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On 10-11 June 2013 DG RTD organised a workshop on "Fostering innovative dialogue between researchers and stakeholders to meet future challenges: Land, Soil, Desertification, Urban and Community-Based Environmental Management". Participants of this workshop were members of the European Commission services, FP7 project COORDINATORS (in Soil & Land Management, Desertification, Community-based approaches to Environmental management, Urban risks, Urban development & Planning) and stakeholders. Those projects have been funded by the Environment Programme of DG RTD, Unit I.3 "Management of Natural Resources". Find attached the 2-days Agenda.
A first Meeting with the FP7 project coordinators took place in October 2012.
During the 2-days meeting 22 Projects have been presented in 4 different sessions:
Soil & Land Management (4): LUPIS, VOLANTE, ECOFINDERS, SOILTREC
Desertification (6): DESIRE/RECARE, PRACTICE / CASCADE, LEDDRA, UNDESERT
Community-based approaches to Environmental management(5): COBRA, COMBIOSERVE, CIVI.NET, COMET-LA, ECOADAPT
Urban risks, Urban development & Planning (7): Megacities, TURAS, GEOURBAN/BRIDGE, CLUVA, SECOA, URBAN-NEXUS, GREEN SURGE
plus 12 presentations from Stakeholders.
Presentations by the European Commission
Soil & Land Management
Presentation Title |
Speaker |
LUPIS: Land Use Policies and Sustainable Development in Developing Countries, Examples from LUPIS |
Floor Brouwer(LEI, Netherlands) |
VOLANTE: Visions of Land use Transitions in Europe |
Marion Bogers (Alterra, Netherlands) |
ECOFINDERS: Soil Biodiversity and Functioning: Lessons/Examples from EcoFINDERS |
Philippe Lemanceau (INRA, France) |
SOILTREC: Quantifying European Soil Functions and Soil Threats through experiments and mathematical modelling at CriticalZone Observatories: Lessons/Examples from SoilTrEC |
Nikolaos Nikolaidis (Technical University of Crete, Greece) |
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Desertification
Presentation Title |
Speaker |
DESIRE/RECARE: Desertification Mitigation and Remediation of Land/Preventing and Remediating degradation of soils in Europe through Land Care
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Coen Ritsema (Alterra, Netherlands) |
PRACTICE: Participatory evaluation of actions to combat desertification: the PRACTICE approach |
Susana Bautista (University of Alicante, Spain |
CASCADE: CASCADE project and its approach involving stakeholders |
Violette Geissen (ALTERRA, Netherlands) |
LEDDRA: Overview of LEDDRA – Three years of research on responses to LEDD |
Eleni Briassoulis ( University of the Aegean, Greece) |
UNDESERT: UNDESERT – a project on degradation and restoration of soils and habitats in West Africa | Jørgen Axelsen (Aarhus University, Denmark) |
Community-based approaches to Environmental management
Presentation Title |
Speaker |
COBRA: Community-based resource management: lessons from the COBRA project |
Jay Mistry (University of London, UK) |
COMBIOSERVE: Participatory research and co-inquiry approaches in community-based management of biocultural diversity: Examples from COMBIOSERVE |
Christoph Schunko (BOKU, Austria) |
CIVI.NET: The capacity of civil society organisations (CSOs) and their networks in community based environmental management |
Bettina Matzdorf (ZALF, Germany) |
COMET-LA: "A learning arena to share local and scientific knowledge facing environmental challenges", |
Maria Del Mar Delgado (University of Cordoba, Spain) |
ECOADAPT: EcoAdapt : adaptation to climate change for local development in model forests of Argentina, Bolivia and Chile. Challenges for supporting local processes at the science-society interface |
Grégoire Leclerc (CIRAD, France) |
Urban risks, Urban development & Planning
Presentation Title |
Speaker |
Urban areas in Europe: a new definition and new land use data |
Hugo Poelman (European Commission, DG REGIO) |
Effective Societal engagement in Horizon 2020 |
Dionysia Lagiou (European Commission, DG RTD) |
Resilience and Urban Risks in Megacities |
Paolo Gasparini (AMRA, Italy) |
TURAS: Transitioning towards Urban Resilience and Sustainability |
Margaret Mulligan (European Business & Innovation Centre Network, Belgium) |
GEOURBAN/BRIDGE: Communities of Practice: Lessons/Examples from BRIDGE and GEOURBAN Projects |
Nektarios Chrysoulakis, (FORTH, Greece) |
CLUVA: Working with Stakeholders to Assess and Mitigate Climate Risks in African Cities - the CLUVA project |
Guy Weets (AMRA, Italy) |
SECOA: Internal communication and external dissemination, Examples from SECOA |
Armando Montanari (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) |
URBAN-NEXUS: Furthering Strategic Urban Research |
Mart Grisel (Platform31, Netherlands) |
GREEN SURGE: Biocultural diversity, green infrastructure and ecosystem services: approach of the GREEN SURGE project |
Cecil Konijnendijk (Kobenhavns University, Denmark) |
From Research to Stakeholder's needs
Stakeholder's presentations |
Annette Piorr (ZALF - Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research, Germany) |
Athena Mourmouris (Ministry of the Environment, Energy and Climate Change, Greece) |
Tania de la FUENTE (CE-UICN - Spanish Committee Union for Conservation of Nature, Spain) |
Francesca Lugeri (ISPRA - Dip. Difesa Suolo, Italy) |
Murielle Eyletters (ULB – Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) |
Esther Barrutia (Loiba Consulting, Belgium) |
Tahia Devisscher / Monica Coll Besa (SEI - Stockholm Environment Institute - Oxford , United Kingdom) |
Angela Meyer (IDC – Organisation for International Dialogue and Conflict Management, Austria) |
Patrice Burger (CARI – Centre d'Actions et de Réalisations Internationales, France) |
Patrice Burger (CARI – Centre d'Actions et de Réalisations Internationales, France) - 2nd presentation |
Athanasios Tsikliras (University of Thessaly and Advisor to the Special Secretariat for Water, Greece) |
Karin Ulmer (APRODEV, Belgium) |
Richard Wakeford (Sustainable Development Research Network Advisory Committee, United Kingdom) |
Despoina Laskaridou (Ministry of the Environment, Urban Planning, Greece) |
Constantinos Liarikos (WWF - World Wide Fund for Nature, Greece) |
Dorthe Nielsen (Eurocities, Belgium) |
Ron Kingham (IES - Institute for Environmental Security, Belgium) |
Anne Miller (University of Oxford, United Kingdom) |
Sebastiano Sanna (Regione Autonoma Friuli-Veneza Giulia, Belgium) |
Masumi Gudka (IUCN - International Union for Conservation of Nature, Kenya) |
Ana Alvarez (NGO REDAF, Argentine |
Bernardo Aguilar-González (Fundación Neotrópica, Costa Rica) |
FP7 project COORDINATORS in Urban Issues, Soil Biodiversity, Desertification and Land Degradation (October 2012)
On 22-23 October 2012 DG RTD organised a meeting of European Commission services with the FP7 project COORDINATORS in Urban Issues, Soil Biodiversity, Desertification and Land Degradation. Those projects have been funded by the Environment Programme of DG RTD, Unit "Management of Natural Resources".
During the 2-days meeting 21 Projects have been presented in 4 different sessions:
Urban soil (4): TIMBRE, CityChlor, HOMBRE, LUPIS
Soil Biodiversity (3): SOILTREC, EcoFINDERs, SOILSERVICE
Urban Risks and urban development(5): SUME , BRIDGE, CLUVA, SECOA, URBAN-NEXUS
Desertification and Land Resources Management (9): SMARTSOIL, CASCADE, DESIRE, PRACTICE, UNDESERT , CATCH-C, VOLANTE, DESURVEY, LEDDRA
Science and Policy Interface
Urban Soil
Soil Biodiversity
Urban Risks and urban development
Presentation Title |
Speaker |
SUME – Sustainable Urban Metabolism for Europe |
Dr. Christof Schremmer (Austrian Institute for Regional Studies and Spatial Planning, Vienna, Austria) |
BRIDGE – Sustainable Urban Planning Decision Support Accounting for Urban Metabolism |
Dr. Nektarios Chrysoulakis (Foundation for Research and Technology, Heraklion, Crete, Greece) |
Fostering an Integrated Approach to Urban Development |
Corinne Hermant-de Callataÿ (DG for Regional Policy, European Commission – DG REGIO) |
CLUVA - Climate Change and Urban Vulnerability in Africa |
Prof. Paolo Gasparini (AMRA - Analisi e Monitoraggio del r ischio ambientale scarl, Napoli, Italy).
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SECOA – Solutions for Environmental Contrasts in Coastal Areas |
Prof. Armando Montanari (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy). |
URBAN-NEXUS – Furthering Strategic Urban Research |
Koen Hollander (Stichting Netherlands Institute for City Innovation Studies, Hague, Netherlands). |
Desertification and Land Resources Management
Presentation Title |
Speaker |
SMARTSOIL – Sustainable farm Management Aimed at Reducing Threats to Soils under Climate Change |
Dr. Kirsten Schelde (Aarhus Universitet, Aarhus, Denmark) |
CASCADE – Catastrophic Shifts in Drylands: How Can We Prevent Ecosystem Degradation? |
Priv.Doz. Dr. Violette Geissen (ALTERRA, Wageningen, Netherlands) |
DESIRE - Desertification Mitigation and Remediation of Land |
Prof. Coen Ritzema (ALTERRA, Wageningen, Netherlands) |
PRACTICE - Prevention and Restoration Actions to Combat Desertification |
Dr. Ramon Vallejo (CEAM Foundation, Paterna, Valencia, Spain) |
UNDESERT - Understanding and Combating Desertification to Mitigate its Impact on Ecosystem Services |
Dr. Jørgen Axelsen (Aarhus Universitet, Aarhus, Denmark) |
CATCH-C – Compatibility of Agricultural Management Practices and Types of Farming in the EU to Enhance Climate Change Mitigation and Soil Health |
Dr. Hein F.M. ten Berge (Wageningen University and Research Centre, Wageningen, Netherlands) |
VOLANTE – Visions of Land use Transitions in Europe |
Marion Bogers (Alterra, Wageningen UR, Wageningen, Netherlands) |
DESURVEY - A Surveillance System for Assessing and Monitoring of Desertification |
Prof. Juan Puigdefábregas Tomás (CSIC, Almeria, ES) |
LEDDRA - Land and Ecosystem Degradation and Desertification: Assessing the Fit of Responses |
Dr. Vassilis Detsis (Harokopeion University, Athens, Greece)
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