The objectives of this conference are to inform participants about current developments in and around IPBES, to strengthen the capacities for IPBES stakeholder engagement across the ECA region, and to deliver comments on the first order draft of the IPBES Regional Assessment for Europe and Central Asia to IPBES.

Among the presenters are: Laurence Perianin, IPBES Programme Officer at the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN); Anna Varga, Centre for Ecological Research Vácrátót; Cosmas Kombat, IPBES Young Fellow, University of Bayreuth; Felice van der Plaat, Programme Management Officer, IPBES Secretariat; Hilde Eggermont, IPBES National Focal Point of Belgium, Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences.

For more details, please visit the conference website at: http://www.biodiversity.de/index.php/ipbes/nefo-aktivitaeten-zu-ipbes/workshops/pesc-3.

PESC-3 is organized by the German Network and Forum for Biodiversity Research (NeFo) in cooperation with the Fondation pour la Recherche sur la Biodiversité (FRB), the Belgium Biodiversity Platform, the Swiss Biodiversity Forum and the Portuguese IPBES Platform. The conference is sponsered by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).