Symposium: Us and Our Habitats

Name: Symposium: Us and Our Habitats
Start: 2026-09-17T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-09-17T21:30:00+02:00
Location: Wissensturm

Thursday 17 September · 09:00Wissensturm · oberoesterreich

What's it about?

How can near-natural habitats in urban and rural areas be preserved and restored? What role do regionally adapted, native plants play in this? This symposium brings together experts, practitioners, and committed individuals to illuminate current challenges and develop concrete solutions. Knowledge, experiences, and perspectives will be shared and further developed together in lectures, workshops, and excursions. The subsequent festival offers space for exchange and encounter. Program Schedule: Thursday, September 17, 2026 from 9:00 AM Arrival, Registration 10:00 AM Welcome and Introduction 10:15 AM Status of Habitat Restoration in Austria > Wolfgang Suske 11:00 AM Distribution Maps of Wild Plants in Austria > Luise Schratt-Ehrendorfer 11:45 AM Can Near-Natural Habitats Be Built? > Birgit Helbig 12:30 PM Lunch Break 2:00 PM Parallel Workshops Habitat Restoration - What Everyone Can Do > Wolfgang Suske Practical Application of Distribution Maps > Luise Schratt-Ehrendorfer Biotope Structures - From Knowledge to Action - Model Building > Birgit Helbig Water as a Habitat > Paula Polak Sustainable Settlement Areas > Hans-Jürgen Baschinger Invasive Neophytes and Their Management > Julia Kropfberger Reports from the Workshops (4:30 PM - 5:00 PM) Break, Check into Accommodations 7:00 PM FESTIVAL "20 Years Active for Near-Natural Habitats" from 9:30 PM Wind-down at Andres Bar Friday, September 18, 2026 9:00 AM Improvement and Restoration of Habitats Using Linz as an Example > Gudrun Fuß 9:45 AM From Mountain Spruce Forest to Urban Nature - Examples from Switzerland > Peter Steiger 10:30 AM Legal Anchoring of Wild Plant Use - Experiences from South Tyrol > Andreas Kasal 11:30 AM Lunch Break 1:00 PM Parallel Workshops Collecting and Sowing Native Wild Plants > Karin Böhmer The Path to Legal Anchoring of Wild Plant Use > Andreas Kasal & Kurt Kusstatscher Experiences with Wild Plant Sowings and Care on the Danube and March > Barbara Becker Green Roofs and Facades with Native Wild Plants > Markus Kumpfmüller Native Tree Species for Near-Natural Garden and Landscape Design > Peter Steiger Nature in the City - Walk > Gudrun Fuß Reports from the Workshops (3:30 PM - 4:00 PM) 4:00 PM Concluding Round with Surprise Guest 5:00 PM End of Event Registration: www.rewisa-netzwerk.at/fachtagung Speaker: REWISA-Netzwerk