10:00–11:00

Registration of participants. Morning coffee. Informal networking

11:00–11:45

Opening of the conference. Welcome speeches.

Maksym Kozytskyi – Head of the Lviv Regional Military Administration; 

Yuriy Kholod – Head of the Lviv Regional Council; 

Yuriy Radelitsky – Chair of the Standing Committee on Agriculture, Entrepreneurship and Investment of the Lviv Regional Council

Krzysztof Lukianowicz – Consul of the Republic of Poland in Lviv 

Vasyl Khimyak – Head of the Representative Office of the Joint Secretariat of the Interreg NEXT Poland–Ukraine Programme 2021–2027; 

Gustaw Jendrejk – President of the Lublin Chamber of Agriculture; 

Ivan Parubchak – Rector of the S.Z. Gzhytskyi Lviv National University of Veterinary Medicine and Biotechnology; 

Krzysztof Kowalczyk – Rector of the University of Life Sciences in Lublin; 

Radosław Dobrowolski – Rector of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University; 

Lyudmyla Honcharenko – Director of the Department of Agricultural and Industrial Development of the Lviv Regional State Administration

Kateryna Krykunenko – Coordinator of the AKIS Ukraine system

11:45–12:05

12:05–12:25

12:25–12:45

12:45–13:00

Scientific presentations – moderator: Ihor VUYTSYK

1. The impact of invasive Sosnowski’s hogweed on local biodiversity – methodology of field research in Poland.

Mariusz Kulik – University of Life Sciences in Lublin

2. Heracleum Sosnovskyi Manden. Characteristics of the population as factors describing its status and invasive potential.

Anna Rysyak, Agnieszka Hanaka – Maria Curie-Skłodowska University

3. Field methods for the control and eradication of Sosnowski’s hogweed.

Malgorzata Galinarz, Sylwia Andruszczak – University of Life Sciences in Lublin

4. The spread and damage caused by Sosnowski’s hogweed in Ukraine.

Ivan Shuvar – S.Z. Gzhytskyi Lviv National University of Veterinary Medicine and Biotechnology

13:00–14:00

Lunch

14:00–15:15

First panel discussion – moderator: Bohdan Hulko

Exchange of current experience between Ukrainian and Polish scientists, ecologists and practitioners regarding research and methods for controlling hogweed

Presentation of methodologies and technologies for scientific research and control of hogweed in Ukraine and Poland

Experts:

Mirosława Chwil, Helena Chwintal, Piotr Kraska, Dorota Hawenda, Ewa Kwiecińska-Poppe – University of Life Sciences in Lublin

Hanna Korpita, Volodymyr Balkovskyi – S.Z. Hrytskyi Lviv National University of Veterinary Medicine and Biotechnology

15:15–16:15

Second panel discussion – moderator: Hanna Korpita

Threats posed by invasive species to the ecosystems of the border regions of Ukraine and Poland. Known methods of controlling hogweed populations.

Analysis of the effectiveness of existing control methods in cross-border territories.

Experts:

Agnieszka Hanaka, Anna Rysyak – Maria Curie-Skłodowska University;

Sylwia Andruszczak, Teresa Wyłupek – University of Life Sciences in Lublin;

Andriy Senyuk – Department of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Lviv Regional Military Administration, Head of the Ecology Division;

Petro Nasadyuk – FAO expert; 

Ivanna Sholonkevych – Prykarpattia State Agricultural Research Station, Institute of Agriculture of the Carpathian Region, National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine.

16:15–17:00

Focus groups, moderators: Anna Kushchak, Davyd Kravchenko, Maria
Kovalco

Discussion of draft recommendations on a common methodology for controlling hogweed populations in various landscape areas of the PL-UA border region

17.00–19.00

Dinner

Module 2 – 17 October 2025

9:00–10:00

Registration. Morning coffee. Informal networking

10:00–10:15

10:15–10:30

10:30–10:45

Scientific presentations, moderator: Ihor Vuytsyk

Assessment of the diversity of secondary metabolites in Sosnowski’s hogweed and their impact on human health. Agnieszka Hanaka, Anna Rysyak – Maria Curie-Skłodowska University

Distribution and current methods of controlling Sosnowski’s hogweed
Hanna Korpita – S.Z. Gzhytskyi Lviv National University of Veterinary Medicine and Biotechnology

Assessment of genetic diversity in Sosnowski’s hogweed populations – research methodology

Edita Pachos-Grzenda, Sylwia Sowa – University of Life Sciences in Lublin

10:45–11:45

First panel discussion – moderator: Ihor Voynalovych

Remote sensing methods for mapping the habitats of Sosnowski’s hogweed – the basis for ZeroHeracleum.

Experts: 

Szymon Chmielewski, Andrzej Bochniak – University of Life Sciences in Lublin;

Andriy Petryshyn – advisor on socially oriented advisory services for land resource management; 

–Volodymyr Vryga – expert adviser, Lviv Agrarian Chamber.

11:45–13:00

11:45–12:30

12:30–13:00

Second panel discussion – moderator: Pavlo Muzyka

Preventive measures against hogweed for students, schoolchildren and adults.

Experts: 

Adam Gavryliuk – University of Life Sciences in Lublin;

Oksana Ovchinnikova, Bohdan Hulko, Volodymyr Balkovskyi – S.Z. Hrytsko Lviv National University of Veterinary Medicine and Biotechnology.

13:00–13:45

Lunch

13:45–16:45

Third panel discussion – moderator: Ihor Vuytsyk

Discussion and adoption of draft recommendations on a common methodology for controlling hogweed populations in various landscape areas of the PL-UA border region

16:45–17:45

Focus groups – moderators: Anna Kushchak, David Kravchenko, Maria
Kovalco

How Ukrainian and Polish communities, businesses, civil society organisations, scientific and educational institutions, and advisory services can join environmental initiatives to preserve biodiversity and find sustainable solutions in the fight against hogweed.