The 5th ESP Europe Conference will take place between 18-22 November 2024 in Wageningen, Netherlands under the theme Ecosystem Services: One Planet, One Health. This year, the conference will emphasise two key thematic streams: “Ecosystem services and health” and “Ecosystem services and conditions for transformative change. ” These themes aim to explore the role of ecosystem services in fostering health and driving essential changes within...

On Tuesday, 1 October 2024, the Italian Community of Practice held its second meeting, bringing together 25 participants to present and discuss some of Italy’s best practices and transformative case studies ("seeds of change"). These practices were gathered through a questionnaire distributed in the preceding months. After a brief introduction outlining the objectives of the meeting, a general overview of all the collected best practices was p...

The fifth SELINA Thematic Workshop will take place on 12-16 May 2025 in the Azores, Portugal, hosted by the SELINA partner Gaspar Frutuoso Foundation (FGF). The Workshop will focus on integrating ecosystem services analysis from WP3-5 with project partners, stakeholders, and members of the SELINA Advisory Board, and to address decision-makers’ needs. The venue for the Workshop will be the University in the Azores (Ponta Delgada Campus) which u...

The 53rd Annual Conference of the German Ecological Society (GfÖ) took place in Freising, Germany from 9 - 13 September 2024 and was hosted by the research campus in Freising-Weihenstephan. The conference was under the topic “The future of sustainable land use across ecosystems, landscapes and biomes” and welcomed over 700 participants, including ecology, biodiversity, and environmental pollution professionals alongside early career researchers a...

On 12 September 2024, the first webinar in the Transformative Change Seminar series was held, as part of a collaborative effort by seven Horizon Europe projects within the Transformative Change cluster. The goal of the series is to foster collaborative learning, enhance synergies between concepts and methodologies, co-create adaptive solutions and tools, and share experiences. The webinar, titled "Conceptual Frameworks on Transformative Change...

The recently published SELINA article “Mapping and assessing marine ecosystem services supply in the Baltic Sea” introduces three methodological frameworks that were applied to quantitatively map and assess marine ecosystem services (ES) supply across the Baltic Sea in a spatio-temporal perspective. Published in the multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal Science of the Total Environment, the study reveals that ecosystem services are respon...

EY denkstatt Bulgaria is looking for a Bulgarian speaker, interested in nature and business, and willing to dive into numbers and standards. What will your job involve? Support clients in implementing requirements and reporting on business standards related to biodiversity - CSRD, TNFD, GRI 304, SBTN, CDP. Calculation of business impacts on biodiversity in the chain value (biodiversity footprint). Work with technical tools and databa...

Published in One Ecosystem (an innovative Open Access scholarly journal which provides a forum for studies in the field of ecology and sustainability), the SELINA-supported article “Increasing uptake of ecosystem service assessments: best practice check-lists for practitioners in Europe” reviews 111 guidance documents on ecosystem service assessments across Europe, developing best practice checklists to improve the design and implementation of th...

Published in MethodsX (a multidisciplinary, open access, peer-reviewed journal), the SELINA-supported article “A simple method for mapping winter recreational fishing ecosystem services supply in lakes. A contribution to mapping freshwater ecosystem services” introduces a novel method for mapping winter recreational fishery ecosystem services (ES) in urban lakes using high-resolution images from an unmanned aerial vehicle. This approach helps ide...

The 5th ESP Europe Conference, themed "Ecosystem Services: One Planet, One Health," and organised by the Foundation for Sustainable Development (FSD) (a partner in SELINA) and the Ecosystem Services Partnership (ESP) will take place from 18-22 November 2024 in Wageningen, the Netherlands. This conference will refer to how ecosystem services can address the global vision of One Health, emphasising the interdependence of human, animal, plant, and e...

Representatives from the European projects SELINA and BioValue met at the University of Trento on 4 July 2024 to identify and strengthen project synergies. The Urban Regeneration and Innovation office of the Municipality of Trento presented the transformative pathways for the Trento Arena from BioValue, highlighting the Plan to redevelop the Fersina River. This initiative involves revising current planning instruments to align with new sustain...

This press release was published by EurekAlert! and AlphaGalileo. Around 90 scientists, decision-makers, and ecosystem service experts convened in Trondheim to discuss advancing methodological solutions for integrated ecosystem assessments. The fourth SELINA Thematic Workshop took place from 17-20 June 2024, hosted by the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA) in Trondheim, Norway. The event welcomed around 90 on-site a...