Following the kick-off @JRC @ec.europa.eu Italy, @guardias.bsky.social & @onestopproject.bsky.social are off to a great start 🏞️🎉
With @erinninnovation.bsky.social Im excited to lead GuardIAS Knowledge Management & Knowledge Transfer to ensure results are transferred to end users maximising impact 🔄📈

Is your region ready to restore its lakes and build a sustainable blue economy?

💶 Apply now for a EU grant of up to €54,000 to develop an action plan for lake restoration

Information Webinar: February 10, 2025
Application Deadline: March 31, 2025

👉 Learn more & apply: futurelakes.eu/calls

🚀 The FutureLakes website has launched! ✨

🌍 Discover 10 innovations in lake restoration

🌟 Explore 6 European lake basins that showcase successful restoration

Join us on this journey with FutureLakes and stay tuned for more!

👉 www.futurelakes.eu 🌐

#ReducePollution #RestoreNature #BlueEconomy

Done!

One, led by EstherCarmen provides a “A transformations framework for mainstreaming a nature-based solutions approach”, in the Nature-Based Solutions journal www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

One, led by Alhassan Ibrahim is on “Raising standards for stakeholder engagement in Nature-based Solutions: Navigating the why, when, who and how” in Environmental Science & Policy journal www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Our new OTSI report explores the various types of 𝗱𝗲𝗯𝘁 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 available and highlights their purposes, target beneficiaries, and practical applications in supporting Nature-based Solutions.

🔗 Check it out: project-merlin.eu/outcomes/off...

Job alert: Tenure-track position at #BOKU in Hydrobiology and aquatic ecosystem management with focus on Benthic Invertebrate Ecology
@bokuvienna.bsky.social

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The @futurelakes.bsky.social EU project will be using this framework for evaluating #nature_restoration needs as one element of our "Roadmap for Upscaling European Lake Restoration". Other elements will include societal and economic need and impact on #MissionOcean goals.

#MissionLakes

@merlin-project.bsky.social
#NatureRestorationLaw
#FreeFlowingRivers

3/4 Friday #BES2024, #RosettaBlackman gives a talk on measuring #aquatic #environments: Upscaling the spatial resolution of biotic index (session: Conservation Science and Policy, 10:30 am) #eDNA #biodiversity 🧬🔬💧🌍🌐

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In this short YouTube video we show you one of our MERLIN case studies on #DamRemoval in the Deba River, Spain. Check it out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7ND...

We've set up this starter pack for those interested in lake restoration...
go.bsky.app/2fWwCp5

Nice paper! I've definitely reduced my reading this year, but I found this book (free to download) very useful for thinking about the approaches to trigger transformative change in ecosystem restoration... especially the concept of "radical incrementalism"
greatmindshift.org

@futurelakes.bsky.social is a HE Mission Ocean & Waters project - not explicitly Marine - focused on large European lakes, but supporting the Mission Ocean & Waters goals and reducing pollution to the marine environment.

We are looking for companies with an innovative product or service for freshwater ecosystems. If you are one, apply now for the 𝗠𝗘𝗥𝗟𝗜𝗡 𝗜𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 🏆

📅 Deadline: 13 December 2024 (17:00 CET)

🔗 Application links and more information: project-merlin.eu/mia-2025.html

Join us for a webinar on the contributions of four Horizon 2020 projects – MERLIN, REST-COAST, SUPERB project, and WaterLANDS – in advancing the new #NatureRestorationLaw.

📅 10 December 2024
🕒 15:00 - 16:30 CET

🔗 Register now: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...

#EUGreenDeal #Horizon2020 #NRL #GDSO

Lets not forget about #lakes in conservation. Of all the stillwater habitats lakes are most important for freshwater biodiversity & hence deserve more attention. New research just published: link.springer.com/article/10.1... @dralanlaw.bsky.social