On 17 March, 2023, the Research Executive Agency (REA), the Directorate-General for Environment (DG ENV) and the Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (DG RTD) organised a “cluster” event in Brussels with the 11 projects funded under the Framework Transformative Change for Biodiversity and selected strategic and cross-cutting initiatives such as BioAgora and the EU Business & Biodiversity Platform. The projects under the Framew...

At the end of March, around 140 experts and key stakeholders working and engaging in activities within SELINA will gather in Sofia, Bulgaria to mark the beginning of a series of interactive workshops planned within the project. The hybrid event is organised by Pensoft Publishers and the National Institute of Geophysics, Geodesy and Geography at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, and will take place on 27-31 March. It will focus on the needs of de...

Ever since the project’s launch in July of 2022, SELINA Partners have been focused on raising awareness about the project, setting the scene for five successful and impactful years ahead. In August, the SELINA website went live, making all essential information about the project quickly and easily accessible. Among other things, it includes information about the project’s partners, mission, and work packages, as well as an online library of ...

Between 10–14 October 2022, SELINA members attended the 4th ESP Europe Conference in Heraklion, Crete. The conference, which ran under the theme “Ecosystem services empowering people and societies in times of crises,” was hosted by SELINA Partner University of Patras and Harokopio University of Athens — and it brought together more than 400 participants from 50 countries from Europe and beyond. SELINA was represented, among others, by the project’...

Leading experts on ES science, ecosystem accounting, business- and policy-related decision making and on science-policy-business interfaces from related actions (OpenNESS, ESMERALDA, MAIA, MAES, ESP, IPBES, BD Partnership) met in Hannover from September 14-17, 2022, to mark the official launch of the EU Horizon Project SELINA and begin working towards their ambitious goals of implementing ES-related scientific outcomes in evidence-based decision-...

The European project SELINA has been awarded 13 million euros in EU funding to help decision-makers achieve the ambitious goals of the European Biodiversity Strategy 2030 and the Green Deal. Bringing together experts from 50 partner organisations from all 27 EU member states, Norway, Switzerland, Israel, and the United Kingdom, SELINA will develop a knowledge base that will create never-before-seen opportunities for evidence-based decision-making...