Day 1 : Program 12 october 2010 

Plenary session:

- Film

- Welcome by Patrick Moenaert, Mayor of Bruges

- frame of the conference: Jan Verheeke (secretary of EEAC meeting)

- Biodiversity in a changing world (post 2010), a message for the  EU and Nagoya (Japan, COP10): Els Martens (ANB)

- Presentation of various projects and panel conversation

• VALUE: Tom Wild (SYFP)
• FARLAND: Frank van Holst (DLG)
• URBAN HABITATS: Johan Helmer (HHSK)
• SOLABIO: Marian Gerard (province of Limburg)
• MP4: Tom Wild (SYFP)

Choice between 7 excursions:

• The green belt around Bruges: investments in the future value of the city.
• Discover the suburb of green Ghent: from the passive house nature centre through the nature reserve and the landscape park
• Green Investments in peri-urban and industrial Ghent
• Working together with the public towards better biodiversity
• Place-making: green investments in the peri-urban context of bruges: the planning context
• Place-keeping: the old park of Poeke
• Special protection areas in the neighbourhood of expanding cities and harbours: Nature development and compensation