Plenary Lectures

• Prof Thord Fransson, Department of Environmental Research and Monitoring at the Swedish Museum of Natural History and Head of the Swedish Bird Ringing Centre, Stockholm, Sweden

"Bird migration and climate change"

• Prof. Stelios Katsanevakis, University of the Aegean, Mytilini, Greece

"Mediterranean under siege - impacts of biological invasions and climate change"

• Prof. Federico Morelli, Czech University of Life Sciences, Praha – Prague, Czechia

"Disentangling the main effects of urbanization on taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic avian diversity in European cities"

• Prof. Emer. E. Zouros, University of Crete, Greece

"Competition and cooperation: from the beginnings of life to human societies"