The “Urban Green Plan”, a document developed and created by the Municipality of Trento, LAND Italia, and the University of Trento, has been approved. The Green Plan is part of the main international environmental policy plans, from the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development to the European Green Deal, from the European Biodiversity Strategy to the European Law on Nature Restoration. Designed with a co-creation perspective, the Urban Gre...

On 28 January 2025, the Baltic Environmental Forum - Latvia, in cooperation with the Ministry of Smart Administration and Regional Development, organised the second meeting of the Latvian Community of Practice on Nature Diversity and Ecosystem Services. Held in Riga, the event brought together over 30 participants from various sectors, including research, NGOs, businesses, and state and municipal organisations. The main objectives were to provide...

On 23 September 2024, the University of Copenhagen hosted the conference ‘Transformative Change and Ecosystem Services’ organised by the Danish Network on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in collaboration between IPBES in Denmark and the EU research project SELINA. The main aim of the conference was to discuss how to speed up the green transition to solve the biodiversity and climate crisis. More than 30 participants from science, busi...

The Italian Community of Practice held its third meeting on Monday, 2 December 2024, to explore best practices and identify synergies for fostering transformative change approaches in biodiversity and ecosystem services assessment. The event was attended by twelve participants representing non-profits, private enterprises, academia, and the public sector. The meeting focused on sharing and analysing innovative best practices, referred to as "S...

With the holiday season here, SELINA brings you a special Christmas Newsletter, packed with updates, reflections, and holiday cheer. Welcome to SELINA’s seventh Newsletter! Here’s what news we have for you: For second consecutive year SELINA proudly marked its presence at the Ecosystem Services Partnership (ESP) conference. A refreshed SELINA website: the upcoming updates will make it easier than ever to access project information, resour...

The 5th ESP Europe Conference was held in Wageningen, Netherlands, from 18-22 November 2024. Centered around the theme "Ecosystem Services: One Planet, One Health," the event brought together over 500 participants from 49 European countries, as well as attendees from Russia, Canada, and the USA. The event was organised by the Ecosystem Services Partnership (ESP), Foundation for Sustainable Development (FSD) and Wageningen university &a...

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...