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”, bridging natural and social sciences and empowering vulnerable communities in rural and mountain regions.
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 of a Europe in which pastoralists, hunters and landowners coexist with wildlife, particularly large carnivores and large herbivores, more successfully than today, with reduced depredation on livestock, more sustainable wildlife management and fewer socio-political conflicts around large carnivores. It highlighted CoCo's multi-disciplinary approach, its strong social science component and its Multi-Actor Approach, which brings together diverse stakeholders to co-create knowledge with high legitimacy.