The South-East Europe Chapter of the Society for Urban Ecology (SURE- SE Europe) is an initiative started in 2014 following the International Workshop “Environmental Conflicts: Planning, Issues and Resolution”, September 4 – 6, 2014 in Bucharest, Romania.

The chapter was established in 2015 with the main purpose of providing research and networking opportunities for scientists with an active interest in urban ecology from countries in the South-Eastern part of Europe (Romania, Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Moldavia, Ukraine, FYROM, Albania, Hungary).

SURE – SE Europe Chapters established a series of objectives as follows:

•  Supporting the development of the field – urban ecology
•  Developing regional initiatives for research themes in the field of urban ecology
•  Improving the networking of specialists from SE Europe by creating an academic platform for debates
•  Help SURE establishing a world-wide network of specialists working in the field of urban ecology and profiting from this
•  Providing the opportunity for young and early stage researchers of developing their scientific career in the field of urban ecology

Chapter President

• Cristian Ioja (University of Bucharest CCMESI), Contact: cristian.ioja[at]g.unibuc.ro

First Executive Board

•  Chapter President – Cristian Ioja (University of Bucharest CCMESI), Contact: cristian.ioja[at]g.unibuc.ro
•  Chapter Secretary – Mihai  Razvan Nita (University of Bucharest CCMESI), Contact: mihairazvan.nita[at]g.unibuc.ro

Executive committee

•  SURE Greece – Olga Tzortzakaki (University of Patras), Contact: olgatzortz[at]gmail.com
•  SURE Hungary – Marton Kiss (University of Szeged), Contact: kiss.marton[at]geo.u-szeged.hu
•  SURE Romania – Mihai Razvan Nita (University of Bucharest), Contact: mihairazvan.nita[at]g.unibuc.ro
•  SURE Serbia – Ivana Blagojevic (University of Novi Sad), Contact: ivanab[at]polj.uns.ac.rs
•  SURE Turkey – Ince Iren (Izmir Institute of Technology), Contact: iremince2[at]gmail.com
•  SURE Ukraine – Marina Golivets (Megapolis Ecomonitoring and Biodiversity Research Centre of NAS Kyiv), Contact: marina.golivets[at]gmail.co

Research themes structure

•  Territorial planning – Angelica Stan (University of Architecture and Urbanism Ion Mincu, Romania), Contact: angelicastan[at]yahoo.com
•  Urban biodiversity – Marilena Onete (Institute of Biology of Romanian Academy), Contact: marilena.onete[at]gmail.com
•  Social aspects of urban ecology – Ionut Petrisor (University of Architecture and Urbanism, INCD URBAN-INCERC), Contact: alexandru_petrisor[at]yahoo.com
•  PhD section – Denisa Lavinia Badiu (University of Bucharest), Contact:  denisabadiu [at]gmail.com

The headquarters of SURE – SE Europe Chapter is at the University of Bucharest, Romania – 1 Nicolae Balcescu Blvd., Sector 1, Bucharest, 010041, Romania, Tel/Fax: +40-21-310 38 72, sure.geo.unibuc.ro/. You can also find the SURE – SE Chapter on Facebook (facebook.com/Sure.SE.Europe) and ResearchGate.

Chapter reports

Chapter Report 2023

Chapter Report 2018/2019

Chapter Report 2022/2023

Chapter Report 2017/2018

Chapter Report 2022

News

Latest event organized by the SURE Chapter South-East Europe: 10th Anniversary Workshop of Society for Urban Ecology 5-6 September 2019 in Bucharest

Workshop organized by the SURE Chapter South-East Europe in May 2018: Workshop „Nature-Based Solutions for sustainable Romanian cities”

SURE Summer School organized by the SURE Chapter South-East Europe in August 2017: Summer School „Urban Climate Change Challenge: Monitoring, Assessment & Adaptation”

Second Workshop organized by the SURE Chapter South-East Europe in July 2017: Workshop „Green Infrastructure for Sustainable Urban Planning”

First Workshop organized by the SURE Chapter South-East Europe in November 2015: SURE-Workshop „Challenges in the assessment of urban ecosystems services“