Third MAG meeting in Croatia: progress and challenges
Public Institution Nature Park Medvednica
Lively discussion took place at Institute for Development and International Relations where we held our second MAG meeting.This time we've invited more stakeholders and we had also representatives from the city [...]
First Multi-Actor Group meeting in Bizkaia
Diputacion Foral de Bizkaia
Agents from different fields involved with payment for ecosystem services in Bizkaia met within the framework of the SINCERE project. The first MAG meeting of the Bizkaia was organised in collaboration with the Union of Foresters of Southern Europe [...]
Concept for a new Russian Forest Code discussed and agreed by Scientific Council
On 28th of November, 2019, SINCERE partner CEPF RAS hosted an Extended Session of the Scientific Council of the Russian Academy of Science (RAS) concerning the concept for a new […]
Building the foundation for innovation in Flanders, Belgium
Natuurinvest
Innovation can only work when it is conceived to respond to real needs in a specific context, and is supported by those for whom it is developed. In collaboration with the University of Leuven and the Flemish Agency for Nature and Forest, Natuurinvest will test the mechanism of a reverse auction [...]
Rialb 2021: forests and water, source of life
Forest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia
Centre de Proprietat Forestal
There was great alignment of different stakeholders around the necessity to implement an innovation mechanism to value forest management and its direct relation with the amount and quality of water. [...]
Solutions for co-operation in forestry and nature tourism
Juhani Pyykkönen
Senior adviser bioeconomy
The Finnish Forest Centre (SMK), Finland
The idea of landscape as a service is not new anymore, but practical solutions are still lacking. The need is clear. Kuusamo-Ruka tourism area [...]
Finding Solutions in Collaboration – Selecting Areas And Increasing Awareness
The Finnish Forest Centre
Realizing the model of paying for landscape and ecosystem services has three critical issues, namely selecting the forest areas to be compensated, organising the fund collection and payments, and increasing awareness of the activities. [...]
“Reconnecting people with their nearby forests can help encourage more active and healthy lifestyles, as well as enhance support for forest conservation”
Kate Reilly
EU Programme Officer Nature-Based Solutions
IUCN European Regional Office
“Showing society the entire process of developing a PES scheme is the starting point”
Teresa Baiges / Jose Antonio Bonet
Forest Engineer / Researcher
Centre de Proprietat Forestal (CPF) /
Forest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia (CTFC),
Spain
Reversed auctions for enhancing biodiversity in Denmark
Suzanne Elizabeth Vedel
Danish Forest Association (DFA), Denmark
The second MAG meeting took place at the University of Copenhagen and gathered forest owners, policy makers and a broad variety of other stakeholders [...]
“It is important to find the right balance between protection and production”
Tanja Blindbæk Olsen
Head of Political Department
Danish Forest Association (DFA), Denmark
New approaches to meet the demand’s needs
Consorzio Comunalie Parmensi (Borgo TV)
Stakeholders met in the Tuscan-Emilian community of Borgo Val di Taro to consider the production of their local mushrooms, from supply-oriented to demand-oriented approach [...]
“The path to innovation on forest ecosystem services is a combination of preciseness, adapted management, creativity and communication”
Urs Schroff
Project leader
Pan Bern AG, Switzerland
Swiss stakeholders discuss spiritual ecosystem services at second meeting
Pan Bern AG
Andreas Bernasconi reports on the second stakeholder meeting for the Swiss case study which is working to strengthen the connection between people and the forest [...]
“We need to understand how and why forests might be important for others”
Constanza Parra
Professor Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
KU Leuven - University of Leuven, Belgium
Rialb 2021: forests for water in Catalonia
Forest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia
Centre de Proprietat Forestal
There was great alignment of different stakeholders around the necessity to implement an innovation mechanism to value forest management and its direct relation with the amount and quality of water. [...]
“SINCERE could lay the foundations for a new European forest related policy”
Georg Winkel
Coordinator SINCERE and Head of Resilience Programme at EFI
The European Forest Institute (EFI), Finland
What is the forest worth?
Consorzio Comunalie Parmensi (Borgo TV)
Stakeholders met in the Tuscan-Emilian community of Borgo Val di Taro to consider the production of their local mushrooms, from supply-oriented to demand-oriented approach [...]
“Being able to use attractive nature areas is essential for the tourism”
Liisa Tyrväinen
Research professor on nature-based tourism and recreation
Natural Resources Institute Finland (LUKE), Finland
Poplar and biodiversity: what challenges lie ahead?
Etifor
Protected areas managers of Eastern Lombardy met at Mincio Regional Park to learn from pratices and to figure out why and how should they take actions to sustain the conservation of their areas. The sinergy between SINCERE and Ecopay Connect 2020, a local project financed[...]