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...

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...

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...

On 8 April 2024, the Italian Community of Practice launched with 42 participants representing diverse sectors, including associations and non-profits, research institutions, and public and private sector representatives. This first CoP meeting aimed to build connections, identify common objectives, and establish operational procedures to promote collaboration and knowledge sharing within the community. Following an introduction to the SELINA p...

On 19 March 2024, the Ministry of the Environment of the Slovak Republic (MoE SR), a partner in SELINA, hosted its first Community of Practice (CoP) meeting, building on the previous national Mapping and Assessment of Ecosystems and their Services (MAES) group. To maximise accessibility, the meeting was held both in person and online, attracting nearly 30 participants, including permanent representatives of the national MAES group and newly invit...

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 ...

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...

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...