The 52nd Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland (GfÖ Annual Meeting 2023) took place in Leipzig, Germany from 12-16 September 2023, hosted by the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig. The conference was held under the motto “The Future of Biodiversity – overcoming barriers of taxa, realms and scales”, and welcomed more than 1 100 participants from around 30 countr...

From 6 - 8 September 2023, the University of Trento hosted the second BioValue project meeting, which aims at advancing biodiversity's value by supporting EU strategic actions through transformative change in spatial planning and policymaking. The aim of the BioValue project is to incorporate biodiversity information at different levels of the decision-making process for spatial policy and planning practices. This will increase the opportuni...

A recent publication in the Nature journal, based on the IPBES Values Assessment, studies concepts that are referred to in SELINA’s work. The paper argues that there is an urgent need to understand how and why nature is (under)valued, to reconsider the prioritisation of a subset of values, particularly those linked to markets, and to ignore other ways people relate to and benefit from nature. Derived from over 50,000 scientific studies, policy...

In June 2023, the first SELINA-supported research paper “Accounting for forest condition in Europe based on an international statistical standard” was published in the Nature Communications journal. It examines forest ecosystems, their crucial role in safeguarding biodiversity and mitigating climate change, and the threat forest degradation poses to key ecosystems and society. The paper provides a spatially explicit assessment of the condition of ...

From 3 – 7 July 2023 the National Institute of Geophysics, Geodesy and Geography (NIGGG-BAS), which is one of the Bulgarian partners in the SELINA project, co-organised an innovative field course for secondary school students titled “Education for and by karst”. A total of 17 students from two secondary schools in Sofia, Bulgaria took part in the training. One of the modules in the course focused on the mapping and assessment of ecosyste...

We are proud to announce that Joana Vicente from the SELINA partner Research Centre in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources (CIBIO) in Portugal is a fellow in one of the chapters of the Assessment Report on Invasive Alien Species and their Control (known as the Invasive Alien Species Report) developed by the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). The unveiling of the Invasive Alien Species Report will take place o...

The Ecosystem Department of the South Atlantic Environmental Research Institute (SAERI) is looking for a Project Officer to work on the SELINA (Science for evidence-based and sustainable decisions about natural capital) project in which SAERI is currently involved. The duration of the position is 22 months starting September 2023. The position will be based in both Falkland Island (September 2023 - July 2024) and St. Helena (August 2024 - Jun...

This press release was published by EurekAlert! and AlphaGalileo. EU HORIZON project SELINA shows real-world examples of how knowledge on biodiversity, ecosystems and ecosystem services can be used to support evidence-based public and private decision-making. The SELINA project achieved a significant milestone with the official launch of its Demonstration Projects (DPs), which was held online on 7 June 2023. Hosted online by Capitals Coal...

On 23 May 2023, in Riga, Latvia, the SELINA partners Baltic Environmental Forum Latvia and the Ministry of Environment Protection and Regional Development of the Republic of Latvia jointly organised the first meeting of the Latvian Community of Practice (CoP). The local CoP started during the ESMERALDA project and was now re-established by SELINA, involving both former and new members. The meeting brought together more than 30 expe...

We are excited to announce SELINA's second thematic workshop that will take place from 2 - 5 October 2023 in Madrid, Spain. It will be organised by SELINA’s partner from Spain - Rey Juan Carlos University, and will welcome SELINA’s partners, Advisory Board members, early career researchers and local stakeholders. Apart from presenting and discussing project progress and future steps, the participants will be provided the opportunity for collabora...

On 1 July 2023, we celebrated SELINA’s 1st Birthday!It has been a fruitful and exciting journey over the past year. From the very beginning, we have been dedicated to making a positive impact across Europe by promoting ecosystem services and biodiversity conservation and enhancing ecosystem conditions. Here are some of the key SELINA highlights from the last year:We engaged and collaborated with relevant stakeholders to raise awareness about the p...

Abstract submission for the 4th International ESP Latin America and Caribbean Conference 2023 is now open! The conference will be held from 6th to 10th November 2023 in La Serena, Chile under the theme “Sharing Knowledge about Ecosystem Services and Natural Capital to Build a Sustainable Future”. The meeting is organised by the Faculty of Regional Development and International Studies at Mendel University in Brno, la Corporacion Regional de ...

SELINA is excited to announce the release of its first newsletter, which was prepared to keep SELINA’s community informed and engaged with the project’s latest news and activities. Access the newsletter here to learn about the project and its progress so far, and to catch up on SELINA’s upcoming activities and relevant events. Don’t miss out on SELINA’s upcoming updates! Subscribe to its newsletter and follow the project on social media. ...

The Planning for Ecosystem Services and Urban Sustainability (PLANES) lab at the University of Trento seeks an enthusiastic postdoc candidate interested in spatial planning and ecosystem services. The accepted candidate will work on the following topics: Design frameworks for mapping and assessing ecosystem services (by identifying methods, indicators, data, etc. ) in various contexts and sectors. Perform spatial analysis and asses...

This press release was published by EurekAlert! and AlphaGalileo. A three-day workshop in Sofia brought together experts and stakeholders to discuss seeds of transformative change in the context of biodiversity and ecosystem services. From 27 to 31 March 2023, nearly 120 experts and key stakeholders from public and private sectors gathered together for a workshop in Sofia, Bulgaria, to deliberate the enabling factors and barriers to implemen...