A joint report by myself and Katya Baranova on an experiment created to model and predict invasive expansion patterns of giant hogweed in a central European context. It used a life-cycle matrix model combined with mechanistic local and corridor dispersal and a stochastic long-distance dispersal in a cellular automation across eight 1km² study areas set up with real-world landscape configurations of suitable habitats and corridors. These simulations were then compared with monitoring data collected from 2002 to 2009 to determine the simulation modelling efficiency.