SELINA - Science for Evidence-based and sustainabLe decisIons about NAtural capital
Principal Investigator at ZRC SAZU
Mateja Šmid Hribar, PhD-
Original Title
SELINA – Znanost za na dokazih temelječe in trajnostne odločitve o naravnem kapitalu
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Acronym
SELINA
Project Team
Daniela Alexandra Teixeira da Costa Ribeiro, PhD, Elizabeta Vršnik-
Duration
1 July 2022–30 June 2027 -
Lead Partner
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Financial Source
Funded by the European Union's Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Programme under grant agreement No 101060415.
Partners
Capitals Coalition CapsCo , Ecostack Innovations EcoINN , University of Trento UniTrento , Pensoft Publishers PENSOFT , Centre for Ecological Research , Mykolo Romerio Universitetas , University of Patras , space4environment s4e , National Institute of Geophysics, Geodesy and Geography - University Rey Juan C…, Paris-Lodron-University Salzburg , University of Bucharest , ETH Zürich , Flemish Institute for Technological Research, Foundation for Sustainable Development , Baltic Environment Forum , UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre , Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan, National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment , Copenhagen University , Norwegian Institute for Natural Research, Estonian University of Life Sciences , Cyprus Institute , Wageningen University , Finnish Environment Institute , Global Change Research Institute of the CAS , SarVision , Ministry of the Environment of the Slovak Republic , Gaspar Frutuoso Foundation , Municipality of Trento , Ministry of Environment of the Republic of Lithuania , Ministry of Environmental Protection and Regional Development of the Republic o…, South Atlantic Environmental Research Institute , Research Centre in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources , University of Haifa , KTH Royal Institute of Technology , Croatian Forest Research Institute , SEAcoop , University of Reunion , Spatial Services , Asplan Viak , Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge , denkstatt , Wolfs Company , Joint Research Centre
SELINA will provide guidance for evidence-based decision-making that supports the protection, restoration, and sustainable use of our environment. Through a collaboration of experts from 50 partner organisations from all 27 EU member states, Norway, Switzerland, Israel, and the United Kingdom, SELINA will set new standards for international cooperation to promote Ecosystem Services (ES) and Biodiversity (BD) conservation and enhance Ecosystem Conditions (EC).
Providing robust practical information and recommendations to stakeholders from both the public and private sectors, SELINA will pave the way towards the transformative societal change required to achieve the ambitious goals of the European Biodiversity Strategy 2030 and the Green Deal.
SELINA strands and Work Packages, their overall organisations and interrelations.
SELINA will produce various outcomes: concrete Deliverables (i.e. reports, publications, methods database and documentation), networking (e.g. by Communities of Practice and a series of altogether eight thematic Workshops across Europe) and an open access Compendium of Guidance at the science-policy-business-society interface that translates the technical results into a format to be used by a broad suite of stakeholders.
All outcomes will support stakeholder engagement to increase relevance and applications of scientific outcomes for evidence-based, more cost-effective and sustainable decision-making about natural capital; in the 15 SELINA public and private decision-making Demonstration Projects and beyond, SELINA will furthermore foster our understanding of ecosystems and their services to increase robustness of approaches, methods and data that are necessary to support transformative change on different scales.
More about SELINA can be found at web page.