ICUP 2025

Early bird registration open for ICUP 2025

All those keen to attend the forthcoming 11th International Conference on Urban Pests (ICUP) to be held between 29 June to 2 July 2025 in Lund, Sweden are encouraged to take advantage of the super early bird registration discount of 25% if they book before 15 January 2025.

If this super early discount is missed, there is still a more modest discount for bookings made by 31 March 2025. Registrations from 1 April 2025 are at the full price.

Bona-fide students are especially welcome at the conference, and are eligible for a 50% reduction in the registration fee.

Included within the registration fee is a range of items including the opening reception, conference breaks, lunches and the conference dinner. These events are always popular networking opportunities, making them a most rewarding part of ICUP events. The organising committee is keen to include as many as possible within the registration fee.

Registration is now open via the ICUP 2025 website at www.icup.org.uk/icup-2025

The 11th ICUP conference will take place at AF-Borgen, the Academic Society (Akademiska Föreningen) building in the centre of the medieval city of Lund in southern Sweden. The recommended way to get to Lund is via train from Copenhagen airport and once there, the city boasts a range of hotels to meet all budgets. Again, details are on the conference website at www.icup.org.uk/icup-2025.

The Organising Committee aims to highlight urban areas as environments where biodiversity is perceived as both an opportunity and a threat. In these areas, citizens are in close contact with other species, so quickly develop technologies

that shape the relationship between humans and these other species. To reflect this, ICUP 2025 has the general theme of ‘Smart and Sustainable Management of Urban Animals.’

Jette Knudsen, chair of the ICUP 2025 Organising Committee thanks all those who submitted abstracts and said: “We are now working hard to review and process all the abstracts and plan to have an outline programme early in the new year”

Previous ICUP conferences have been held in Cambridge, England (1993), Edinburgh, Scotland (1996) Prague, Czech Republic (1999), Charleston, USA (2002), Singapore (2005) Budapest, Hungary (2008), Ouro Preto, Brazil (2011), Zurich, Switzerland (2014) Birmingham, UK (2017) and Barcelona, Spain (2022).