Author Archives: Henk Goutier

The next 17th EuroSpeleo Forum – CapoVolta will be held in the north of Italy in Volta Mantovana in the Mantua Region (about 40km south-west of Verona). The meeting is organised by the APS Gruppo Lemuri and supported by the … Continued

The EuroSpeleo Projcts (ESP) Fund supports internationally oriented speleological projects that are open to the participation of speleologists from all FSE members and lead to a multinational and multidisciplinary cooperation. The deadline for sending in applications for the second half … Continued

It is with great pleasure that the European Speleological Federation (FSE) publishes the next EuroSpeleo Newsletter of December 2024. This Newsletter will be exclusively available in electronic form and it will be distributed through the FSE mailing lists, website, Facebook … Continued

It is with great pleasure that the FSE announces this year’s call for cave and karst protection projects to receive the “EuroSpeleo Protection Label” (ESPL) from the European Cave Protection Commission of the FSE (ECPC). Since its origin in 1990, … Continued

We are a team of researchers (and cavers) working at the University of Neuchâtel in Switzerland, and we are looking for cave survey data to building a statistical database. With this database, we hope, for example, to infer plausible karst … Continued

Impressions of the very succesfull 16th EuroSpeleo Forum “Syphonia 2024” in Caselle in Pittari, Salerno, Italy. The event was held from 31st october to 3rd november 2024. With about 1.500 particpants from nearly 15 different countries the event was a … Continued

The program for Syphonia 2024 being the 16th EuroSpeleo Forum and the 10th European Expedition Symposium in now available online and downloadable as a Pdf at: https://www.tetide.org/syphonia2024/programma-2/ The program starts on Thursday 31st October with the International Conference “Digital Speleology”. … Continued

The FSE was present with its stand and exhibition at the biennial Caving Days event in Ferrières, Belgium on the 21/22 September. This event is organised by the Flemish Federation of Cavers (VVS), the Belgian Union Of Speleology (UBS) from … Continued

For the 2024 World Cleanup Day, a day that is designated by the UN*1, the ECPC is publishing a small report about caves and karst cleaning activities in the countries and Regions of some ECPC and FSE members. With this … Continued

It is with great pleasure that the European Speleological Federation (FSE) publishes the next EuroSpeleo Newsletter of August 2024. This Newsletter will be exclusively available in electronic form and it will be distributed through the FSE mailing lists, website, Facebook … Continued

The European Cave Protection Commission (ECPC) of the European Speleological Federation (FSE), is pleased to announce that following the evaluation of the applications received, the EuroSpeleo Protection Label 2024 has been attributed to the Comité départemental de spéléologie de l’Aude from France … Continued

Tetide Aps Association and the Italian Speleological Society are warming up the engines to welcome cavers and researchers from all over Italy and Europe to “Syphonia 2024”, the International Meeting of Speleology that this year will take place from October … Continued