11th IENE meeting in Évora, Portugal 22-25 April 2009

The new IENE organisation was officially reactivated at the IENE general assembly in Portugal, April 2009. A new steering committe was established and the general assembly agreed upon a memorandum of understanding, setting the basis for the re-established IENE. In connection to the meeting, an Open Day was organised at the University of Évora. 201 persons form 18 countries attended the Open Day.  Participants included people from road and railway administrations, people from environmental administration, researchers from universities, NGOs, technicians from Environmental Impact Assessment firms and students. The main theme of the open day was "Transport infrastructure of the 21st century: connecting people and wildlife".

Detailed programme

Conclusions from Open Day

Presentations from Open Day

10th IENE meeting in Nyíregyháza, Hungary 9-12 April 2008

Report of the 10th IENE meeting

The meeting was multi-functional. The main focus was to reinforce and strengthen the IENE network. It was done by a welcome to new countries in the IENE network.
Those new member states didn’t participate before. As we noticed in several meetings of IENE and COST 341 the meetings are the engine for cooperation and actions. There you make new friends and see old ones; there you can check your ideas around new developments and new solutions and threats concerning the topic.

The goals for the meeting were:

• To come to an update of the state of the art report
• To get answers on old and new questions
• To encourage each other
• To hear about new developments, and new measures, new techniques, new research results
• Are there needs for the development of new fields of work adjacent of our old field of working, such as human/social aspects of de-fragmentation
• To explore the possibility to organize every 2 years an ’international conference’
• To explore and start collaborative actions
• To hear about promising programs to get a more updated European review