One of the Norwegian partners in SELINA - the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA) - is looking for a researcher on valuation of ecosystems and ecosystem accounting. It is a permanent position at NINA's office in Oslo. The role will entail work on developing and contributing to research projects related to valuation of ecosystems, natural capital/ecosystem accounting, nature risk and related spatial modelling tools, both nationally and ...

The EU parliament has endorsed a novel legislation concerning the restoration of nature, aiming to achieve the restoration of a minimum of 20% of both land and sea areas within the EU by the year 2030, with the ultimate goal of restoring all ecosystems in need by 2050. In order to meet these overarching EU objectives, member states are required to restore no less than 30% of habitats specified in the new law—from forests, grassla...

The first meeting of the Slovenian SELINA Community of Practice (CoP) took place on 23 January 2024 in Ljubljana. The event started with a warm welcome and an introduction to the SELINA project, its Community of Practice and the concept of transformative change (“seeds of change”). Attendees represented a diverse array of sectors, including public research/educational institutions, public professional institutes, public administration, protected ...

This press release was published by EurekAlert! and AlphaGalileo. SELINA's partners and Dutch stakeholders collaborated on the uptake of the ecosystem service assessment results in private and public decision-making SELINA’s third thematic Workshop took place in Leiden, the Netherlands from 5 - 9 February 2024. Themed 'Developing Salient Information for Evidence-Based Decision Making,' and hosted by Capitals Coalition, one of th...

On the initiative of SELINA together with the ongoing projects BioMoD and ValuGaps and the Innovation Network Ecosystem Services Germany ESP-DE, the first workshop on "Transformation through cooperation: What makes knowledge transfer from ecosystem services, natural capital and biodiversity research a success?" took place at Leibniz Universität Hannover from 30 January to 31 January 2024. Bringing together nearly 30 participants from diverse b...

The first meeting of the Romanian SELINA Community of Practice (CoP) took place on 22 January 2024 in Bucharest at the University of Bucharest Platform for Research on Systemic Biology and Ecology. This in-person event was attended by 13 professionals in ecology and environmental protection, including representatives from academia, research, NGOs, private businesses, and government administration. The meeting began with a general presentation ...

The first meeting of the Polish SELINA Community of Practice took place on 12 January 2024, in Poznań. Hosted by the Adam Mickiewicz University (AMU) Department of Integrated Geography, which is involved in the SELINA project, the meeting was attended by 16 invited guests representing public institutions, governmental organisations, NGOs, and the SME sector. The meeting in Poznań was held in two parts. The first part began with participant int...

A series of video interviews with representatives of SELINA Demonstration Projects is currently ongoing, with the first few videos already published on SELINA's YouTube channel. In these interviews, participants share about their respective DPs main objectives, specific benefits and anticipated innovations, along with perspectives on how the DPs will facilitate the integration of ecosystem services and biodiversity into decision-making proce...

The SELINA Community of Practice in Croatia was officially launched on 11 January 2024, with an online meeting hosted via Microsoft Teams. The event brought together 17 participants from 13 public and private institutions in Croatia, spanning sectors such as nature protection, environmental protection, higher education, water management, and government. A representative from the Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development responsible for natu...

SELINA’s third thematic workshop is just a week away. Taking place between 5 and 9 February 2024 in Leiden, the Netherlands, the workshop will once again gather on-site and online about 90 project partners, advisory board members and local stakeholders. SELINA will bring together participants in the inspiring Leiden centre for innovation and enterpreneurship (PLNT) to engage local experts and representatives of the Municipality of Leiden and othe...

27 participants from diverse sectors, including business (denkstatt, Coca-Cola HBC), academia (Sofia University, Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research), government (Sofia Municipality, Executive Environment Agency, Executive Forests Agency, Central Balkan National Park, Bulgarian National Focal Point of IPBES), and civil society, gathered on January 19, 2024, in Sofia, Bulgaria, to lay the foundation for the SELINA Community of Practic...

The SELINA Community of Practice (CoP) in Spain is an integral part of the SELINA Demonstration Project (DP01) led by URJC and MITECO. The primary focus of this DP includes identifying key green infrastructure (GI) elements at the national level, based on the ecosystem services (ES) they offer, their connectivity, and biodiversity. Additionally, it seeks to pinpoint hotspots of ES potential using GI elements and delineate areas requiring restorat...