CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
The Call for abstracts will open on 1 December 2024
If you have research, experience or ideas on the connection between people and plants and the importance of plants for our communities and the health of the planet then we want to hear from you. We also want you to suggest (and run) workshops to share your great ideas and experiences in a more hands on way.
Plants are integral to culture and wellbeing. We want to explore stories from the past as well as look into the future. Our role in botanic gardens and arboreta is to enable visitors to immerse themselves in these stories and understand the multiple values of plants. A key role of botanic gardens and arboreta worldwide is conserving plants – both to enable their continued use and to conserve their intrinsic value and role in ecological communities.
Let’s explore some inspiring projects as well as look at the way we do things to ensure we are always improving and building on the way we engage people in conservation and work in respectful and collaborative partnerships within and outside of gardens.
We are seeking presentations that showcase projects, activities and research related to Botanic Gardens around the following themes:
- Innovation: advancing plant science, horticulture, and conservation, and special collections.
- Protecting plants and people: Plant health and risk management: Biosecurity, risk management, tree management, etc.
- Planning for the future: collection development, climate adaptation and succession planning.
- Branching out: engagement, inclusion, partnerships and outreach
Presentation Format:
- ORAL PRESENTATION – 20 minutes including questions
- SPEED TALKS - 5 minutes including questions
- WORKSHOP - 40 minutes
GENERAL INFORMATION
Submission guidelines
- Your abstract must be submitted online, as plain text.
- Please note title and presenter/s
- There is a word limit of 250 words.
- Images are not allowed.
Submission Deadline
Abstract submission closing date is Wednesday 30 April 2025.
Language of Submission
All abstracts must be submitted in English or accompanied by a version in English.
Review and Notification to Authors
All submitted abstracts will be reviewed. You will be informed by email of the acceptance status of your abstract from 15 May 2025.
Registration
All presenters are required to register and pay the Congress registration fee in order to be included in the program and to present on site. Registration and payment of registration fee by presenters of accepted abstracts must be completed no later than 31 July 2025.
Publication
Accepted abstracts will be published in the event app. By submitting an abstract, authors agree to publication of same by BGANZ.
Presentation
Oral Presentations, Speed Talks and Workshops will be included within topical sessions of the official congress programme.
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