The symposium will benefit from five talks of reputed scientists:
- Dr. Philippe Choler (Laboratoire d’Écologie Alpine, CNRS and University Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France) www
- Keynote: The biogeography of soil diversity: insights from European mountains
- Prof. Karol Marhold (Institute of Botany, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava and Department of Botany, Charles University, Prague, Czechia) www
- Keynote: New advances in the study of the systematics and biogeography of the Carpathian flora
- Prof. Thomas Schmitt (Senckenberg German Entomological Institute, Müncheberg, Germany) www
- Keynote: The zoogeography of the Carpathians and their links to the adjoining high mountain systems
- Dr. Angelica Feurdean (Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and Department of Geology, Faculty of Biology and Geology, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania) www
- Keynote: Past responses of Carpathian vegetation to a warmer world and anthropogenic impacts
- Dr. Elinor Breman (Conservation Partnership Coordinator for Australia, Europe and the Middle East, the Conservation Science Department of the Millenium Seed Bank, Kew Royal Botanical Gardens, Wakehurst, United Kingdom) www
- Keynote: The Millenium Seed Bank and its role of ex situ plant conservation in meeting global challenges on biodiversity conservation: current status and perspectives
