BEST POSTER awards winner (by the votes of participants):

Nina Vasilieva, Ludmila Savinetskaya, Nikita Vasiliev & Andrey Tchabovsky: Lifetime reproductive success in yellow ground squirrel females: insights from a long-term study

BEST ORAL PRESENTATION awards winner (by the votes of participants):

Irena Schneiderová, Lucie Štefanská & Lukáš Kratochvíl: Whistling at the Tower of Babel: geographic variability in alarm calls of the European Ground Squirrel

CONGRATULATIONS for the winners!

Last updates:

10 October 2018 - Book of Abstracts is available! 

30 September 2018 - Final programme uploaded!

30 September 2018 - List of participants

25 September 2018 - Preliminary programme uploaded to Programme and social events.

Last but not least: the VII. EGSM logo was born (23.09.2018.):

Poster size: max. A0 (841x1189 mm), Orientation: portrait

Because of the end of summer holiday and start od academic year deadline of registration and abstract submission was postponed to 

10th of September 2018. 24:00 h!                       ENDED!

Second Announcement

It is our great pleasure to announce new information through this second circular related to VII. European Ground Squirrel Meeting.

The meeting will take place in Budapest, Hungary from the 3^rd to the 5^th of October, organised by the Fertő-Hanság National Park Directorate (within the frame of the RaptorspreyLIFE project entitled: Securing prey sources for endangered Falco cherrug and Aquila heliaca population in the Carpathian basin, No.: LIFE13 NAT/HU/000183).

The venue of the meeting will be in the exhibition building of the Hungarian Natural History Museum, in Budapest (1083 Budapest, Ludovika tér 2-6. webpage: http://nhmus.hu/en). Besides EGS, as another target species of the Raptorsprey LIFE, presentations of scientific or nature conservation works on European hamsters (Cricetus cricetus) are also welcome. The programme of the VII. EGSM will be expanded by a two-day pre-meeting workshop on subterranean rodents, including blind mole rats, from the 1^st to the 2^nd of October, which is supported by the Hungarian Natural History Museum. This workshop is open for every participants of the EGSM.

Registration of the VII. EGSM is open now, thus we would like to ask you to register by filling the online form can be found on http://sakerlife3.mme.hu/en/content/registration-and-abstract-submission before 1^st of September. Abstracts can be uploaded in the same link. (Please, consider that there is a longer space in the webpage under the registration form and before the abstract submission form.) There is no limitation in the number of abstract related to a single participant, however organisers keep the rights to select among the submitted presentations in the case of limiting time. Please upload your abstracts before the deadline of 1^st of September!

Participation in both the ‘subterranean rodent workshop’ and the VII. EGSM are free of registration fee, furthermore coffee breaks will be fully (tea, coffee and sandwich) and lunch will be fully or partially (depending on the number of participants) financed by the Raptorspray LIFE. However, due to financial limitations, we cannot cover travel and accommodation costs.

For further information, (social event, schedule, accommodation etc.) please, check this website regularly for updates.

We are looking forward to seeing you in Budapest in October!

On behalf of the Organising Committee.

First Announcement

Dear Colleagues,

It is our great pleasure to invite you to participate in the VII. European Ground Squirrel Meeting held in Budapest, Hungary on 3-5 October, 2018.

Our goal is to bring together scientists and practical conservationists from all over Europe working in various areas of European ground squirrel´s biology and conservation. The event gives possibility to present novel scientific results as well as conservation management experiences and practices related to this rodent species. You are invited to present and discuss about forefront studies and future perspectives, as well. The meeting also gives the opportunity to friendly meetings and fruitful talks. The organisers will strongly encourage an integrative approach, which will be guaranteed by a wide variety of topics (e.g. biogeography, ecology, behaviour, physiology, genetics and conservation).

The idea of this bi-annual event goes back to 2002, when a kick-off meeting in Madjarovo, Bulgaria was initiated by BirdLife (Stoycho Stoychev). Since 2006, it has been organised every two years, with the first EGSM in Felsőtárkány, Hungary, the second in Sv. Jan pod Skalou, Czech Republic, the third in Ordu, Turkey, the fourth in Kamień Śląski, Poland, the fifth in Rust, Austria and the sixth in Beograd, Serbia.

The meeting is being organised by the Fertő-Hanság National Park Directorate (within the frame of the RaptorspreyLIFE project entitled: Securing prey sources for endangered Falco cherrug and Aquila heliaca population in the Carpathian basin, No.: LIFE13 NAT/HU/000183). The venue of the meeting will be the Hungarian Natural History Museum, in Budapest.

The program of the VII. EGSM will be expanded by a two-day pre-meeting workshop on subterranean rodents, including blind mole rats, on 1-2 October which is supported by the Hungarian Natural History Museum. The workshop will be open for every participants of the EGSM.

Participation in both the ‘subterranean rodent workshop’ and the VII. EGSM are free from registration fee, while coffee breaks (tea, coffee, sandwich) and lunch will be provided; however, due to financial limitations, we cannot offer support for travel or accommodation.

For further information, (registration, abstract submission, social event, schedule, accommodation etc.) please, check here regularly.

We are looking forward to seeing you there!

On behalf of the Organising Committee,
Dr. Olivér Váczi and Dr. Attila Németh

Sneaker Bar Detroit (SBD)