Project description
Increasing stakeholder awareness to boost biodiversity
The EU Member States have committed to legally protect a minimum of 30 % of the EU’s land and sea area and to strictly protect at least a third of protected areas under the EU 2030 Biodiversity Strategy as a major contribution to the European Green Deal. In this context, the EU-funded NaturaConnect project will bring together a consortium of the top European scientists, policy experts and NGOs to produce and mobilise relevant data and knowledge. The aim will be to co-develop knowledge, tools and capacity-building programmes to support Member States in implementing an ecologically representative, resilient and well-connected trans-European nature network (TEN-N).
Objective
Together with key stakeholders, NaturaConnect will co-develop knowledge, tools and capacity building programmes to support Member States in implementing an ecologically representative, resilient and well-connected trans-European nature network (TEN-N) that builds on the existing network of protected areas and Green and Blue Infrastructure. Through research, engagement and dissemination activities at the European scale and in a set of six case studies, we will elicit stakeholders’ visions and preferences about conservation objectives, tap into best practices in protected areas management and funding mechanisms, mobilize data and test the TEN-N spatial prioritization analyses and tools produced by NaturaConnect. This addresses two major obstacles identified by the EU Nature Legislation Fitness Check: lack of stakeholder awareness and cooperation, and insufficient knowledge and access to existing funding mechanisms. NaturaConnect will further address a third major obstacle, limited availability of knowledge on biodiversity distribution, drivers of change and conservation solutions. To address this, NaturaConnect brings together a consortium of the top European scientists, policy experts and NGOs to produce and mobilize relevant data and knowledge. This includes refining and applying state-of-the-art models on biodiversity, ecosystem services and environmental change across Europe and under current and future climate and land-use. Equipped with improved data, knowledge, models and spatial planning methods we will identify gaps in protected area coverage, connectivity and resilience under climate and land-use change. We will further develop scenarios for expanding protected areas, establish ecological corridors and other areas of connectivity to address these gaps, thereby offering a blue-print for realizing TEN-N. NaturaConnect will further provide knowledge and decision support for policy, financing and implementation of TEN-N at all relevant scales.
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2361 Laxenburg
Austria
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Participants (20)
6108 Halle
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00185 Roma
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2500 EX Den Haag
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1081 HV Amsterdam
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4485-661 VAIRAO, VILA DO CONDE
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7000 803 Evora
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28006 Madrid
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00014 Helsingin Yliopisto
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75794 Paris
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3707BM Zeist
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93047 Regensburg
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10117 Berlin
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1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
6525 ED Nijmegen
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1160 Wien
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
Legal entity other than a subcontractor which is affiliated or legally linked to a participant. The entity carries out work under the conditions laid down in the Grant Agreement, supplies goods or provides services for the action, but did not sign the Grant Agreement. A third party abides by the rules applicable to its related participant under the Grant Agreement with regard to eligibility of costs and control of expenditure.
1141 Budapest
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Legal entity other than a subcontractor which is affiliated or legally linked to a participant. The entity carries out work under the conditions laid down in the Grant Agreement, supplies goods or provides services for the action, but did not sign the Grant Agreement. A third party abides by the rules applicable to its related participant under the Grant Agreement with regard to eligibility of costs and control of expenditure.
050881 Bucuresti
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00790 Helsinki
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1180 Wien
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00-927 WARSZAWA
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Partners (1)
Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement.
CB2 3QZ Cambridge
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