Swedish Biodiversity Symposium,

The Swedish Biodiversity Symposium, 21–23 October 2025 in Gothenburg, is a science-policy interface orientated forum for communication, dissemination, and discussion of science-based knowledge on biodiversity. The theme of this first symposium is: ”Transformative change – from knowledge to action”. The Swedish Biodiversity Symposium is a new initiative aiming to develop into a biennial transdisciplinary biodiversity platform, to showcase the outstanding expertise of Swedish biodiversity knowledge, research, and implementations. The symposium welcomes national and international participants that work with biodiversity in any professional capacity, including those active in academia, research institutions, government agencies, business and NGOs with research, policymaking, nature management, education, outreach and more. Call for sessions is now open, please send in your proposal no later than 22 January. Read more about the call for sessions here: Call for sessions - deadline 22 January. A session should be organised under a unified theme that addresses transformative change in relation to biodiversity research, implementation and related issues. Sessions are intended to allow organisations, projects, or any other group of people to create a setting that highlights and problematises an issue from different perspectives. The broad overall conference theme allows for deeper discussion from many perspectives; conservation, governance, changes in biodiversity over time and space, ecosystem services/nature’s contribution to people, nature-based solutions, restoration measures, communication, spatial planning, psychology, climate, land-use, health, economic incentives, food security, pollution and more. This conference is co-organized by the strategic research area BECC (Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate) at Lund and Gothenburg Universities, GGBC (Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre), Bolin Centre for Climate Research (BCCR), SLU Swedish Biodiversity Centre (CBM) and the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA). Several additional organisations are partner organisations, including Centre for Sea and Society, the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation, World Wildlife Fund, Swedish Oikos Society, SLU - Swedish Species Information Centre, Gothenburg Botanical Garden, Region Västa Götaland, with financial contribution from the Hasselblad Foundation. Read more: https://swedishbiodiversitysymposium.se/