European Botanic gardens Consortium held a hybrid meeting

  • Region

    Europe

  • Programme

    European Botanic Gardens Consortium

  • Workstream

    Inspiring and Leading People

  • Type

    News

  • Source

    BGCI

News published 5 May 2025

Representatives from 27 European Botanic Gardens National and European networks came together on a hybrid meeting on the 30 April 2025 to discuss the roles of botanic gardens in Europe. The meeting was held as a hybrid event with participants joining in person from Catania, Sicily.

In this meeting we welcomed new representatives from Albania, North Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia, and a change in representation from Norway.

The discussion involved:

  • Working towards the publication of the Strategy and Conservation Action Plan for European Botanic Gardens.
  • Organisation of the EuroGard10 Conference, taking place in Rome 20205.
  • Draft versions of Terms of Reference and Welcome Pack.
  • Reporting mechanisims for the Action Plan and links to the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC).
  • Demonstration of a new communication facility via PlantSearch to aid material exchange and information exchange between gardens.
  • As well as reports and announcement from representatives.

Next EBGC meeting – in person at EuroGard, Rome at the Botanic Garden Sat 20-21 September.

More information on the EBGC

To identify which gardens in Europe are represented via the EBGC, please go to GardenSearch and filter by networks and continent.