Rudolf de Groot ESP Summer School 2025​​​​​​​​​

The first edition of the Rudolf de Groot ESP Summer School 2025, will provide early-career researchers with theoretical and practical training on value transfer methods for ecosystem service valuation and mapping. With the growing need to integrate nature into economic decision-making, understanding and experience on how to quantify, transfer, and map ecosystem service values is essential for both research and policy applications. Participants will learn to master, use and implement different value transfer methods and strengthen related skills during the Summer School. The work will consist of a combination of seminars, value transfer applications, ecosystem service value mapping, presentations, discussions with peers and several excursions.

It will take place from 1 September to 5 September 2025 at University of Aveiro, Portugal.

Key Topics Covered:

• The role of ecosystem service valuation in policy and decision-making
• Methods for value transfer, including unit value, value function and meta-analytic function transfer approaches
• Application and mapping of ecosystem service values using value transfer methods
• Hands-on applications using real-world case studies

Who Should Apply?
PhD candidates, PostDocs, and early-career researchers with a background in ecology, economics, geography and/or environmental sciences.
Participants will present their research and explore how value transfer can be applied to their work.

Important Dates:

• Application opens: 14 April 2025
• Deadline: 14 May 2025
• Results announced: 31 May 2025
• Registration deadline: 15 July 2025

For more information visit the website.