Final Conference Programme - Day 2
Morning Session
Opening words by the PEER chair >> Pat Nuttall, Director of the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UK)
Opening words by the host >> Roland Schenkel, Director General of the Joint Research Centre (European Commission)
Presentation of METIER by the Coordinator >> Karin Frank, UFZ – Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (Germany)

Keynote speaker Prof. Patrick Cunningham
Invited Master Lecture I: "Four Challenges or one? Population, Food, Energy, Climate" >> Patrick Cunningham, Chief Scientific Adviser to the Government of Ireland
The Videostream of the Cunningham Lecture is available >> here.
Tandem Lecture 1: Climate
- Senior Scientist Lecture 1 – Climate>> Manfred Grasserbauer (Former Director of the JRC Institute for Environment and Sustainability, University of Vienna, Austria)
- Young Scientist Lecture 1 – Climate >> Alessandro Dosio (JRC Institute for Environment and Sustainability, European Commission)
Watch the Tandem Lecture 'Climate' on Video >> here.
Afternoon Session
Tandem Lecture 2: Water
- Senior Scientist Lecture 2 – Water >> Juha Kämäri (Research Director, SYKE – Finnish Environment Institute, Finland)
- Young Scientist Lecture 2 – Water >> Vera Thiemig (JRC Institute for Environment and Sustainability, European Commission)
Tandem Lecture 3: Biodiversity
- Senior Scientist Lecture 3 – Biodiversity >> Josef Settele (Coordinator of the Integrated Project ALARM, UFZ – Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Germany)
- Young Scientist Lecture 3 – Biodiversity >> Veronique Vos (Wageningen University and Research Centre, The Netherlands)
Watch the Tandem Lectures 'Water' and 'Biodiversity' on Video >> here.
Poster Session 1
Tandem Lecture 4: Land Use
- Senior Scientist Lecture 4 – Land Use >> Dirk Wascher (Alterra / Wageningen University and Research Centre, The Netherlands)
- Young Scientist Lecture 4 – Land Use >> Florian Hartig (UFZ – Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Germany)
Watch the Tandem Lecture 'Land Use' on Video >> here.
Working Groups I
Climate & Water
- Chair: Ron van Lammeren (Alterra/Wageningen University and Research Centre, The Netherlands)
- Rapporteur: Frank Dentener (JRC-IES, European Commission)
- Guest Speaker: Bas Eickhout, Member of the Committee for Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, European Parliament
Watch the Video of this Working Group >> here.
Biodiversity & Land Use
- Chair: Karin Frank (UFZ – Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (Germany)
- Rapporteur: Pierre Bazile (Cemagref/Agroparistech, France)
- Guest Speaker: Martin Scheele, Head of Unit "Environment, GMO and Genetic Resources", DG Agriculture and Rural Development, European Commission




