Location, dates announced for 11th ICUP conference in 2025

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The dates and location for the next International Conference on Urban Pests (ICUP), which takes place every three years, have been announced by the organizers.

The conference will be from June 29 to July 2, 2025, at AF-Borgen, the the Academic Society (Akademiska Föreningen) building in Lund, a city in southern Sweden.

The 2025 organizing tram is chaired by Jette Knudsen from Nattaro Labs, which is based in Lund.

Jette Knudsen is the chairman of the ICUP 2025 organizing committee.

“After the close of ICUP 2022 in Barcelona, we assembled our 2025 Organising Committee, which includes members from most Nordic countries. We are already working hard to prepare another stimulating and productive ICUP event,” Knudsen said in the news release.

As at previous ICUP conferences, the 2025 program will address the science and management of a wide variety of urban pests and vectors, including those of hygiene, structural and medical importance. Particular focus will be on pests that have an increasing impact as a result of our changing world. The impact of regulatory and stewardship challenges will also be included.

In addition to the main conference sessions, there will be breakout sessions and workshops, as well as “the ever-popular conference dinner. Equally important are the informal networking time”

The venue for ICUP 2025 is AF-Borgen in Lund, Sweden. PHOTO: ICUP

Details regarding delegate registration and how to offer a paper for consideration by the organizing committee will be announced in the near future when the ICUP 2025 website goes live.

All presentations from previous conferences can be found on the central ICUP website at www.icup.org.uk.

The previous conferences have taken place in Cambridge, England (1993); Edinburgh, Scotland (1996); Prague, Czech Republic (1999); Charleston, S.C., USA (2002); Singapore (2005); Budapest, Hungary (2008); Ouro Preto, Brazil (2011); Zurich, Switzerland (2014); Birmingham, England (2017); and Barcelona, Spain (2022).