Designing a Resilient and Coherent Trans-European Network for Nature and People (NaturaConnect)
At a glance
Geography
Horizon Europe: Innovation Action (IA)
Project description
NaturaConnect aims to support the development of the TEN-N, through an integration of stakeholder engagement across scales and interdisciplinary research, to develop spatial planning policy supporting tools. Stakeholder engagement both at the European scale, and in a set of six case studies at transborder, national and sub-national scales, will elicit preferences from decision-makers about conservation targets, harness best protected area management practices and funding mechanisms, and test the TEN-N spatial prioritization analysis and tools produced by NaturaConnect. This will address three of the major obstacles identified by the Fitness Check of the EU Nature Legislation: (1) lack of stakeholder awareness and cooperation; (2) insufficient knowledge and access to existing funding mechanisms; and (3) limited availability of knowledge on biodiversity distribution, drivers of change and solutions. To address this, NaturaConnect has a comprehensive set of interdisciplinary research tasks aimed at producing, sharing and mobilizing knowledge for implementation. This includes applying state-of-the-art models on the distribution of biodiversity and ecosystem services across Europe and how it may change under future climate and land-use scenarios, in order to close gaps in distribution data and identify gaps in the current protected area coverage and to conserve ecological corridors and restore connectivity.
Principal investigator
Cooperation partners
- Cooperation partnerNon-university research institutionPortugal
CENTRO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO EM BIODIVERSIDADE E RECURSOS GENÉTICOS
- Cooperation partnerGermany
EUROPARC Federation
- Cooperation partnerNon-university research institutionFinland
Finnish Environment Institute
- Cooperation partnerFrance
French National Center for Scientific Research
- Cooperation partnerBelgium
Institute for European Environmental Policy
- Cooperation partnerNon-university research institutionAustria
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
- Cooperation partnerUniversityGermany
Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg
- Cooperation partnerNon-university research institutionNetherlands
PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency
- Cooperation partnerNetherlands
Rewilding Europe
- Cooperation partnerUniversityItaly
Sapienza University orf Rome
- Cooperation partnerNon-university research institutionSpain
Spanish National Research Council
- Cooperation partnerNetherlands
Stichting BirdLife Europe
- Cooperation partnerUniversityFinland
University of Helsinki
- Cooperation partnerUniversityAustria
University of Natural Resources an Life Science Vienna
- Cooperation partnerUniversityPoland
University of Warsaw
- Cooperation partnerUniversityPortugal
University of Évora
- Cooperation partnerUniversityNetherlands
Vrije University Amsterdam
- Cooperation partnerFoundationGermany
World Wide Fund For Nature