Database of EU research and innovation projects on nature-based solutions
Introduction to the database
The development and update of this database is part of NetworkNature’s facilitation of the development of the European roadmap to 2030 for R&I on NBS.
This database gathers European R&I projects on NBS from several major European research and innovation or implementation programmes: BiodivERsA, Horizon 2020, Seventh framework programme (FP7), Interreg and LIFE (EU’s funding instrument for the environment and climate action) over the years 2011–2021. Their project databases were screened using two successive keyword searches (‘biodiversity’ and then ‘services and approaches’) on the title and abstract of each project, and results were screened manually to retain NBS-relevant projects using criteria derived from the European Commission’s definition of NBS (i.e., biodiversity benefits, social and economic benefits and/or Increased resilience, and response to a societal challenge).
Beginning with more than 60.000 projects, the resulting database of NBS projects is composed of 300 projects with 100 projects from H2020 and FP7, 35 NBS projects from BiodivERsA, 86 NBS projects from Interreg and 79 NBS projects from LIFE.
The database was subsequently used to perform a mapping of EU R&I projects on NBS, in terms of types of NBS, societal challenges addressed, environments, approaches studied. This mapping allowed setting the scene of what R&I has been supported so far at European level on NBS. View the key results from analysing this database of EU R&I projects on NBS.
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Acronym:
Steps for LIFE
Start/end date:
1 Jan 2022 to 31 Dec 2026
Funding programme:
LIFE
Description: The general objective of the Steps for LIFE project is to transform cultural and tourism infrastructures (LDNMW) into multifunctional green infrastructures (GIs), integrating conservation and improvement of biodiversity, optimising ecological connectivity, providing ecosystem...
Acronym:
OPERAS
Start/end date:
1 Dec 2012 to 30 Nov 2016
Funding programme:
FP7
Description: Human use and exploitation of the biosphere is increasing at such a pace and scale that the sustainability of major ecosystems is threatened, and may not be able to continue to function in ways that are vital to the existence of humanity. Re-framing environmental resource use...
Acronym:
PhytoSUDOE
Start/end date:
1 Jul 2016 to 30 Oct 2018
Funding programme:
Interreg
Description: PhytoSUDOE highlights the environmental, economic and social benefices during and after the phyto-management and promotes the use of this techniques among managers and owners of fields. For this purpose, it builds up a network of contaminated places to use phyto-management ,...
Acronym:
AMBER
Start/end date:
1 Jun 2016 to 30 Sep 2020
Funding programme:
H2020
Description: Rivers rank among some of the most threatened ecosystems in the world, and are the focus of costly restoration programmes that cost billions to taxpayers. Much of Europe depends on water from rivers for drinking, food production, and the generation of hydropower, which is...
Acronym:
Joint nature protection
Start/end date:
13 Sep 2019 to 13 Sep 2021
Funding programme:
Interreg
Description: - Procurement of multifunctional equipment for nature protection in Sungurlare and Süloğlu.
- Conservation activities for nature protection in Sungurlare Municipality - improvenet of the conservation status of natural habitat “91M0 Pannonian-Balkanic turkey oak –sessile oak...
Acronym:
Forestry impact and water management in Torne International River Basin
Start/end date:
1 Jan 2011 to 31 Dec 2013
Funding programme:
Interreg
Description: The goal is a concrete and detailed action plan that can be used by regional authorities, municipalities, associations of fish and fisheries at the restoration of streams affected by forestry. The action plan should be anchored among local and regional actors along the Torne...
Acronym:
LIFE BELINI
Start/end date:
1 Oct 2016 to 31 Dec 2026
Funding programme:
LIFE
Description: The Belini IP will be implemented within the Scheldt International River Basin District (IRBD). The population density of this IRBD is among the highest in Europe (over 350 inhabitants/km²), causing significant pressures on the water system (urban wastewater, hydro-morphological...
Acronym:
RBMP-DUERO
Start/end date:
1 Jan 2018 to 31 Dec 2026
Funding programme:
LIFE
Description: The Duero river basin is an international basin shared by Spain and Portugal. It is located mainly within a Mediterranean climatic area, though water availability and desertification are not significant problems when compared with other Spanish catchments. However, the basin is...
Acronym:
DRYvER
Start/end date:
1 Sep 2020 to 31 Aug 2024
Funding programme:
H2020
Description: River networks are among Earth’s most threatened hot-spots of biodiversity and provide key ecosystem services (e.g. supply drinking water and food, climate regulation) essential to sustaining human well-being. Climate change and increased human water use are causing more rivers...
Acronym:
SABER CULTURAL
Start/end date:
1 Jan 2018 to 31 Dec 2020
Funding programme:
H2020
Description: Freshwater ecosystems are essential to people´s economic, cultural and social wellbeing, yet are still one of the most seriously threatened ecosystems on the planet. This conflict is reflected in political regulations that ask to halt the loss of, restore and safeguard...
Acronym:
WaterCoG
Start/end date:
1 Jan 2016 to 31 Oct 2021
Funding programme:
Interreg
Description: The natural environment is dependent on water to provide society with many essential benefits or “ecosystem services” (e.g. drinking water, biodiversity, food production, recreation, carbon sequestration). A number of EU directives aim to protect and improve the delivery of...
Acronym:
IDES
Start/end date:
1 Jul 2020 to 31 Dec 2022
Funding programme:
Interreg
Description: Nutrient loads transported by the Danube affect its ecological status and have to be reduced, active floodplains can have a significant retention potential. But floodplains are subject to multiple human uses which strongly affect water quality of rivers. So far, these uses were...
Acronym:
LakeAdmin
Start/end date:
1 Jan 2012 to 31 Dec 2014
Funding programme:
Interreg
Description: The economic values of clean and safe water are well established. Lakes, ponds and reservoirs can provide water for drinking, irrigation, recreation, fish, natural and cultural values and other ecosystem services. Domestic and national tourism in lake districts are often of high...
Acronym:
SEDECO
Start/end date:
1 Apr 2016 to 31 Dec 2022
Funding programme:
Interreg
Description: The river Thaya forms the border between Austria and the Czech Republic and both countries profit from its usage (e.g. energy production, recreation, fishery). This has negative effects on the river system, like the canalisation and the separation of flood areas. This leads to a...
Acronym:
MOVE-NbS
Start/end date:
1 Oct 2021 to 30 Sep 2024
Funding programme:
H2020
Description: Since 2014, Europe allocated €5.5 billion in sustainable watershed management, including Nature-Based Solutions (NbS) of green-blue infrastructure to combat aquatic ecosystem decline and climate change impacts (e.g. flooding, urban heat). Reliable integrated Planning Support...
Acronym:
OSCAR
Start/end date:
30 Sep 2016 to 29 Sep 2019
Funding programme:
BiodivERsA
Description: Woody riparian buffer strips along rivers (referred to as woody buffers in the following) offer multiple ecosystem services and increase biodiversity. Their beneficial effects potentially add up in downstream direction. Woody buffers may provide migration corridors and connect...
Acronym:
LIFE-IP Waters of Life
Start/end date:
1 Nov 2019 to 31 Mar 2028
Funding programme:
LIFE
Description: The loss of high-status waters has been identified as an important issue within Irelandand across Europe. The protection and restoration of these waters is one of the underpinning principles of the Water Framework Directive (WFD). This is recognised, with appropriate commitments...
Acronym:
IP LIFE PL Pilica Basin CTRL
Start/end date:
1 Jan 2021 to 31 Dec 2030
Funding programme:
LIFE
Description: The Vistula river basin covers eastern Poland and accounts for almost 60% (about 183 000 km2) of the countrys surface area. It covers the territory of 11 voivodeships (administrative divisions similar to provinces). This project concerns the basins Pilica river catchment, an...
Acronym:
DTP1-189-2.2 - LENA
Start/end date:
1 Jan 2017 to 30 Jun 2019
Funding programme:
Interreg
Description: LENAs main objective is to strengthen joint and integrated approaches and policies for the conservation and sustainable use of protected areas, in particular Natura 2000 sites, along the Danube and its tributaries, while creating new income opportunities in the nature-based...
Acronym:
ROHU TURRIVER
Start/end date:
1 May 2018 to 31 Dec 2020
Funding programme:
Interreg
Description: The project "Joint Conservation Management and Development of Information Infrastructure of Protected Areas along the Romanian and Hungarian Course of Tur River" proposed by the legal administrators of protected areas situated along the lower course of the Tur River in Hungary...
Acronym:
NATUR/DANUBEPARKS
Start/end date:
1 Jan 2018 to 30 Apr 2019
Funding programme:
Interreg
Description: The common challenge of the Danube area we are jointly tackling in our project is maintaining and promoting of natural and cultural heritage, the protection of biodiversity, environmental awareness raising, assuring the conditions for common water and risk management and...
Acronym:
Eau Concert 2
Start/end date:
4 Sep 2017 to 31 Dec 2020
Funding programme:
Interreg
Description: The objective of Eau Concert 2 project is to restore and protect cross-border aquatic ecosystems, and to enforce ecosystemic systems, that’s means services offered by natural environment to humans (foods, sanitarian, economical). A particular attention will be bringing on the...
Acronym:
EFIMES
Start/end date:
6 Sep 2018 to 5 Sep 2021
Funding programme:
Interreg
Description: Тhe common challenge of the programme area that are jointly tackled in the project: The cross border region of Bulgaria and Romania is a dynamically developing Danube region with variety of activities such as Industrial, transport-logistic, agricultural, tourism, cultural and...
Acronym:
Co-Adapt
Start/end date:
1 Feb 2019 to 30 Sep 2022
Funding programme:
Interreg
Description: To develop, test and disseminate approaches to the co-creation of nature based and natural process solutions to improve adaptive capacity of the 2Seas region to the water related effects of climate change.
The project will develop more open and transparent governance for...
Acronym:
RECONECT
Start/end date:
1 Sep 2018 to 31 Aug 2024
Funding programme:
H2020
Description: RECONECT aims to contribute to European reference framework on Nature Based Solutions (NbS) by demonstrating, referencing and upscaling large scale NbS and by stimulating a new culture for 'land use planning' that links the reduction of risks with local and regional development...
Acronym:
goMURra
Start/end date:
1 Jun 2018 to 31 May 2021
Funding programme:
Interreg
Description: The project is the continuation of many years of cooperation and joint activities of the official institutions of Slovenia and Austria in the field of water management, which operate under the bilateral commission for boundary waters. With the implementation of the project the...
Acronym:
LIFE IP IRIS AUSTRIA
Start/end date:
1 Dec 2018 to 31 Dec 2027
Funding programme:
LIFE
Description: The Water Framework Directive and the Floods Directive determine the future of rivers in Austria. Their implementation has led to 2 separate national programmes of measures. These are laid down in the RBMP (River Basin Management Plan) and the FRMP (Flood Risk Management Plan)...
Acronym:
PONDERFUL
Start/end date:
1 Dec 2020 to 30 Nov 2024
Funding programme:
H2020
Description: Ponds and “pondscapes” (networks of ponds) are crucial for biodiversity conservation and their multiple societally beneficial ecosystem services (ES) provide the means to play a crucial role in mitigating and adapting to climate change. However, ponds are largely neglected in...
Acronym:
OPERANDUM
Start/end date:
1 Jul 2018 to 30 Jun 2022
Funding programme:
H2020
Description: Severe hydro-meteorological phenomena are having a high impact in European territories and are of global concern. The science behind these phenomena is complex and advancement in knowledge proceeds with progress in data acquisition and forecasting useful for real-scenario...
Acronym:
LIFE GoodWater IP
Start/end date:
1 Jan 2020 to 31 Dec 2027
Funding programme:
LIFE
Description: The enhanced delivery of all four River Basin Management Plans (RBMPs) in Latvia is necessary to achieve the EU environmental objectives of the Water Framework Directive (2000/60/EC), which requires achievement of good ecological and chemical status or good ecological potential...
Acronym:
Dr. FOREST
Start/end date:
1 Feb 2020 to 31 Jan 2023
Funding programme:
BiodivERsA
Description: Dr. FOREST - Diversity of FORESTs affecting human health
Forest ecosystems are an important reservoir for biodiversity in human-dominated landscapes within Central Europe, and deliver many ecosystem services. They are also a popular location for recreational activities,...
Acronym:
Centralparks
Start/end date:
1 Apr 2019 to 31 Mar 2022
Funding programme:
Interreg
Description: The Carpathians belong to the most important European eco-regions. Biodiversity loss and increasing pressures threaten its outstanding natural values. Traditional approaches to resource management and nature conservation are no longer sufficient to guarantee long-lasting...
Acronym:
ECOPOTENTIAL
Start/end date:
1 Jun 2015 to 31 Oct 2019
Funding programme:
H2020
Description: Terrestrial and marine ecosystems provide essential services to human societies. Anthropogenic pressures, however, cause serious threat to ecosystems, leading to habitat degradation, increased risk of collapse and loss of ecosystem services. Knowledge-based conservation,...
Acronym:
FUNPOTENTIAL
Start/end date:
1 Apr 2021 to 31 Mar 2024
Funding programme:
BiodivERsA
Description: Forests are impacted by climate change both directly and indirectly via increased natural disturbances such as wind, wildfire and insect outbreaks, with negative effects on wood production and the economy. Nature-based solutions (NbS) promise great potential to counter negative...
Acronym:
BiodivRestore
Start/end date:
1 Oct 2020 to 30 Sep 2025
Funding programme:
H2020
Description: Many of the European and world's ecosystems undergo degradation of terrestrial, aquatic and transitional ecosystems with nMany of the European and world's ecosystems undergo degradation of terrestrial, aquatic and transitional ecosystems with negative impacts on biological...
Acronym:
LIFE+ GARAJONAY VIVE
Start/end date:
1 Sep 2014 to 31 Dec 2018
Funding programme:
LIFE
Description: The LIFE+ GARAJONAY VIVE achieved its objectives of supporting the natural regeneration of laurel forest habitats and the recovery of populations of threatened species damaged by the fire of 2012 on the Spanish island of La Gomera, in the Canary Islands, as well as reducing the...
Acronym:
LIFE RedBosques_Clima
Start/end date:
20 Jun 2018 to 31 Aug 2025
Funding programme:
LIFE
Description: The overall objective of the LIFE RedBosques_Clima project is to achieve a greater capacity for adaptation to climate change in forests, promoting forestry with conservation objectives (promoting maturity, increasing heterogeneity and diversity) under the umbrella of ecosystem-...
Acronym:
MAIL
Start/end date:
1 Jan 2019 to 31 Dec 2021
Funding programme:
H2020
Description: Marginal Lands (MLs) could offer suitable carbon sinks by afforestation/reforestation projects without being competitive to food production, conforming to EU/Global policies. The main objective of MAIL is to trigger utilization of MLs as Carbon Sinks by activities related to...
Acronym:
MixForChange
Start/end date:
1 Jan 2021 to 31 Dec 2024
Funding programme:
BiodivERsA
Description: Forest landscape restoration and afforestation have recently received much international attention as a crucial opportunity for mitigating climate change (CC). Therefore, it features prominently in many political initiatives such as the EU Green Deal and the Bonn Challenge. Yet...
Acronym:
RESTORE
Start/end date:
1 Apr 2021 to 31 Mar 2024
Funding programme:
BiodivERsA
Description: Climate projections indicate higher precipitation variability along this century with more frequent drought extremes, which would have strong influence on forest biodiversity due to impacts on ecosystem functioning, tree ecophysiology and microbial communities. Forest...
Acronym:
CLIMPRO
Start/end date:
1 Nov 2020 to 31 Oct 2022
Funding programme:
H2020
Description: The overall objective of this study is to quantify how adaptive management can affect the provision of ecosystem services,
focusing on wood production, river runoff and climate change mitigation. The study will enhance our understanding of how
adaptive management can contribute...
Acronym:
FirEUrisk
Start/end date:
1 Apr 2021 to 31 Mar 2025
Funding programme:
H2020
Description: FIREURISK will develop, evaluate and disseminate a science-based integrated strategy to: 1) expand current wildland fire risk assessment systems, including critical factors of risk previously not covered; 2) produce effective measures to reduce current fire risk conditions, and...
Acronym:
WOODNET
Start/end date:
30 Sep 2016 to 29 Sep 2019
Funding programme:
BiodivERsA
Description: WOODNET aims at providing innovative spatially-explicit tools for connectivity analysis along a range of landscapes from forest and shrubland to agricultural landscapes where woody vegetation elements play a key role for conservation or service delivery. Novel satellite images...
Acronym:
ONEforest
Start/end date:
1 Jun 2021 to 31 May 2024
Funding programme:
H2020
Description: Forest ecosystems cover 42 % of the European Union’s total land area and strong efforts have been made to facilitate an increase of multiple forest ecosystem services to form robust forest stands. However, all ecosystems recently have been hit by rapidly changing climatic...
Acronym:
REINFORCE
Start/end date:
14 Jun 2021 to 6 Nov 2023
Funding programme:
H2020
Description: Forests are key components of modern landscapes, providing essential ecosystem services to humans and sustaining biodiversity. As they mitigate global warming, forest ecosystems are essential elements for meeting the objectives of the Paris Climate Agreement and an increase of...
Acronym:
RESONATE
Start/end date:
1 Apr 2021 to 31 Mar 2025
Funding programme:
H2020
Description: Climate change poses a major challenge for European forests, demonstrated by recent extreme events and forest disturbances of unprecedented intensity. As climate change continues, adverse impacts on the stability and production capacity of European forests could undermine the...
Acronym:
LIFE MycoRestore
Start/end date:
8 Jul 2018 to 30 Jun 2023
Funding programme:
LIFE
Description: LIFE MycoRestore seeks to utilise diverse mycological resources and forest management practices to contribute to the biological resilience of Mediterranean forests. It also aims at generating new income sources and ensuring the stability of forest ecosystem services while...
Acronym:
B4EST
Start/end date:
1 May 2018 to 30 Apr 2022
Funding programme:
H2020
Description: The goal of B4EST is to increase forest survival, health, resilience and productivity under climate change and natural disturbances, while maintaining genetic diversity and key ecological functions, and fostering a competitive EU bio-based economy.
B4EST will provide forest...
Acronym:
LIFE MixForChange
Start/end date:
4 Jul 2018 to 30 Jun 2022
Funding programme:
LIFE
Description: The main aim of the project is to contribute to the adaptation to climate change of European mixed sub-humid Mediterranean forests by increasing their resilience, ensuring their conservation and enhancing their productive, environmental and social functions. In particular, the...
Acronym:
LIFE FORECCAsT
Start/end date:
5 Jul 2018 to 1 Jul 2020
Funding programme:
LIFE
Description: The objective of the LIFE FORECCAsT project was to provide forest owners and managers of Parc Naturel Régional du Haut Languedoc with the means to build their own management strategy, taking climate change scenarios into consideration, in order to protect territorial forest...
Acronym:
LIFE SORIA FORESTADAPT
Start/end date:
6 Jul 2018 to 31 Jan 2024
Funding programme:
LIFE
Description: The LIFE SORIA FORESTADAPT project aims to increase the resilience of southern European forests to climate change, including through adaptation measures in public and private forest management plans. A Technical Reference for Forest Management with climate change adaptation...
Acronym:
LIFE CLIMATE FOREST
Start/end date:
7 Jul 2018 to 31 Aug 2027
Funding programme:
LIFE
Description: The main objective of LIFE CLIMATE FOREST is to demonstrate a tree-oriented management approach for improving climate resilience of forest ecosystems on sandy soils, which are characteristic of Dutch forests. This improved resilience will reduce greenhouse gas emissions and...
Acronym:
ROBIN
Start/end date:
1 Nov 2011 to 31 Oct 2015
Funding programme:
FP7
Description: To realise the full potential of tropical forests in climate change mitigation (CCM) & the provision of other ecosystem services in the face of ongoing global change we must improve our understanding of the relationships between biodiversity (BD) and the socio-ecological...
Acronym:
BASch
Start/end date:
1 Jun 2017 to 31 May 2020
Funding programme:
Interreg
Description: There are a number of divergent objectives between the requirements of forest and nature conservation law, which make the implementation of natural and nature protection goals more difficult. To this end, conflict resolution strategies are being developed with the active...
Acronym:
Skill-For.Action
Start/end date:
1 Jan 2021 to 31 Dec 2024
Funding programme:
H2020
Description: Global environmental and climate changes compromise forest resources in different ways, intensities and at various levels. Drought related losses in growth performance, the increase in intensity and frequency of wild fires and storms, and of biological risks are just a few of...
Acronym:
LIFE PASTORALP
Start/end date:
23 Jun 2018 to 30 Mar 2022
Funding programme:
LIFE
Description: Natural pastures result from the combined influence of local environmental characteristics (mainly climate and soil properties) and centuries of managed livestock grazing. Properly managed pastoral farming is recognised as making a significant contribution to ecosystem carbon...
Acronym:
RESWARE
Start/end date:
3 Jan 2011 to 2 Jan 2012
Funding programme:
Interreg
Description: The objective of the project is the improvement of cross- border sustainable development through finding solutions for the rehabilitation of natural environment in Rosiori – Pocsaj cross-border area, protecting biodiversity on the Ier Valley from Rosiori to Pocsaj, lowering the...
Acronym:
PRINCESS
Start/end date:
1 Apr 2021 to 31 Mar 2024
Funding programme:
BiodivERsA
Description: PRINCESS will investigate the potential of alternative land uses on rewetted peatlands to tackle the major environmental challenges of Europe: greenhouse gas emissions, nitrogen pollution and biodiversity loss. All relevant EU policy objectives include rewetting drained...
Acronym:
LIFE IP PAF-WILD ATLANTIC NATURE
Start/end date:
1 Jan 2020 to 31 Dec 2029
Funding programme:
LIFE
Description: The project is taking place in the west and north-west of Ireland, focussing on 24 Natura 2000 sites (SACs) and will target the Annex I Habitats Directive habitat type Blanket bog. The overall status of blanket bog has been assessed as Unfavourable-Bad in both the 2007 and 2013...
Acronym:
REPEAT
Start/end date:
31 Dec 2016 to 30 Dec 2019
Funding programme:
BiodivERsA
Description: (Research question) Belowground biodiversity is formed by fungi, bacteria, archaea, animals and plants that altogether affect soil functioning, particularly by controlling rates of production and decomposition of organic matter. Peat soils, being the most concentrated stores of...
Acronym:
LIFE CWR
Start/end date:
1 Aug 2013 to 31 Oct 2018
Funding programme:
LIFE
Description: The main objectives of the project are to:
* Recover and restore a network of wetlands in the coastal area of Praia da Vitória;
* Provide a larger and more suitable sheltered area for migratory birds in the likely scenario of increased frequency of storms at these latitudes;
*...
Acronym:
LIFE VIMINE
Start/end date:
2 Sep 2013 to 1 Sep 2017
Funding programme:
LIFE
Description: The LIFE VIMINE project aimed to demonstrate an integrated approach to the conservation of interior Venice lagoon salt marshes based on prevention through routine, temporally-continuous and spatially-diffuse actions of monitoring and maintenance, as opposed to one-off protection...
Acronym:
LIFE ADAPTA BLUES
Start/end date:
17 Jun 2018 to 31 Oct 2024
Funding programme:
LIFE
Description: The general objective of the LIFE ADAPTA BLUES project is to demonstrate the potential of conserving and restoring European estuaries following an ecosystem-based approach to climate change adaptation, decreasing risks to coastal areas while contributing to climate change...
Acronym:
LIFE Ad'apto
Start/end date:
19 Jun 2018 to 31 Dec 2021
Funding programme:
LIFE
Description: The general objective of the LIFE Ad'Apto project is to demonstrate that ecosystems and natural coastal habitats should be included in flexible coastal management plans in order to improve climate change adaptation in coastal areas. More specifically, the project aims to:
*...
Acronym:
NordSalt
Start/end date:
1 Mar 2021 to 29 Feb 2024
Funding programme:
BiodivERsA
Description: The NordSalt project will assess the extent of and plant community biodiversity in Nordic Salt and coastal marshes and evaluate how these ecosystems provide climate and coastal protection related benefits to society (ecosystem services, ES or Nature’s Contributions to People,...
Acronym:
LIFE MIDMACC
Start/end date:
23 Jul 2018 to 30 Jun 2024
Funding programme:
LIFE
Description: The main objective of LIFE MIDMACC is to promote climate change adaptation in marginal mid-mountain areas of Spain, while improving socioeconomic development.The project has the following specific objectives:* develop and implement landscape adaptation in marginal mid-mountain...
Acronym:
RAMSAT
Start/end date:
1 Aug 2019 to 31 Jul 2023
Funding programme:
Interreg
Description: Mountains have always had a symbolic and metaphorical meaning, evoking an experience of spiritual elevation. In the latest years, they grow as a tourism destination because of their landscape which provides the opportunities to escape from the increasingly urbanized environments...
Acronym:
CANAPE
Start/end date:
1 Jun 2017 to 30 Jun 2022
Funding programme:
Interreg
Description: Healthy peatlands help regulate global climate by actively removing CO2 from the atmosphere, but damaged peatlands increase emissions. CANAPE combines North Sea Region (NSR) local authorities, NGOs, academic bodies to address challenges manage sustainable, integrated peat...
Acronym:
DESIRE
Start/end date:
1 Jan 2019 to 30 Jun 2021
Funding programme:
Interreg
Description: The DESIRE project improves the management of drained peatlands around the Neman river to reduce their nutrient and greenhouse gas emissions. The Neman river basin serves as a model area for EU-Russia/non-EU cooperation. DESIRE rehydrates selected drained peatlands and...
Acronym:
LIFE COTEAUX GASCONS
Start/end date:
1 Oct 2020 to 31 Dec 2025
Funding programme:
LIFE
Description: The main objective of LIFE COTEAUX GASCONS is to restore the ecological continuity of open agro-pastoral ecosystems in the Gascon hills area. This includes five Natura 2000 sites (in full or in part). The area covered by these ecosystems is estimated at more than 30 000 ha, of...
Acronym:
LIFE GRASSSERVICE
Start/end date:
1 Oct 2013 to 31 Dec 2017
Funding programme:
LIFE
Description: The LIFE GRASSSERVICE project restored 122 ha of grasslands and established 14 agreements with grassland owners for their long-term management, to maintain grassland biodiversity and to potentially provide biomass resources for biofuel or other alternative uses. The project...
Acronym:
Life+GP
Start/end date:
1 Aug 2014 to 31 Dec 2018
Funding programme:
LIFE
Description: The LIFE+GP project aims to restore the eco-hydrological situation in Groote Peel National Park. It is aiming to improve the quality of the regenerative raised bogs and the species that depend on them ? from an unfavourable to a favourable conservation status. As a result, the...
Acronym:
AddMire LIFE
Start/end date:
15 Jul 2019 to 30 Jun 2024
Funding programme:
LIFE
Description: AddMire LIFE will tackle the desiccation of degraded raised bogs still capable of natural regeneration and active raised bogs in Engbertsdijksvenen, within the context of a major raised bog restoration effort. It aims to improve the hydrology of the project area to favour...
Acronym:
Hydrology LIFE
Start/end date:
1 Aug 2017 to 31 Dec 2023
Funding programme:
LIFE
Description: The Hydrology LIFE project aims to:
* Improve the quality of peatland habitats listed in Annex I of the Habitats Directive, by restoring peatlands and small water (headwater) systems in 103 Natura 2000 network sites;
* Improve water quality and flood control by filling in...
Acronym:
LIFE MarshMeadows
Start/end date:
1 Oct 2021 to 30 Sep 2027
Funding programme:
LIFE
Description: The LIFE MarshMeadows aims to establish and demonstrate the intrinsic link between fully-functioning natural ecosystems and economic benefits for local communities. Two major complexes of wetlands will be restored by different means (1 460 hectares in total) in three Natura 2000...
Acronym:
LIFE IP Peatlands and People
Start/end date:
1 Oct 2020 to 30 Sep 2027
Funding programme:
LIFE
Description: Through the Irish Climate Action Plan 2019 (CAP19), the countrys Department of Communication, Climate Action and Environment (DCCAE) has outlined 183 actions targeted at tackling climate change. The goal is to achieve net zero carbon energy systems for Irish society and in the...
Acronym:
Care-Peat
Start/end date:
10 Jan 2019 to 9 Jun 2023
Funding programme:
Interreg
Description: Northern hemisphere peatland soils contain ~33% of global soil carbon, while accounting for only 3-5% of total land area. Many of these peatlands are degraded and emit rather than store carbon. Global annual GHG emissions from drained organic soils are ~1,600 MT CO2 eq., twice...
Acronym:
WetlandRestore
Start/end date:
15 Jun 2019 to 14 Dec 2021
Funding programme:
Interreg
Description: This project is first example of a cross-border cooperation in wetland restoration and integrated management of wetlands in this area that adress common nature protection challenges by developing and demonstrating innovative solutions for improving wetland conservation status...
Acronym:
EcoWET
Start/end date:
15 Jun 2017 to 14 Jun 2019
Funding programme:
Interreg
Description: The main common cross-border problems and challenges to be jointly addressed within the project is degradation of wetland ecosystems caused by varying human activities. Limited capacity to deal with the consequences of ecosystem degradation and low awareness about the value of...
Acronym:
DESIRE_seed money
Start/end date:
1 Sep 2017 to 31 Aug 2018
Funding programme:
Interreg
Description: Essential ecosystem services provided by the Baltic Sea, e.g. biodiversity, fisheries and tourism, are threatened by eutrophication caused by excess loads of nutrients to the sea. Discharge from rivers is one of the main pathways how nutrients get to the sea. One idea how to...
Acronym:
CANTOGETHER
Start/end date:
1 Jan 2012 to 31 Dec 2015
Funding programme:
FP7
Description: Agricultural production faces numerous challenges regarding competitiveness, conserving natural and non-renewable resources (water, soil, air, phosphorus, fossil fuels) and ecosystem services (pollination, natural pest control, soil fertility). Society also expects from...
Acronym:
ThinkNature
Start/end date:
1 Dec 2016 to 30 Nov 2019
Funding programme:
H2020
Description: Nature-based solutions (NbS) aim to help societies to address a variety of environmental, social and economic challenges in sustainable ways. They are actions which are inspired by and supported by nature. Some involve using and enhancing existing natural solutions to challenges...
Acronym:
NetworkNature
Start/end date:
1 Jun 2020 to 31 Jul 2023
Funding programme:
H2020
Description: NetworkNature will establish a European and global platform allowing all interested stakeholders to access and contribute cutting-edge, innovative knowledge and expertise on nature-based solutions (NbS). Our consortium represents all relevant stakeholder groups and has access to...
Acronym:
NBS2017
Start/end date:
1 Jun 2017 to 28 Feb 2018
Funding programme:
H2020
Description: The Estonian Presidency Conference “Nature-based Solutions: From Innovation to Common-use” (NBS2017) will involve original knowledge on Nature-based Solutions (NbS) policy, multi-functionality and effectiveness and management options. Presented research and applied results will...
Acronym:
VINOVERT
Start/end date:
1 Jul 2016 to 30 Jun 2019
Funding programme:
Interreg
Description: VINOVERT is an innovative and structuring project for the vine / wine sector in the SUDOE region. Ensuring the long-term competitiveness of companies is the main objective. For this it is necessary to take the turn of the new demand for wines considered more clean on the...
Acronym:
MIXED
Start/end date:
1 Oct 2020 to 30 Sep 2024
Funding programme:
H2020
Description: MIXED is a multi-actor project to drive the development of European Mixed Farming and Agroforestry Systems (MiFAS) that optimize efficiency and resource use, reduce GHG emissions, and show greater resilience to climate change by considering agronomic, technical, environmental,...
Acronym:
AE4EU
Start/end date:
1 Jan 2021 to 31 Dec 2023
Funding programme:
H2020
Description: The current situation in Europe clearly indicates that major changes are needed to develop sustainable agricultural and food systems. In this respect, agroecology is increasingly seen as an important pathway as it designs, develops and promotes the transition towards sustainable...
Acronym:
CERERE
Start/end date:
1 Nov 2016 to 31 Oct 2019
Funding programme:
H2020
Description: Organic/low input cereal food systems in the EU are emerging in answer to the sustainability crisis of the conventional agri-food sector. “Alternative” systems are based on local, decentralized approaches to production and processing, regard to quality and health, and short...
Acronym:
Feel Wood - Trans Agro Forest
Start/end date:
1 Oct 2016 to 30 Sep 2020
Funding programme:
Interreg
Description: Increasing problems related to intensive agriculture dominant in the cross-border territory are pointed out: soil erosion, groundwater pollution, loss of biodiversity, etc. It then results in an undeniable need to evolve towards new, more rational and sustainable practices. At...
Acronym:
HARVEST
Start/end date:
4 Mar 2019 to 28 May 2021
Funding programme:
H2020
Description: The HORIZON 2020 societal challenges highlight the need to innovate on agricultural practices that increase agroecosystem resilience and foster efficient use of available water and nutrients. This is particularly relevant for baby food production systems since there are...
Acronym:
FARMS 4 Biodiversity
Start/end date:
1 Dec 2018 to 31 Mar 2022
Funding programme:
BiodivERsA
Description: Farming practices in sub-Saharan Africa are often linked with high rates of soil erosion, decreasing soil quality, and increasing use of agrochemicals that have negative impacts on humans and the environment. Concomitantly, land use change threatens regional biodiversity and...
Acronym:
MICS
Start/end date:
1 Jan 2019 to 31 Dec 2021
Funding programme:
H2020
Description: THE MICS project brings together a transdisciplinary team to address a scientific and policy priority area where citizen science has the potential to promote a paradigm shift. Nature-based solutions (NBSs) are actions to protect, sustainably manage and restore natural or...
Acronym:
PLANTSVITA
Start/end date:
1 May 2018 to 30 Apr 2020
Funding programme:
Interreg
Description: Farmlands are exposed to dangerous xenobiotics because of the regular use of distinct pesticides. Even if present in small concentrations, they are dangerous as all have the tendency of progressive accumulation in the food chain.
Two approaches are frequently used worldwide to...
Acronym:
ECOVINEGOALS
Start/end date:
1 Mar 2020 to 31 Aug 2022
Funding programme:
Interreg
Description: In ADRION area the intensive management of viticulture can lead to negative effects on soil, water and air quality, biodiversity and ecosystem services and cause significant changes of fragile habitats and traditional landscapes. ECOVINEGOALS tackles the challenge of viticulture...
Acronym:
ATTER
Start/end date:
1 May 2021 to 30 Apr 2025
Funding programme:
H2020
Description: The ecological and social unsustainability of our food systems is widely acknowledged by scientists, citizens and governments around the world. To address the challenge of sustainable transitions, agroecology is also increasingly recognised as a promising model and the...
Acronym:
IWMPRAISE
Start/end date:
1 Jun 2017 to 31 May 2022
Funding programme:
H2020
Description: IWMPRAISE aims to support the implementation of Integrated Weed Management (IWM). IWMPRAISE will demonstrate that adoption of IWM supports more sustainable cropping systems both agronomically and environmentally, which are resilient to external impacts without jeopardising...
Acronym:
SECBIVIT
Start/end date:
1 Jan 2019 to 31 Mar 2022
Funding programme:
BiodivERsA
Description: In agroecosystems, multiple ecosystem services (ES) such as soil fertility, pest regulation, biodiversity conservation, and crop production need to be balanced to achieve sustainable development goals and Aichi biodiversity targets. The main global drivers of biodiversity and ES...
Acronym:
AGRI-ECO SERVICES
Start/end date:
1 Oct 2012 to 30 Sep 2014
Funding programme:
FP7
Description: 'Among the ecosystem services provided by European agriculture, the conservation of biodiversity and agricultural landscapes are predominant. High Nature Value (HNV) farmland located in less favoured areas play a central role in the conservation of habitats and species. However...
Acronym:
HNV-Link
Start/end date:
1 Apr 2016 to 31 Mar 2019
Funding programme:
H2020
Description: High nature value (HNV) farmland designates “those areas in Europe where agriculture is a major land use and where that agriculture supports, or is associated with, either a high species and habitat diversity or the presence of species of European conservation concern, or both...
Acronym:
LIFE PALU QdP
Start/end date:
1 Sep 2018 to 28 Feb 2023
Funding programme:
LIFE
Description: The main objective of the LIFE PALU QdP project is to conserve characteristic habitats and species of the 'Palù del Quartier del Piave' Natura 2000 network site in the Veneto region of Italy, by reintroducing sustainable agroforestry and traditional meadow management practices....
Acronym:
EcoFruit
Start/end date:
1 Apr 2015 to 31 Mar 2018
Funding programme:
BiodivERsA
Description: Animal communities provide important ecosystem services (ES). Nowhere is their service more important than in fruit production, where certain species are required for pollination, and others function as biocontrol agents against various pest species attacking flowers, leaves or...
Acronym:
SOILMAN
Start/end date:
31 Dec 2016 to 30 Dec 2019
Funding programme:
BiodivERsA
Description: Soil biota diversity is ensuring primary production in terrestrial ecosystems and agricultural productivity. Water and nutrient cycling, soil formation and aggregation, decomposition and carbon sequestration as well as control of pest organisms are important functions in soil...
Acronym:
SoildiverAgro
Start/end date:
1 Jun 2019 to 31 May 2024
Funding programme:
H2020
Description: with the long-term view of fostering synergies between crop production, biodiversity and the delivery of ecosystem services of local, regional and global relevance, the main objective of soildiveragro is the adoption of new management practices and cropping systems that enhance...
Acronym:
FABulous Farmers
Start/end date:
10 Jan 2019 to 9 Jul 2023
Funding programme:
Interreg
Description: The agricultural sector, the basis for the agro-food sector in NWE, is today heavily dependent on external inputs (fertilizers, pesticides, etc.) and creates a number of negative effects on the quality of natural resources (soil, water, biodiversity). Functional Agrobiodiversity...
Acronym:
LIFE VinEcoS
Start/end date:
25 Jun 2018 to 31 Dec 2020
Funding programme:
LIFE
Description: The main objective of the LIFE VinEcoS project is to optimise ecosystem services in vineyards by testing climate-adapted methods in viniculture. In the first part of the project, relevant methods will be implemented on demonstration areas of the Kloster Pforta vineyard in the...
Acronym:
NAPERDIV
Start/end date:
1 Feb 2021 to 31 Jan 2023
Funding programme:
BiodivERsA
Description: The impact of intense annual crop production on natural resources under the threat of climate change has resulted in a global magnification of environmental degradation and biodiversity loss. A concept for mitigating such consequences is the development of perennial grain...
Acronym:
LIFE TERRACESCAPE
Start/end date:
11 Jul 2018 to 31 Oct 2022
Funding programme:
LIFE
Description: The LIFE TERRACESCAPE project aims to demonstrate, on the Aegean island of Andros, the use of drystone terraces as green infrastructures resilient to climate change impacts. The project will promote climatic adaptation by mobilising scientific knowledge, traditional farming and...
Acronym:
CP³
Start/end date:
1 May 2015 to 30 Apr 2018
Funding programme:
BiodivERsA
Description: There is often a misfit between established governance approaches, including the institutional structures created for governance implementation, and the spatial and temporal scales that are relevant for effective ecosystem service (ES) provision and biodiversity protection in...
Acronym:
Farm LIFE
Start/end date:
21 Jul 2018 to 31 Aug 2023
Funding programme:
LIFE
Description: The project FARM LIFE aims to contribute to climate change adaptation and to a lesser extent to climate change mitigation and climate governance as well as agricultural knowledge. It will demonstrate innovative adaption technologies, approaches and methods for land use in...
Acronym:
LIFE Biodiv' paysanne
Start/end date:
1 Oct 2021 to 31 Dec 2027
Funding programme:
LIFE
Description: The LIFE Biodiv’ paysanne project aims to preserve biodiversity and associated ecosystem services in the Occitanie region by: (i) reducing the threats caused by land use changes on natural and semi-natural habitats and on farmland, over a large network of 277 sites covering 25...
Acronym:
DecisionES
Start/end date:
1 Jul 2021 to 30 Jun 2025
Funding programme:
H2020
Description: Pressures on forest ecosystems are very likely to increase as a consequence of socioeconomic and demographic trends. A growing population will demand more products (e.g., wood) to be extracted from forest ecosystems. At the same time, these harvesting activities and their...
Acronym:
CRAS
Start/end date:
10 Aug 2019 to 18 Aug 2022
Funding programme:
H2020
Description: Objectives of the current and future European CAP are to enhance the climate change resilience of European agriculture, increase climate change adaptation and protect biodiversity. Climate change Resilience of Agriculture System (CRAS) project aims, through an econometric and...
Acronym:
SUSTREE
Start/end date:
1 Aug 2016 to 31 Jul 2019
Funding programme:
Interreg
Description: The promotion of climate change adaptation and the protection of the environment are central challenges of the CE region. With its manifold ecosystem services, CE forests are not only valuable reserves of biodiversity and pristine landscapes for recreation, but also provide...
Acronym:
Forests and CO
Start/end date:
1 Oct 2015 to 30 Sep 2017
Funding programme:
H2020
Description: Intact forests harbor large amounts of carbon and unique biodiversity, suggesting that protecting forests may benefit climate change mitigation and biodiversity conservation alike. Yet, forests also provide other essential services, from timber to energy to recreation. Balancing...
Acronym:
MENFRI
Start/end date:
1 Dec 2013 to 30 Nov 2016
Funding programme:
FP7
Description: 'The Mediterranean region will become one of the most vulnerable areas in Europe to global change. While in European Mediterranean countries the combination of climate change and land abandonment is promoting new unmanaged forest cover, increasing fire and pest risks, in the...
Acronym:
MED-FORESTE
Start/end date:
1 Apr 2019 to 31 Mar 2022
Funding programme:
Interreg
Description: The partner areas affected by the programme are highly exposed to the risk of fires and have a lot of tourists and plant fuel. The general abandonment of farming and animal husbandry has made the situation much worse; the forest area increased considerably and so did combustible...
Acronym:
LIFE BIORGEST
Start/end date:
1 Oct 2018 to 30 Sep 2023
Funding programme:
LIFE
Description: The main objective of the BIORGEST project is to improve the biodiversity of Mediterranean forests. This will be achieved by integrating specific measures and innovative practices into forest planning and management instruments, and through new financing and compensation...
Acronym:
Farmland
Start/end date:
1 Oct 2012 to 30 Sep 2015
Funding programme:
BiodivERsA
Description: Agricultural landscapes occupy 40% of the available land area, and as such play an important role in conserving biodiversity. Farmland biodiversity makes an important contribution to agricultural production by providing ecosystem services such as crop pollination and biological...
Acronym:
ECODEAL
Start/end date:
1 Jan 2015 to 31 Dec 2017
Funding programme:
BiodivERsA
Description: Biodiversity can replace external inputs to agricultural crops by delivering ecosystem services such as pollination and pest control, even in intensively farmed landscapes. The organisms driving these services depend on the presence of non-crop habitats, or “green infrastructure...
Acronym:
ISTERVIN
Start/end date:
1 Sep 2012 to 31 Aug 2014
Funding programme:
Interreg
Description: The main objective of the project was to develop knowledge and implement a new strategy for conservation of the natural environment and the sustainable and multifunctional development of viticulture based on the expansion of organic farming, particularly in areas with high...
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