3rd LIFE ELCN Workshop “Cooperation for Private Land Conservation” Sighișoara, 3 - 7 June 2019 Monday, 3 June 2019 15:00 arrival & check in at Dracula Danes Guesthouse (www.dracul.ro) (20 minutes from Sighișoara) 20:30 Informal welcome Dinner at Dracula Danes Guesthouse Tuesday, 4 June 2019 – “Partnerships” 09:00 Welcome by the hosts 09:15 Cooperation for private land conservation – the EU policy perspective Dr. Frank Vassen – DG ENV, Nature Unit (tbd) 09:45 Landcare Associations – cooperative nature conservation Marie Kaerlein – DVL 10:30 Coffee break 11:00 Food culture and land conservation Dessilava Dimitrova – Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity 11:45 Public-private partnerships for sustainable land management Peter Stein – Lyme Timber Company 12:30 Landowners and farmers as partners for conservation – LIFE Land is Forever Anne-Sophie Mulier – ELO 13:00 Lunch 14:00 In-situ conservation of genetic plant diversity – Farmer’s Pride Kristijan Civic – Eurosite 14:30 Cooperating with volunteers for land conservation Jóni Vieira – Montis 15:00 Coffee break 15:30 Protecting nature on private land in Denmark Lars Malmborg – Aage V. Jensen Nature Fund 16:00 Creating regional value chains through cooperation Nat Page/Cristi Gherghiceanu – ADEPT Foundation 17:00 End of workshop day 1 19:00 Sighisoara guided tour 20:30 Dinner at Alte Post Sighisoara (http://www.gasthaus-altepost.ro) Wednesday, 5 June 2019 – Excursion day 08:30 Transfer to ADEPT Saschiz office 09:15 Introduction to ADEPT vision and activities related to cooperation and marketing 09:30 Visit of ADEPT projects: SES Fruleco, Food Processing Unit, Tourist Information Centre, Pottery Workshop… 12:30 Lunch in Viscri 14:00 Sheepfold visit 15:30 Viscri association, milk collection point, cheese plant 18:00 Visit of Medieval fortified church in Viscri 19:00 Dinner in Viscri no. 125 guesthouse (http://www.viscri125.ro), traditional music and dances Thursday, 6 June 2019 – “Networks” 09:00 Networks for private land conservation Jennifer Gooden – University of Oxford 09:30 The emergence of an Italian Network for Privately Protected Areas Stefano Picchi – WWF Oasi consultant 10:00 Coffee Break 10:30 Networking for a wilder Europe Wouter Helmer – Rewilding Europe 11:00 A new Network for Nature Conservation in Catalonia Miquel Rafa – Fundació Catalunya la Pedrera 11:30 A Network for High-nature-value farming in the EU – HNV Link Ionel Mugurel Jitea – Cluj Agricultural University 12:00 Lunch 13:00 AccessToLand – the EU network helping organic farming get a foot on the ground Alice Martin-Prével, A2L 13:30 Global networking for private land conservation Laura Johnson – International Land Conservation Network 14:00 Concluding remarks 14:30 End of workshop .