The first SELINA Community of Practice (CoP) meeting in Greece was held on 15 November 2023, at the University of Patras Botanical Museum. The meeting was organised online and was attended by twelve representatives of academic, central and regional government bodies, with interest in the Greek Test Site Area (Peloponnese (Peloponnisos)), i. e. , the Forest Service (Ministry of Environment and Energy), the Natural Environment and Climate Change Agen...

The Danish Network on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service was initiated by the ESMERALDA project in 2016 and is currently hosted by the Danish IPBES office in collaboration with DTU Aqua, University of Copenhagen IGN and OIKOS. A workshop was organised on 3 November 2023 in cooperation by the network and the SELINA project. The meeting attracted 33 participants – 17 from research, 10 from private enterprises, 4 from the authorities and 2 from NGOs...

On 30 November 2023, the first meeting of the Lithuanian Community of Practice (CoP) was organized as part of the SELINA project activities. The event was hosted virtually by the Ministry of Environment of the Republic of Lithuania (LRAM) and Mykolas Romeris University (MRU), both partners in SELINA. Ieva Čaraitė welcomed the participants and gave a presentation about the SELINA project and its objectives. Following a brief discussion, Katažyn...

On the 5th of December 2023, the kick-off of the Belgian Platform for Transformative Change took place. The platform allows to look for signs of fundamental change in the way we relate to the world around us, in the way we interact with ecosystems, and in the way we generate and use knowledge. The meeting also served as a kick-off of the SELINA Community of Practice in Belgium. The Platform is an initiative of VITO, stemming from their partici...

The second meeting of the National Platform for Ecosystem Services (NPES) took place on 13 June 2023, in the premises of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in Prague. The meeting was prepared as part of the activities of the project "One nature" (Integrated project LIFE for the Natura 2000 system in the Czech Republic) and organised by the Global Change Research of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (CzechGlobe) together wit...

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...