Bouchout+10 Symposium

Rediscovering Known Biodiversity Knowledge

Join us for the Bouchout+10 Symposium in Disentis
on August 21st to 23rd 2024

Empowering Discovery: A Decade of Open Biodiversity and Beyond

Bouchout+10 will celebrate the achievements of the original Bouchout Declaration ten years after its initial release, explore where it can do better and chart the future to enhance access to biodiversity knowledge.

Bouchout+10

The Bouchout+10 Disentis meeting will take place August 21st to 23rd 2024, in the Disentis monastery in the Swiss Alps.

Celebration

Let’s celebrate the achievements 10 years after the signing of the Bouchout Declaration on Open Biodiversity Knowledge Management.

Declaration

We will boost the declaration for the next decade by evaluating ten years of experience and updating the declaration.

Highlight

Highlighting data at work – and how it speeds up discovery and conservation, management and equal distribution to anybody anywhere and at any time.

Future

Looking into the future and plan, discuss and develop a vision and strategy to get there.

Place

Disentis will be a Milestone for the development of the Bouchout philosophy – where the Benedictine monk Placidus a Spescha explored in the spirit of the enlightenment the environment of this region.

The Venue

The symposium will take place at the Monastery of Disentis,
the home of the 18th century monk Placidus a Spescha,
the inspiration behind the name and work of Plazi.