Plovdiv, Bulgaria | July 7–10, 2026 — Five researchers representing five partner institutions represented LifeWatch Slovenia at the LifeWatch ERIC Biodiversity and Ecosystem eScience Conference (BEeS 2026) in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. The team presented pioneering research spanning subterranean climate vulnerability, citizen science monitoring, species habitat mapping, and remote sensing.
LifeWatch Slovenia members Magdalena Nǎpǎruş-Aljančič and Tanja Pipan (Karst Research Institute – ZRC SAZU) co-authored a new, open-access article in BioScience, titled “Patterns and Drivers of Subterranean Biodiversity Hotspots across the Globe”. The study maps global subterranean biodiversity hotspots, highlighting the exceptional richness of the Dinaric Karst. In fact, the extreme environment of caves...
The cave-dwelling olm: a sentinel for environmental change – LifeWatch Slovenia on Nautilus Magazine ProteusWatch vLab’s Research, part of the LifeWatch Slovenia Consortium, has been featured on Nautilus Magazine. Deep beneath Europe’s karst landscapes lives the olm (Proteus anguinus), a pale, blind amphibian once thought to be the offspring of dragons. Elusive...
Between June 30 and July 3, 2025, the LifeWatch ERIC BEeS (Biodiversity and Ecosystem eScience) Conference took place in Heraklion, Crete, Greece, in which representatives of the Slovenian LifeWatch consortium also actively participated.The conference focused on the triple planetary crisis (climate change, biodiversity loss...
LifeWatch ERIC BEeS 2025: Biodiversity & Ecosystem eScience Conference Heraklion, Greece, 30 June – 03 July 2025The BEeS (Biodiversity and Ecosystem eScience) Conference 2025 will gather researchers, policymakers, and experts to tackle the Triple Planetary Crisis (climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution) through eScience and...
LifeWatch Slovenia at BES Annual Meeting in Liverpool, December 10-13, 2024 From 10 to 13 December 2024, over 1500 ecologists gathered in Liverpool for Europe’s largest conference dedicated to ecology: British Ecological Society Annual Meeting. The event held particular relevance for LifeWatch ERIC, thanks to a...
5th International SOS Proteus Conference, December 7-8, 2024, Kranj, Slovenia Upon the 30th anniversary of the taxonomic description of black proteus (Proteus anguinus parkelj), and 38 years since its discovery by Prof. Andrej Mihevc (1952–2024), Tular Cave Laboratory, in partnership with City of Kranj and...
LifeWatch Slovenia featured in the LifeWatch ERIC newsletter In the July-August 2024 LifeWatch Newsletter issue the photo of the month was featured from our colleague Petra Slavinec of the Marine Biological Station in Piran, Slovenia, taken with a scanning electron microscope, provided within the RI-SI-LifeWatch...
LifeWatch Slovenia hosted the 5th Thematic Service Workshop on Biodiversity Observatory Automation On April 11, LifeWatch Slovenia recently hosted the 5th Thematic Service Workshop on Biodiversity Observatory Automation at the National Institute of Biology in Ljubljana. The workshop focused on reviewing and updating the requirements for...
LifeWatch Slovenia featured in the LifeWatch ERIC newsletter In the December 2023 LifeWatch Newsletter issue the photo of the month was featured from our colleague Žan Kafol from LifeWatch Slovenia, who won the National Geographic 2023 photo contest for the second year in a row. The photo title...
Participation in the conference LifeWatch ERIC BEeS Participation in the conference LifeWatch ERIC BEeS “Threats and challenges to biodiversity and ecosystem conservation from an eScience perspective,” Sevilla, Spain, May 22 – 24, 2023.Gregor Aljančič, along with co-authors, presented the first results obtained with the RI-SI-LifeWatch...
Voices of Women – Nataša Pipenbaher (SI) & Ana Filipa Filipe (PT) Our colleague Nataša Pipenbaher was collaborating at the LifeWatch ERIC Voices of Women podcast.Women scientists speak candidly about their work, experience of bias and the value of women in research.This last in the...
LifeWatch ERIC Podcast – The underground Karst caves of Postojna Season 3, Episode 10 of ‘A Window in Science‘ regards the demanding and sometimes dangerous biodiversity and ecosystem research in the underground Karst caves of Postojna, Slovenia. Karst is a special type of landscape that...
LifeWatch Slovenia on the LifeWatch ERIC Science TV Channel LifeWatching WebTV is here! Introducing your 1-stop platform for video content on biodiversity & ecosystem research in Europe!From documentaries, to snapshots, to livestreams, there’s content for all appetites– switch over now! Go to site...
SOS Proteus - 4th international meeting Trieste, Italy, 21–22 May 2022. The 4th “SOS Proteus” international meeting is dedicated to the conservation of the olm and its habitat, faced with climate challenges, and the 260th anniversary of the first scientific description of Proteus anguinus by Joannes Antonius Scopoli. Experts...