BiodivRestore booklet
biodivRestores projects
The twenty-two projects were selected for funding in response to the BiodivRestore joint call
The call was co-funded by the European Commission and covered three non-exclusive themes:
- Studying the biological and biophysical processes at stake for conservation/restoration, and their interactions
- Assessing trade-offs and synergies between targets, benefits and policies for conservation and restoration
- Knowledge for improving the effectiveness and upscaling of conservation and restoration action
The aim of this call was to support transnational research projects on conservation and restoration of degraded ecosystems and their biodiversity, including a focus on aquatic systems, properly taking into account socioecological contexts, and promoting innovative research for more informed decision-making.
This joint call included a focus on freshwater aquatic systems but all environments were eligible, i.e. marine, freshwater and terrestrial – including urban. While projects could focus on only one environment; proposals
comparing different environments or studying links between environments (e.g., aquatic-terrestrial) were
particularly welcomed.
The funded projects are listed below.
| Project acronym | Project Title | Coordinator | Participating countries |
| BINATUR | Bringing nature back – biodiversity friendly nature-based solutions in cities | Finland | Belgium, Germany, Poland, Portugal |
| BIOCONSENT | Decision-making Support for Forest Biodiversity Conservation and Restoration Policy and Management in Europe: Trade-offs and Synergies at the Forest-Biodiversity-Climate-Water Nexus | Germany | Austria, Bulgaria, Spain, Finland, Sweden |
| BIORESET | Biodiversity restoration and conservation of inland water ecosystems for environmental and human well-being | Portugal | Spain, Norway, Sweden |
| BIO-TRADE | Protecting Biodiversity through Regulating Trade and International Business | Finland | Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden |
| COAST | Conservation of marine ecosystems around Santo Antão, Cabo Verde: implications for policy and society | Portugal | Germany, France, Spain, Portugal-Azores |
| COSAR | Context-dependence of the societal and ecological outcomes from river ecosystem restoration | France | Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland |
| DEEP REST | Conservation & restoration of deep-sea ecosystems in the context of deep-sea mining | France | Belgium, Germany, Spain, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Portugal-Azores |
| EMYS-R | A socio-ecological evaluation of wetlands restoration and reintroduction programs in favor of the emblematic European pond turtle and associated biodiversity: a pan-European approach | France | Germany, Poland, Latvia |
| FISHME |
Social and ecological effects of Fish removal in Mountain Ecosystems |
France | Austria, Italy, Switzerland Spain, Romania |
| FORESTFISHER | Priority areas for conservation and restoration of Amazonian forest-frugivorous fish interactions and associated fisheries | France | Brazil, Germany, Portugal, United States of America |
| FRESHH | Farmer acceptable REstoration of Semi-natural Habitat to limit Herbicides | France | Austria, Czech Republic, Netherlands, Sweden |
| FRESHRESTORE | Holistic evaluation and restoration measures of human impacts on freshwater ecosystems across biogeographical gradients | Norway | Denmark, Spain, Finland, Sweden |
| INTERREST | Interactive effects of local and landscape scale restoration of semi-natural grasslands and agricultural fields on species interactions and ecosystem functions in different social-ecological systems | Germany | Belgium, Estonia, Spain, Netherlands, Sweden |
| Enhancing the role of MPAs in restoring biodiversity while maintaining access to ecosystem services | Denmark | Spain, France, Portugal, Sweden | |
| NARROW | Narratives on restored water | Sweden | Switzerland, Finland |
| NICHES | Nature's Integration in Cities' Hydrologies, Ecologies and Societies | Germany | Bulgaria, Spain, Netherlands, United Kingdom, United States of America |
| REMOVE_DISEASE | Conservation and restoration of degraded insular biodiversity: impacts of the removal of introduced mammals on the dynamics of infectious diseases in seabirds across islands of the Southern Ocean | France | Portugal, United Kingdom, South Africa |
| RESPOND | Restoring and Managing Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services of Temporary Pond Landscapes | Belgium | Morocco, Poland, Spain |
| RESTOLINK | Quantifying restoration success across biomes by linking biodiversity, multifunctionality and hydromorphological heterogeneity | Germany | Brazil, Spain, Sweden |
| RESTORESEAS | Marine Forests of animals, plants and algae: nature-based tools to protect and restore biodiversity | Portugal | Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Czech Republic, Germany, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Portugal-Azores, Sweden |
| REVERSAL | Restoring peatlands of the nemoral zone under conditions of varying water supply and quality | Germany | Netherland, Austria, Poland |
| TRANSLOC | Translocations of flora and fauna for conservation and restoration: ecological, evolutionary, and socio-economic impacts at multiple scales | France | Belgium, Morocco, Portugal, Spain Sweden, Switzerland |