Sustainable horticulture from plant to product: "Challenges in temperate climate"

You are cordially invited to the forthcoming conference that will take place from 26th to 28th of August 2020 in Riga, Latvia.

The aim of the meeting is to bring together the latest advances in research on the climate change challenges and other issues in temperate horticulture, and to provide an opportunity for exchange information and ideas and stimulate joint research and collaboration.

Preferred topics:
• Precise horticulture and smart farming
• Breeding and genetics
• Sustainable growing for climate change mitigation
• Biodiversity, soil and balancing of greenhouse gases
• Plant protection
• Post-harvest and food processing

Attels

Official language: English is the official language of the conference.
Organisers: Institute of Horticulture     
Conference is supported by ERDF project No. 1.1.1.5/18/I/004 Promotion of international cooperation projects in research and innovation at LLU and scientific institutions under its supervision.

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Secretary: Arturs Stalažs (Institute of Horticulture, Latvia)

Organising committee: 

Scientific committee:

  • Audrius Sasnauskas (Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry, Lithuania)
  • Dalija Segliņa (Institute of Horticulture, Latvia)
  • Edgars Rubauskis (Institute of Horticulture, Latvia)
  • Edīte Kaufmane (Institute of Horticulture, Latvia)
  • Gunārs Lācis (Institute of Horticulture, Latvia)
  • Inga Moročko-Bičevska (Institute of Horticulture, Latvia)
  • Ingunn Vaagen (Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research; Norway) 
  • Līga Lepse (Institute of Horticulture, Latvia)
  • Margit Olle (Estonian Crop Research Institute; Estonia)
  • Miroslaw Sitarek (Research Institute of Horticulture, Skierniewice; Poland) 

Preliminary programme:

Tuesday, August 25 - Arrival and accommodation

Wednesday, August 26

  • Registration*
  • Opening
  • Thematic sessions (presentations)

Thursday, August 27

  • Thematic sessions (presentations)
  • Social Dinner

Friday, August 28 - Technical tour (field excursions)*

* More detailed information on all events organised in frames of the conference will be available in the later announcements. The programme is planned to start early in the morning of 26 August. For that reason please plan your arrival on August 25. If you will participate in Technical tour, please do not plan your flights back to home on that day.

Venue
Information on conference venue will be given in the later announcements.
Participation fee (calculated in EUR)*
Early registration (until 30 April 2020).....................................................285
Late registration (from 1 May 2020)...........................................................305
* Invoices for the payment to each participant will be sent via e-mail after receiving the registration form.

Participation fee includes the conference abstract book, coffee breaks, lunches and social Dinner, technical tour and paper publication. Payment by bank transfer only.

Accommodation
We are looking for friendly hotels for the conference participants. More information on accommodation possibilities will be in the Second announcement.

Registration
Please, fill out the enclosed registration form and send it to: arturs.stalazs@llu.lv

Presentations
The conference will include invited key-note speaker presentations (40 minutes), ordinary oral presentations (20 minutes, including the time for discussion) and poster presentations.

Invited speakers
Invited speakers are planned. More information will be given in the next announ-cements.

Abstracts
Participation with a presentation will be accepted only if an abstract is submitted until 22 June 2020. Abstracts will be published in the conference abstract book.

Manuscripts
Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by international experts and published, after journal editorial board acceptance, in a special issue of the open access journal Proceedings of the Latvian Academy of Sciences. Section B. Natural, Exact, and Applied Sciences, at the first part of 2021
A printed version of Proceedings of the Latvian Academy of Sciences will be provided only by special request and will be charged separately.

Journal website:
https://content.sciendo.com/view/journals/prolas/prolas-overview.xml

Instructions for authors:
https://content.sciendo.com/supplemental/journals/prolas/prolas-overview.xml/Instructions_to_Authors.pdf

All papers must be submitted electronically, until 28 August 2016, to: gunars.lacis@llu.lv

Travel

  • By bus for European participants — International Bus Station is situated in Riga centre, and is close to many hotels which can be reached by walking or by public transport, if your hotel is not close to city centre.
  • By airplane — Riga International Airport is situated 13 km from centre of Riga city. Website of the airport: http://www.riga-airport.com/en/main/main.

Travel from Airport to centre of Riga city — for travelling from airport to Riga regular public bus traffic (city bus line number 22), several private bus lines and taxi services are available. For use of city transport lines, the special tickets should be obtained at news-stalls situated in the airport building. City transport tickets are available for a certain number of journeys, and, when you are inside transport, activation of the ticket is necessary. There is also possibility to buy (by cash) the ticket at bus driver, but then the price is higher.

More information on city transport lines is available at "Rīgas Satiksme" website: https://www.rigassatiksme.lv/en/.

If you choose a taxi, order it beforehand or from the airport (information available at passenger exit), as booking an unlicensed taxi outdoors may turn out very expen-sive.

Important dates
Second announcement    3 February 2020

  • Closing date for early-bird registration...............................30 April 2020
  • Closing date for submission of abstracts........................22 June 2020
  • Closing date for late registration...............................................22 June 2020
  • Final programme and other information............................20 July 2020
  • Submission of manuscript...................................................................28 August 2020

For details regarding conference please contact:
Arturs Stalažs (secretary), email: arturs.stalazs@llu.lv
Tel.: +371-26 71 14 11

Conference website:
https://www.darzkopibasinstituts.lv/lv/sustainable-horticulture-from-plant-to-product-challenges-in-temperate-climate

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