SELINA Demonstration Projects (DPs) are real-world innovative examples of how knowledge of biodiversity, ecosystems, and ecosystem services can inform and support evidence-based decision-making processes (from projects to plans and policies) in both public and private domains. To facilitate access to information about the 15 SELINA DPs, we have launched the Demonstration Projects tab under the Impact menu on the SELINA website. The section provid...

We are excited to announce the introduction of a new 'Synergies' tab under the Partners menu on the SELINA website. This designated space serves as a platform to recognise and showcase the established synergies between SELINA and relevant EU-funded projects, informing about collaborative efforts and joint initiatives. The aim is to create a more determined community devoted to biodiversity, ecosystem services, and natural capital. The collabor...

The launch of the SELINA Early Career Researchers Network (ECRN) was announced during the second SELINA thematic workshop, that took place in Madrid, Spain in October 2023. The network kicked-off with an online webinar on 22 November 2023. Starting in November 2023, the early career researchers of the SELINA project will be meeting monthly to foster the exchange of diverse expertise within SELINA, strengthen professional and personal relations...

During Session T14 of the 4th International ESP Latin America and Caribbean Conference (6 -10 November 2023, La Serena, Chile), SELINA partners unveiled its transdisciplinary knowledge co-production framework developed within the SELINA public Demonstration Projects (DPs) work package. This framework was the basis for comprehending the decision-making context within the seven SELINA public DPs during the project's first year. The session, hosted ...

We are excited to announce the launch of the SELINA introduction video which is now available on our YouTube channel! With this 4-minute visual journey, we aim to make you experience the highlights of SELINA with its goals, vision and impact, focusing on: SELINA Demonstration Projects and Workshops SELINA 'seeds of change' SELINA Communities of Practice SELINA Compendium of Guidance SELINA partners team The vi...

On 8 November 2023, the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU) organised the final event of the NatGuidES project in Ljubljana, Slovenia, where they presented the manual for the identification, assessment and mapping of ecosystem services (ES). The manual has been developed within the framework of the project to define practical steps for the implementation of the concept of ES in protected are...

SELINA is excited to announce the release of its second newsletter! Access the newsletter here to learn about the project's progress in the last six months, 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. ...

This press release was published by EurekAlert! and AlphaGalileo. Engaging discussions, keynote speeches and a picturesque field trip marked the second SELINA thematic workshop. The second SELINA thematic workshop took place from 2-5 October 2023 in Madrid, Spain, hosted by SELINA’s partner Rey Juan Carlos University. This hybrid event with the theme "Advancing solutions" (for mapping, assessment and accounting of ecosystems and ...

The second SELINA thematic workshop will take place from 2-5 October 2023 in the CaixaForum cultural centre in Madrid, Spain. The hybrid format of the event will allow for more than 80 participants to attend on-site and around 20 more to join online. Among the participants will be SELINA’s partners, Advisory Board members, early career researchers and local stakeholders from the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge...

On 14 September 2023, a training on the use of the PlanWise4Blue platform took place in Sigulda, Latvia. The event was organised by the team of the ADRIENNE+ project (University of Tartu) in cooperation with the SELINA team from the Baltic Environmental Forum – Latvia. The PlanWise4Blue is an online GIS platform developed by scientists at the University of Tartu that aims to provide science-based support for assessing the impacts of human acti...

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...