Protecting the Area's Resources Through Researched Innovative Demonstration of Good Examples

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB North Sea

Date of latest update: 2024-09-18

Description

Description (EN):

Our transnational partnership (researchers, farm advisors, conservationists, hunters, civil servants and farmers) will show-case best practice models at 10 farmland demonstration sites in four NSR nations to show how new management solutions can improve biodiversity and ecosystem services by up 30% in four years, and how these can be transferred across all regions of the NSR and the EU. Our overall objective is to bring about a change in behaviours and working practices, in particular in regards to the uptake of agri-environment schemes, for the long-term sustainable management of farmland ecosystems. To achieve this goal we will work and interact with a wide range of rural key stakeholders, build capacity among all regional and national environment agencies of the NSR, and promote information exchange between them. Over 7% of each demonstration site will be enhanced with existing and new high-quality wildlife habitats using tailored local management plans complemented by winter feeding and predation management. We will develop and field test new transnational monitoring protocols to provide evidence that our new solutions work, and to promote efficient tools for long-term cross-border comparison of conservation measures. We will complement our multidisciplinary approach by collecting and disseminating new socio-economic information on rural stakeholder behaviour which is necessary to improve the uptake and efficiency of agri-environment schemes across the EU member states.

Achievements (EN):

The NSR Interreg PARTRIDGE project successfully demonstrated that farmland areas providing at least 7% high-quality wildlife habitats (mainly paid for by agri-environmental schemes, AES), have significantly higher numbers and diversity of farmland indicator species than comparable farmland areas with less than 5% wildlife habitats (the NSR status quo). We successfully influenced AES policy in five countries (EN, SCOT, D, NL & BE), by either introducing new habitat measures, or improving the quality of existing ones. We expect our results to continue to inform future AES policy and help meet the EU’s and Britain’s Biodiversity Targets on farmland. Between 2016-2023, more than 70 project farmers and hunters, enthused by our demo site managers, implemented an additional 4% of good and high-quality habitats (mainly PARTRIDGE flowerblock mixes) at ten 500-ha demo sites across the NSR (two in each participating country, except DK). We used the grey partridge as our flagship species, because 1) partridge-friendly measures benefit arable biodiversity generally, and 2) farmers and hunters like grey partridges. We published the evidence for our approach in the booklet 'Farming with Nature' in 2020 in English, Dutch, Flemish, and Danish. From January 2020 we also promoted our strategy in DK. Of 10 sites, seven had 10% of their area in wildlife-friendly habitats by project end. Progress was monitored using key indicators to show that our measures work. The demonstration sites were compared with 10 reference sites, where the same data was collected but with no additional management measures introduced. We involved 36 research institutes and 672 researchers, students and volunteers in our monitoring activities. Key results were published in a final report in 2023 and communicated widely. To inform and enthuse stakeholders (farmers, hunters, advisers, NGO's, local, regional, national, EU and UK agri-policy makers & influencers) to adopt our measures and overall approach across the NSR, we held 250 farm walks, informing 3600 people directly. We actively promoted dialogue within 7 farmer/hunter clusters centred around our demo sites which continue beyond our project. Across the NSR over 1300 farmers have planted our PARTRIDGE mixes and more than 36km of beetle banks have been built in the NL because of our project. To ensure that our measures find their way into policy across the NSR, we actively lobbied for their inclusion in future national AES. We attended & organised events such as national & international grey partridge symposia in the NL, D & HU, the EU Green Week, EU parliamentary intergroup meetings and 1:1 policy meetings covering high-level CAP discussions. This resulted in our PARTRIDGE mixes being added to as a new AES measure in the NL, Flanders and Scotland. In England and Lower Saxony, Germany an existing measure was upgraded to our mix. We successfully introduced beetle banks to the NL and a new in-field stubble plot option in Lower Saxony. To inform the wider public about the farmland biodiversity crisis and how to address it, we ran an intensive media campaign (we published more than 500 articles), reaching over 10.5 million people via the printed press, blogs, storymaps, social media, regional & national TV & Radio and direct engagement at conferences, exhibitions, online talks, workshops and a policy influencer event in Brussels. We published and promoted four national & one international in-depth stakeholder interview reports & held an online farmer/hunter survey in 2021, with 1700 responses. We published the key findings in a final report detailing how AES can be improved for farmers.

Website: https://northsearegion.eu/partridge

Thematic information

Sustainable management of natural resources Agriculture and fisheries and forestry

Specific Objective: Develop new methods for the long-term sustainable management of North Sea ecosystems

Thematic Objective: (06) preserving and protecting the environment and promoting resource efficiency by:

Investment Priority: (06d) Protecting and restoring biodiversity and soil and promoting ecosystem services, including through Natura 2000, and green infrastructure

Partners (7)

Lead Partner: Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust

Address: Loddington House. Main Street, LE7 9XE Loddington, United Kingdom

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.gwct.org.uk

Total budget: EUR 2 043 008.00

ERDF budget: EUR 1 021 504.00

Vogelbescherming Nederland

Name: Vogelbescherming Nederland

Address: Boulevard 12, 3707 BM Zeist, 3707 BM Zeist, Netherlands

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.vogelbescherming.nl

Total budget: EUR 575 239.00

ERDF budget: EUR 287 619.00

Denmarks Jaegerforbund

Name: Denmarks Jaegerforbund

Address: Molsvej 34, 8410 Roende, Denmark

Legal status: public

Website: http://hwww.jaegerforbundet.dk

Total budget: EUR 49 960.00

ERDF budget: EUR 24 980.00

Georg-August-Universität

Name: Georg-August-Universität

Address: Bürgerstraße 50, D-37073 Göttingen, Germany

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/1.html

Total budget: EUR 1 000 761.00

ERDF budget: EUR 500 380.00

Odling I Balans

Name: Odling I Balans

Address: Franzengatan 6, SE 105 33 Stockholm, Sweden

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.odlingibalans.com

Total budget: EUR 88 150.00

ERDF budget: EUR 44 075.00

Instituut voor Natuur- en Bosonderzoek

Name: Instituut voor Natuur- en Bosonderzoek

Address: Gaverstraat 4, 9500 Geraardsbergen, Belgium

Legal status: public

Website: https://www.inbo.be/

Total budget: EUR 1 301 732.00

ERDF budget: EUR 650 866.00

Vlaamse Landmaatschappij

Name: Vlaamse Landmaatschappij

Address: Velodroomstraat 28, 8200 Brugge, Belgium

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.vlm.be

Total budget: EUR 707 346.00

ERDF budget: EUR 353 673.00

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Vogelbescherming Nederland

Protecting the Area's Resources Through Researched Innovative Demonstration of Good Examples

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Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust

Protecting the Area's Resources Through Researched Innovative Demonstration of Good Examples

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Danish Hunters' Association

Protecting the Area's Resources Through Researched Innovative Demonstration of Good Examples

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Georg August University

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Farming Balance

Protecting the Area's Resources Through Researched Innovative Demonstration of Good Examples

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Research Institute for Nature and Forest

Protecting the Area's Resources Through Researched Innovative Demonstration of Good Examples

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Vlaamse Landmaatschappij

Protecting the Area's Resources Through Researched Innovative Demonstration of Good Examples

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Summary

Project name (EN): Protecting the Area's Resources Through Researched Innovative Demonstration of Good Examples

Project acronym: PARTRIDGE

Project start date: 2016-11-30

Project end date: 2023-06-30

Project status: closed

Relevant precedent projects:

SOLABIO

Relevant subsequent projects:

PepsiCo FAB, GWCT Scotland
BOOST, Erasmus+
Vogelvriendelijk Boeren, ELFPO

Relevant linked projects:

BEESPOKE
Contracts2.0, Horizon 2020
FABulous Farmers

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 7 793 271.00

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 3 896 632.00

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, .

Documents

Documents on this project are listed below, and organised by category. Please note field "Data source", attached to each document. Keep.eu users are free to use these documents as long as they mention the data source and keep.eu.

Reports

How to Improve Agri-environment Scheme Uptake and Provision

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://northsearegion.eu/partridge

Publication date: 2024-12-03

Document date: 2023-06-30

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Transnational Report

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://northsearegion.eu/partridge

Publication date: 2024-12-03

Document date: 2021-11-17

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Landscape Change on Sites in the PARTRIDGE Project

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://northsearegion.eu/partridge

Publication date: 2024-12-03

Document date: 2023-06-30

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Results from the monitoring programme of the Interreg North Sea Region PARTRIDGE project

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://northsearegion.eu/partridge

Publication date: 2024-12-03

Document date: 2023-06-30

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Beheerovereenkomsten Voor Akkerfauna

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://northsearegion.eu/partridge

Publication date: 2024-12-03

Document date: 2020-06-30

Languages: nl

Attachment file: Download

Studies / surveys

Agri-environmental Schemes for Arable Wildlife

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Study / survey

Data source: https://northsearegion.eu/partridge

Publication date: 2024-12-03

Document date: 2023-06-30

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Opinies over het Nederlandse stelsel van Agrarisch Natuur- en Landschapsbeheer

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Study / survey

Data source: https://northsearegion.eu/partridge

Publication date: 2024-12-03

Document date: 2021-02-28

Languages: nl

Attachment file: Download

Videos / films

A Day in the Life

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://northsearegion.eu/partridge

Publication date: 2024-12-03

Document date: 2021-09-10

Languages: en

Europees Interreg Project PARTRIDGE

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://northsearegion.eu/partridge

Publication date: 2024-12-03

Document date: 2019-02-04

Languages: nl, en

Hare counting with the Interreg PARTRIDGE Project

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://northsearegion.eu/partridge

Publication date: 2024-12-03

Document date: 2022-03-08

Languages: en

PARTRIDGE – Interreg North Sea Region

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://northsearegion.eu/partridge

Publication date: 2024-12-03

Document date: 2020-04-09

Languages: nl

Partridge mix on the Rotherfield Estate

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://northsearegion.eu/partridge

Publication date: 2024-12-03

Document date: 2022-01-27

Languages: en

PARTRIDGE Project

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://northsearegion.eu/partridge

Publication date: 2024-12-03

Document date: 2020-08-13

Languages: en

PARTRIDGE Project | Welcome | Saving grey partridges across arable farmland in Europe

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://northsearegion.eu/partridge

Publication date: 2024-12-03

Document date: 2020-08-12

Languages: nl, en

PARTRIDGE projectfilm (ondertiteld)

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://northsearegion.eu/partridge

Publication date: 2024-12-03

Document date: 2019-11-28

Languages: nl

Playback Surveys Vlog

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://northsearegion.eu/partridge

Publication date: 2024-12-03

Document date: 2022-03-23

Languages: en

Why and how to create a wildlife flower plot for partridges and other farmland wildlife

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://northsearegion.eu/partridge

Publication date: 2024-12-03

Document date: 2021-11-22

Languages: en

Wintering finches feeding on PARTRIDGE flower plots at Oude Doorn demo site in the Netherlands

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://northsearegion.eu/partridge

Publication date: 2024-12-03

Document date: 2017-11-23

Languages: en

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Financing programme

2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB North Sea

Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme

2023-02-14

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

73 / 73 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

871 / 871 (100%)

Notes on the data

Information provided by the Programme. Achievements were retrieved by Interact from the Programme website (http://www.northsearegion.eu/), or a website directly linked from it, on 2021-09-20 and 2023-01-12.

The financial data featured in keep.eu for this programme, it's projects and its partners is not exact and should be taken as a reference only.

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