Projets financés
Hybrid NATURE-Based Solutions as BIOdiversity PROMOters and Their Implications for Emerging Contaminants Mitigation – NATUREBIOPROMO
Aquatic ecosystems face constant pressure from multiple anthropogenic drivers, such as emerging contaminants (e.g. pesticides, pharmaceuticals, PFAS), which have become a hot topic for international policies. These pollutants deserve our attention due to their persistence in the environment coupled
Developing NbS scaling approaches to achieve just transformative change – FairNature
FairNature’s mission is to develop a vital understanding of the justice challenges around nature-based solutions (NbS) and identify key requirements for scaling NbS to foster just transformative change. While NbS are of growing political relevance, they have to be implemented at tremendous scale to
River Conviviality: Advancing socio_x0002_environmentally just river restoration through nature based solutions – RiVIVE
River restoration has received increased attention in policy and practice around the world. However, its implementation is often challenged by social contestations, which often relate to top-down visions that fail to recognize rivers as complex multidimensional socio-ecological systems. This project
FREE-B: Studying FREE-living honey Bee colonies in Europe: nature-based solutions to safeguard diversity, ensure resilience, and promote transformative change in beekeeping – FreeB
FREE-B is a groundbreaking initiative focused on studying free-living honey bee colonies (FLCs) in Europe. It addresses critical issues related to anthropogenic stressors, genetic diversity, bodiversity conservation, and solutions for more sustainable beekeeping. Honey bees (Apis mellifera) have lon
Anticipating Biological Succession in Rehabilitation of Long-Term Operated Nature_x0002_Based Solutions for Stormwater Treatment in Different Climate Zones – BioReStorm
Nature-based solutions (NBS) for stormwater treatment have been increasingly implemented in the last decades. As these systems are very flexible concerning size, design and adaptation to climatic zone, they have a huge potential for implementation in urban areas worldwide. Vegetation plays an import
Nature-based Solutions to meet EU Nature Restoration Targets: Evaluating synergies and trade-offs across Ecosystem Services for biodiversity conservation, climate change mitigation, and resilience and autonomy improvement – EVESNAT
To address upcoming challenges from the new EU Nature Restoration Law, Nature-based Solutions (NbS) are promising to support nature restoration. However, the ability of NbS to co-generate benefits for human well-being is still unclear. The aim of the project EVESNAT is to evaluate different spatiall
transFOrming rUral laNDscapes And communiTIes thrOugh NAture-based soLutions: integrating biodiversity conservation and human well-being at the nature-agriculture interphase – FOUNDATIONAL
Nature-based solutions (NBSs) geared to the design and management of sustainable, multifunctional landscapes require innovative planning. Such landscape planning, and the modification of practices, involves tradeoffs between competing claims for natural resources and land uses, as well as the aspira
Peptide Biodiversity: Advancing Human Health Through Nature's Pharmacological Treasures – Biodiversity2Drugs
The Biodiveristy2Drugs project, embedded within the BIODIVERSA+ theme, is dedicated to harnessing the biodiversity of nature-derived peptides for drug discovery, aiming to significantly improve human health. This initiative stands at the crossroads of science, human well-being, and sustainability, p
Greening cities as nature-based solution and their impact on vectors and vector-borne disease risks – BIODIVECITY
Urbanization is increasing globally and is frequently associated with environmental disruptions that result in pollution, flooding, extreme heat, and biodiversity loss. The greening of cities represents a nature-based solution (NBS) that helps to promote sustainable cities. There is much evidence of
Spontaneous Urban Nature and LOcal nO net land take Policies – SUNLOOP
The SUNLOOP project addresses the challenges posed by biodiversity loss and climate change in urban environments, focusing on spaces of Spontaneous Urban Nature (SUN) as a potential Nature-based solution within the context of "No Net Land Take" policies. These policies, that are generalizing through
Discovering Brazilian Biodiversity-Driven Plastic Degradation through Omics Analysis – BioPlastOmics
The extensive use of plastics since the middle of the last century and the lack of guidelines for the management of the huge amounts of waste they generate has led to contamination of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. Among petroleum-derived plastics, the most used are polymers with C-C bonds like
