Restoring Europe's Threatened Grasslands - navigating opportunities and challenges in a changing EU policy context

This EU-wide 3-day networking event will be hosted by the Herman Ottó Institute Budapest (Coordinator of LIFE IPE Grasslands-HU) in cooperation with the European Commission (DG.ENV) and the Hungarian Ministry of Agriculture.

Its main target audience are representatives of national and regional authorities for nature conservation and agriculture of the EU27 member states, as well as their agencies responsible for managing grassland Natura 2000 sites and developing restoration measures for grasslands in the national restoration plans (NRPs) under the EU Nature Restoration Regulation (NRR). This event will provide a platform for experience and knowledge exchange, on questions such as financing grassland restoration, restoration planning and setting of favourable reference values for grassland habitats, in the face of increasing pressures from land use intensification on one side, and rural abandonment on the other side.