CoCo at Forum Carpaticum 2025
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Bratislava, Slovakia
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Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava (host); co organised with the EUKI project “Empowering Roma Communities in the Green Deal.
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The 8th Forum Carpaticum brought together researchers, policymakers, practitioners, and the interested public to address sustainable development in the mountain and rural areas of the Carpathian region. The conference was hosted by the Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences at Comenius University in Bratislava, and co‑organised with the EUKI project “Empowering Roma Communities in the Green Deal”.
During the session “Safeguarding Carpathian Pastoralism“, Robin Rigg from CoCo partner University of Ljubljana gave a presentation titled "Co-creating coexistence: a vision for pastoralism and wildlife in multi-functional landscapes", introducing the CoCo project and its work on integrating wildlife and livestock management into sustainable multi-functional landscapes across Europe, including its three Carpathian case study countries: Poland, Romania and Slovakia.
The presentation set out CoCo's vision for Europe, in which pastoralists, hunters, and landowners would coexist more successfully than they do today with wildlife, particularly large carnivores and herbivores. This would entail reduced livestock depredation, more sustainable wildlife management, and fewer socio-political conflicts surrounding large carnivores. The presentation also emphasised CoCo's multidisciplinary approach and its robust social science component, as well as its Multi-Actor Approach, which unites various stakeholders to collaboratively develop legitimate knowledge.