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Forestry and Freshwater Living Labs for restoration and adaptation

Objective

EU strategies for biodiversity, nature restoration, and climate call for the large-scale recovery of degraded ecosystems, with forest, freshwater, and their nexus as a key priority. Despite their role in biodiversity, carbon storage and climate resilience, these ecosystems continue to deteriorate, requiring systemic, transdisciplinary, and participatory approaches engaging multiple stakeholders under combined pressures from climate change, land use, and fragmentation.
To address this and building on the ENoLL LL methodology, FLLORA aims to create a coordinated, transdisciplinary, and harmonised network of LLs, Harmonisers and Replicators to lead the transition towards forests and freshwater restoration and adaptation. The LLs, located across Alpine, Boreal, Continental and Mediterranean regions, co-create, validate, and scale locally adapted restoration solutions across multiple sites and gradients of pressure, jointly addressing restoration and non-deterioration of forest and freshwater ecosystems. In this commitment they are supported by Harmonisers, leading organisations on LL and restoration methodologies that provide methodological coherence, harmonised MRV, cross-LL comparability and SSH integration, while Replicators, drawn from both the LL and user communities, foster replication and scaling across Europe and prepare uptake in additional territories.
Through multi-scale participatory actions and a structured innovation cycle ensuring cross-LL learning, FLLORA will strengthen capacity, enhance literacy and advance practice-oriented knowledge at local, national and EU level, fostering uptake and shared learning across communities, sectors and stakeholders. In parallel, it will embed results into policy, financing and monitoring frameworks, ensuring practice-inspired policy and contributing to EU restoration and climate agendas as well as international biodiversity and sustainability commitments.

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Funding Scheme

HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions

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Call for proposal

(opens in new window) HORIZON-CL6-2025-01-two-stage

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Coordinator

EUROPEAN NETWORK OF LIVING LABS IVZW
Net EU contribution
€ 741 375,00
Address
KUNSTLAAN 6
1210 Sint-Joost-ten-Node
Belgium
Region
Région de Bruxelles-Capitale/Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest Région de Bruxelles-Capitale/ Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest Arr. de Bruxelles-Capitale/Arr. Brussel-Hoofdstad
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Participants (25)