- contact : Dejan Mandzukovski <d_mandzukovski@yahoo.com>, kiril vasilev <kiril5914@abv.bg> and Marta González de Tanago <marta.gtanago@upm.es>
3. Meeting in Madrid, November 2019.
- Topic “Riparian vegetation responses to global changes (regulation, climate, land uses, invasion)”,
- contact : Marta González de Tanago <marta.gtanago@upm.es>
4. Meeting in Tartu, March 2020.
- Topic “Management, legislation and social awareness of riparian vegetation”,
- contact : Mart Külvik <Mart.Kylvik@emu.ee>, Ragnhildur Sigurdardottir <raga@nett.is>, Roland Jansson <roland.jansson@umu.se>
5. Meeting in Thessaloniki, February 2020.
- “Annual meeting and Management Committee Meeting”,
- contact : Eleni Abraham <eabraham@for.auth.gr>, Simon Dufour <simon.dufour@univ-rennes2.fr>
6. Presentation of the COST Action CONVERGES to ISRS biannual conference in Vienna and EVS meeting in Madrid
7. Scientific missions (STSM) : several calls will be open before summer 2019, contact: Rob Francis <robert.francis@kcl.ac.uk>
8. Conference Grants for Early Carrier Investigators from Inclusiveness Target Countries (oral/poster presentations on the topic of the Action) , contact Daniel Bruno Collados <dbrunocollados@um.es>
