In November 2024, during the ESP Conference in Wageningen, the idea for an ESP summer school was born. The summer school is named after ESP founder and long term chair Rudolf de Groot.
The first, very successful edition was organised in 2025 in Aveiro, Portugal.
Rudolf de Groot ESP Summer School 2025
1-5 September 2025 | University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
The first edition of the Rudolf de Groot ESP Summer School 2025, aims to 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.
