Organisers

Soil-Bioengineering: Ecological Restoration with Native Plant and Seed Material

Organizing Committee

• A. Blaschka
• H. Egger
• W. Graiss
• E. Hacker
• B. Krautzer
• A. Löhring
• E. Rüscher

in alphabetical order

Scientific Committee

• E. Hacker
• B. Krautzer
• J. Parente
• G. Peratoner
• E.M. Pötsch

in alphabetical order

Organizers

	Research and Education Centre for Agriculture Raumberg Gumpenstein Höhere Bundeslehr- und Forschungsanstalt für Landwirtschaft Raumberg-Gumpenstein
The centre (until 2004: Federal Research Institute for Agriculture in Alpine Regions) is in operation since 1947 and belongs to the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management. It is the only institute in Austria working in the field of agriculture in alpine regions, especially on aspects of plant and animal production and its ecological and economical consequences. Part of the Centre is an agricultural college, which will be the main location for our conference.
	German Federation for Soil-Bioengineering (reg. assoc.) Gesellschaft für Ingenieurbiologie e.V.
The federation wishes to improve the research in the field of soil-bioengineering, to foster the exchange of ideas and experience among scientists and specialists, thus stimulating the application and use of soil-bioengineering as a near-natural method.
	European Federation for Soil Bioengineering (EFIB) Europäische Föderation für Ingenieurbiologie
EFIB is the organisation which includes all the associations and bioengineering companies. It wishes to improve bioengineering as a constructive discipline having with its own technical, ecological and environmentally friendly sphere with the use of living materials. These purposes are persued by using natural construction modes and exploitation of the great potential of the materials used. The Federation was founded in 1995 and it has gathered all the traditions and the experience of the different European associations, which started their activity between 1980 and 1990, even if in some countries such as Austria, Germany or Switzerland, bioengineering was only operative starting from the beginning of the 1970.

Co-Organizers

	Bundesministerium für Land- und Forstwirtschaft, Umwelt und Wasserwirtschaft (BMLFUW) Austrian Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management
	Austrian Grassland Federation Österreichische Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Grünland und Futterbau
	Verband deutscher Wildsamen- und Wildpflanzenproduzenten e.V.