Early Registration Open for ICUP 2025

Registration is now open for the 11th International Conference on Urban Pests (ICUP), held June 29 - July 2, 2025 in Lund, Sweden. Interested attendees are encouraged to take advantage of the super early bird registration discount of 25% off if booked before Jan. 15.

If this super early discount is missed, there is still a discount available for bookings made by March 31. Registrations beginning on April 1 are at the full price. Bona-fide students are especially welcome at the conference, and are eligible for a 50% reduction in the registration fee.

Included within the registration fee is a range of items including the opening reception, conference breaks, lunches and the conference dinner. These events are always popular networking opportunities, making them a most rewarding part of ICUP events. The organizing committee is keen to include as many as possible within the registration fee.

Registration is now open via the ICUP 2025 website at www.icup.org.uk/icup-2025.

The 11th ICUP conference will take place at AF-Borgen, the Academic Society (Akademiska Föreningen) building in the centre of the medieval city of Lund in southern Sweden. The recommended way to get to Lund is via train from Copenhagen airport and once there, the city boasts a range of hotels to meet all budgets.

The Organizing Committee aims to highlight urban areas as environments where biodiversity is perceived as both an opportunity and a threat. In these areas, citizens are in close contact with other species, so quickly develop technologies that shape the relationship between humans and these other species. To reflect this, ICUP 2025 has the general theme of ‘Smart and Sustainable Management of Urban Animals.’

Jette Knudsen, chair of the ICUP 2025 Organizing Committee said, “We are now working hard to review and process all the abstracts and plan to have an outline program early in the new year”

Previous ICUP conferences have been held in Cambridge, England (1993), Edinburgh, Scotland (1996) Prague, Czech Republic (1999), Charleston, USA (2002), Singapore (2005) Budapest, Hungary (2008), Ouro Preto, Brazil (2011), Zurich, Switzerland (2014) Birmingham, UK (2017) and Barcelona, Spain (2022).