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Lunch-seminarium: Invasiva arter – värstingarna i Sverige och världen

När: 19 maj 2025, 11.30-12.30

Vart: Folkets hus - Miklagård, Umeå

Kostnad: Gratis

Ingen anmälan

Spendera en lunch med att lära dig mer om våra invasiva främmande arter. Kom och lyssna när länsstyrelsen Västerbotten berättar om de invasiva värstingarna i Sverige. Vi kikar även på arter vi absolut inte vill få hit och hur vi ska göra för att undvika detta.

Varmt välkomna.

Lunch-seminar: Invasive species – worst invasive species in Sweden

When: 19th of may 2025, 11.30 – 12.30

Where: Folkets hus, Umeå

Cost: Free

Come and listen to a seminar where Länsstyrelsen Västerbotten talks about the worst invasive species in Sweden. We also talk about the species that we absolutely do not want and how we can avoid it.

Welcome!

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Tervetuloa maksuttomaan webinaariin oppimaan, miten voit tunnistaa ja ehkäistä vieraslajien leviämistä omassa pihassasi tai puutarhassasi.

Aika: keskiviikko 23.4.2025 klo 16.00 - 17.30
Paikka: Verkkotapahtuma: Löydät täältä webinaaritallenteen (puhuttu suomeksi, diat ruotsiksi) sekä esitysdiat kahdella kielellä!

Tapahtuman esiintyjät:

• Chelsea Flower Show -palkittu puutarhasuunnittelija ja tutkija Taina Suonio
• INSPIRE-hankkeen vieraslajiasiantuntija Markus Seppälä

Ilmoittaudu mukaan ja suojele puutarhasi lisäksi koko suomalaista luontoa!

Date and Title: 24.3.2025 – IAS meeting and engagement workshop for the 7 municipalities along the Kyrönjoki river catchment area

Organizer and participants: EPO ELY INSPIRE-team, 6 municipalites, facilities by City of Seinäjoki

Place (if applicable): Seinäjoki City Hall, meeting room Aallotar

Describe the event or result: Whole-day event with morning coffees, presentation on current IAS situation in the focus area and info on the most probable IAS pathways for spread. After lunch we continued into ELY/INSPIRE’s suggestions for IAS management capacity building within each participating municipality and presentation on the foreseen good results that may come with municipalities working together.

Date and title: 19.3.2025 IAS webinar for garden, plant nursery and florist entrepreneurs

Organizer and participants: EPO ELY and ELY INSPIRE-team, garden sector professionals

Place: Teams-webinar

Describe the event or result: Basic information on IAS, legislation in Finland, pathways of spread and conversation on ways INSPIRE could be of service to the garden sector and the consumers.

Date and title: 24.2.2025 – Workshop:  garden markets with guest host Anders Stålhand

Organizer and participants: Länsstyrelsen Västerbotten, Andres Stålhand (gardener) and garden markets from Västerbotten county

Place (if applicable): Umeå

Describe the event or result: 6 companies attended and a network was created. Very good discussions about the responsibilities of garden markets.

Date and title: 19.2.2025 – Crossborder exchange – Länsstyrelsen visits national IAS ELY-network meeting

Organizer and participants: ELY, Länsstyrelsen Västerbotten

Place: Teams

Describe the event or result: Länsstyrelsens Linda Backlund gave a presentation about cost-efficient methods in the world of IAS: supervision strategies, landowner engagement, common communication material and national IAS control method catalogue.

Date and title: 4.-5.5. – Municipality IAS-theme days

Organizer and participants: Länsstyrelsen in the four northern counties, municipalities from the north of Sweden (almost 100 participants)

Place (if applicable): Webinar

Describe the event or result: Yearly IAS-days for the municipalities in the northern parts of Sweden that is hosted by the CAB-s. INSPIRE joined to talk about the engagement model and the municipality guide.

Date and time: 4.2.2025 – Pre-seminar presentation and panel discussion in Viherpäivät national event for professionals in green infrastructure builders.

Organizer and participants: Viherympäristöliitto, ELY INSPIRE and Natural Resources Institute of Finland. 40-50 live participants plus 4 panel discussion members

Place: Paviljonki Event Centre (City of Jyväskylä), Finland

Describe the event or result: We offered information on IAS pathways of spread, IAS lists of EU- and national concern and then moved on to discuss the various challenges IAS cause the field of green building and what measures should be taken to solve these challenges. The audience were able to participate by joining a live Mentimeter-survey and sending their questions to the panelists. The esteemed panelists were Päivi Kortelainen (Green area specialist and IAS manager for the City of Jyväskylä), Taina Suonio (Chelsea Flower Show-award winning horticulturist, researcher and landscape entrepreneur), Sami Kiema (dendrologist and nature and green area consultancy entrepreneur) and Miia Korhonen (IAS management entrepreneur, Luontoturva Ky).

Date and title: 3.12.2024 – National seminar on adapting practices to climate change, for professionals in green and natural resources field.

Organizer and participants: ELYs’ joint department on Climate change, ELY INSPIRE (Markus Seppälä)

Place: Verkatehdas Event Centre, City of Hämeenlinna, Finland

Describe the event or result: A whole-day event with presentations on various topics and finally a panel discussion. ELY INSPIRE gave a presentation on INSPIRE’s plans and pathways of spread for the IAS and how the probability of spread for invasive alien species is growing with warming climate and its effects on the growing season and winter time.

Link to event or result: Ideoita ja vaikuttavuutta ilmastonmuutokseen sopeutuville luonnonvara-aloille -tilaisuus Hämeenlinnassa 3.12.2024 - Valtakunnallinen ilmastoyksikkö - ELY-keskus

Date and title: 26.9.2024 – ELY’s biannual IAS meeting with regions municipalities, with INSPIRE. Finland.

Organizer and participants: EPO ELY INSPIRE-team and ELY’s IAS official, senior inspector Johanna Mykkänen.

Place: Teams-meeting, Finland

Describe the event or result: ELY-organized training day in Seinäjoki for the region’s municipalities about biodiversity/nature conservation in EPO ELY area. Short INSPIRE project presentation and presenting Finnish IAS management toolkit for municipalities. Networking with municipalities about IAS cases, inspection and legislation. Surveying previous cases.

Date and title: 17.9.2024 – Presentation on INSPIRE engagement plans and goals at a Finnish Landscape Management Areas managers (“FLMA”) meeting.

Organizer and participants: FLMA, Ministry of Environment, Lapland ELY Conservation department, EPO ELY, with INSPIRE (Markus Seppälä) as invited presenter

Place: Hyypänjokilaakso area (City of Kauhajoki) and via Teams, Finland

Describe the event or result: Two-day event with presentation on 17.9. and field visits on 18.9. INSPIRE’s Markus Seppälä participated via Teams on 17.9.

Date and title: 23.8.2024 – IAS info and Himalayan balsam weeding event at Variska School in Vaasa, Finland

Organizer and participants: Leena Virkki, Variska School & Simo Marttila (INSPIRE, City of Vaasa

Place: Variskan School & Lehtikuusentie, Vaasa

Describe the event or result: IAS information, education and demonstration of removal practices for around 100 8^th grade students.

Link to event or result: https://www.vaasa.fi/en/news/invasive-species-education-at-variska-comprehensive-school/

Date and title: 10.7. – 20.8.2024 – Fifteen talko events for Himalayan balsam control (Vaasa City / INSPIRE), Finland

Place and organiser: various sites in Vaasa area (Simo Marttila – City of Vaasa, co-organizer in brackets);

1. Sunnanviks odlingslotter (Helena Kyröläinen – Vaasan kävelyklubi ry )
2. Edvininpolku and Edvininpuisto (Kari Rapo – Edvininpolun perinneseura ry)
3. Arboretum & Rytilaakso area (Päivi Teppo – Vaasa Marthas of Hietalahti area)
4. Tamronpuisto & Tiklaspuisto (Anna-Lea Starck – Mielle ry and Työpaja Komppis)
5. Gerbynmäki, Gerby (Katja Bönas – BK-48 F14)
6. Onkilahti, north and east sides (Jens Smedlund – VIFK P2010)
7. Ristinummi frisbeegolf track (Vaasas Suomi-Amerikka association)
8. Suvilahti, gravel road near shore (Jens Smedlund – Sundom IF P 2012)
9. Old Vaasa Canal from old Youth house (Olavi Laitala – Old Vaasa association)
10. Multisport area surroundings (Jinna Vilpponen – Mielle ry and Työpaja Spurtti)
11. Kolkki route towards Kotanen (Marika Kojonen – Marthas of Kyrönmaa area)
12. Kolkki route, the shore (Teemu Linna – Vähänkyrön Viestis football juniors)
13. Ojaniemi bridge area towards Kirkkosaari (Reino Paloniemi – Pensioners Union, Vähänkyrö association)
14. Kolkki route, running path (Teemu Linna – Vähänkyrön Viestis football juniors). Link to article: https://www.pohjankyro-lehti.fi/uutiset/jalkapalloilijat-torjuivat-jattipalsamia-merikaarrossa-6.4.601329.b675a2d368
15. Ojaniemi bridge area towards Kirkkosaari (Reino Paloniemi – Vähäkyrö-Seura Association)

Date and title: 4.-5.7.2024 – Farmari-messut (“Farmers Fair”) event in Seinäjoki, Finland

Organizer and participants: EPO ELY (different departments) and ELY’s INSPIRE-team (Markus, Johanna and 4 IAS trainees)

Place: Seinäjoki

Describe the event or result: The event had a total visitor number of 91 000, of which we estimate 2 000 – 3 000 passing by the ELY stand area. INSPIRE planned IAS material (printed species-specific management instructions) and manned activities aimed at children and families; we had a very popular “wheel of Fortune” apparatus with task to identify whether a species was IAS or native. The other was game “of IAS management”, where you gather points by throwing beanbags through holes in a wall, where each hole represented a different IAS species and its points.

Link to event or result: Farmari | Farmari 2024 - kymmeniä tuhansia kävijöitä, satoja…

Date and title: 18.7.2024 - Arbetsgille/Talko in Ersforsen, Umeå, Sweden

Organizer and participants: Umeå municipality

Place (if applicable): Ersforsen, Umeå

Describe the event or result: Arbetsgille/Talko eradicating Himalyan balsam. Five people living in the area participated.

Date and title: 3.7.2024 - Arbetsgille/Talko in Ersforsen, Umeå, Sweden

Organizer: Umeå municipality and County Administrative Board of Västerbotten  (Länsstyrelsen)

Place (if applicable): Ersforsen, Umeå

Describe the event or result: Arbetsgille/Talko eradicating Himalyan balsam. 30ish people living in the area participated. The event was reported on both local TV and newspaper. 

Link to event or result: Här försöker de utrota jättebalsamin längs Tavelån: ”Sprids längs vatten” | SVT Nyheter

Date and title: 29.6.2024 – Field day in Bubäcken engagement area

Organizer and particpants: Länsstyrelsen Västerbotten and Bubäcken land owners

Place (if applicable): Stöcke/Bubäcken, Umeå, Sweden.

Describe the event or result: Lecture about IAs and a following field tour to look at Himalayan balsam, talk about eradication methods and so on. Approximately 10 people participated.

Date and title: 18.-19.6.2024 – IAS Barents project visits INSPIRE in Sweden!

Organizer: Länsstyrelsen Västerbotten, Barents IAS-project

Place (if applicable): Umeås surroundings, Sweden

Describe the event or result: Barents IAS-project visited INSPIRE (Länsstyrelsen and Umeå municipality) to exchange knowledge, produce a movie about crossborder cooperation etc.

Link to event or result: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3gGslMfixM

Date and title: 14.5.2024 - Webinar about IAS for garden markets, Vol. 2

Organizer and participants: Länsstyrelsen Västerbotten, garden markets in Västerbotten county (six companies)

Place: Webinar

Describe the event or result: Basic education about invasive species and the important role that garden markets have.

Date and title: 26.-28.5.2024 - NOLIA Garden fair in Umeå

Organizer and participants: Länsstyrelsen Västerbotten (and Länsstyrelsen Norrbotten and Västernorrland)

Place: Umeå, Sweden

Describe the event or result: Northern Sweden’s largest garden fair. INSPIRE team gave lectures about invasive alien species two days for the visitors.

Date and title: 24.4.2024 – EPO ELY biannual IAS meeting with regions municipalities, with INSPIRE

Organizer and participants: ELY’s IAS official, senior inspector Johanna Mykkänen and ELY INSPIRE-team

Place: Teams-meeting

Describe the event or result: ELY-organized training day in Seinäjoki for the region’s municipalities about biodiversity/nature conservation in EPO ELY area. Short INSPIRE project presentation and presenting the results for an earlier (Fall 2021) IAS Survey to all Finnish municipalities. Networking with municipalities about IAS cases, inspection and legislation. Surveying previous cases.

Date and title: 23.4.2024 - Webinar about IAS for garden markets, Vol. 1

Organizer and participants: Länsstyrelsen Västerbotten, garden markets in Västerbotten county. Six companies participated.

Place: Webinar

Describe the event or result: Basic education about invasive species and the important role that garden markets have.