Programme
Day 1 | Wednesday 8 October 2025
09:00 – 09:30 | Arrival and Registration
09:30 – 10:00 | Opening: Institutional welcome (5 mins) – Presentation school programme (10 mins) – Participants introductions, hopes and expectations (15 mins)
10:00 – 10:30 | Introduction to MARBEFES project (concept, objectives, outputs and developments) (15 mins) – Participants’ pre-school self-evaluation questionnaire (15 mins)
10:30 – 11:00 | Case Studies presentation and explanation of practical activities
11:00 – 11:30 | Coffee Break
11:30 – 13:00 | ARIES Tool
13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch Break
14:00 – 15:30 | Biodiversity and climate change
15:30 – 16:00 | Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:30 | Assessing ecological structure and functioning
Day 2 | Thursday 9 October 2025
09:00 – 10:30 | Assessing risks and hazards to marine biodiversity
10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30 | Using biodiversity to assess the ecological value of an ecosystem
12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch Break
13:30 – 15:00 | Taxonomic Distinctness Indices and their Application to Metabarcoding Data
15:00 – 15:30 | Coffee Break
15:30 – 17:00 | Socio-cultural valuation and biodiversity
17:00 – 18:30 | Economic Valuation of Marine Biodiversity
Day 3 | Friday 10 October 2025
09:00 – 10:30 | Social-ecological systems analysis in marine management
10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30 | Biodiversity management and the role of DSS
12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch Break
13:30 – 15:00 | Participants’ (in groups) practical activities presentations (Elevator Pitch-style)
15:00 – 15:30 | Closing (Participants’ post-school self-evaluation questionnaire; school programme evaluation; certificates)