Nature and Urban Wellbeing is an ALTER-Net conference, in partnership with the European Commission. Two committees, the Organising Committee (OC) and Science and Policy Committee (SPC), are responsible for all arrangements. We thank the following for all their help in organising this event:

Science and Policy Committee

• Timo Assmuth, Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), Finland - CHAIR
• Hans Keune, Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO), Belgium - VICE-CHAIR

• Sanna-Riikka Saarela, Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), Finland - SECRETARY

• Adrian Peres, European Commission, DG-RTD
• Sofie Vandewoestijne, European Commission, DG-RTD
• Karin Zaunberger, European Commission, DG-ENV
• Marcus Grant, WHO Collaborating Centre for Healthy Urban Environments, University of West England, UK
• Katherine Irvine, James Hutton Institute (JHI), Scotland, UK
• Jana Verboom, Alterra, The Netherlands
• David Barton, Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), Norway
• Dagmar Haase, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Germany

Advisory members

• Maurice Hoffmann, Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO), Belgium
• Allan Watt, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH), UK
• Eeva Furman, Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE) / Environmental Policy Centre, Finland

Organizing Committee

• Timo Assmuth, Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), Finland - CHAIR

• Sanna-Riikka Saarela, Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), Finland - SECRETARY

• Tessa Van Santen, (INBO), Belgium

• Andrew Sier, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH), UK
• Marie Wandevalle, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Germany
• Ayşegül Çil, European Centre for nature Conservation (ECNC), The Netherlands
• Erik Stange, Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), Norway