Description
C4Nature enlarged partnership (PPs + APs)(EN)
Custom made (CRM) database (EN)
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Amplification Room design (infographic and report) (EN)
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Mentorship Services for ownership (methodology) (EN)
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Thematic Working Groups Clustering services (methodology) (EN)
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Joint Institutional Dialogues(EN)
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Policy recommendations/agreements with relevant actors, programmes and initiatives in the Mediterranean region and in Europe(EN)
Thematic information
Priority:
(VI-B_EM_3) MED GovernancePriority specific objective:
ISO6.6. Other actions to support better cooperation governance (all strands)Priority policy objective (Interreg specific objective):
PO6 (ISO1) A better cooperation governanceType of intervention:
173 Enhancing institutional capacity of public authorities and stakeholders to implement territorial cooperation projects and initiatives in a cross-border, transnational, maritime and inter-regional contextPartners (11)
Lead Partner: Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Scienze del Mare
PIC (Participant Identification Code): 999510990
Partner’s ID if not PIC: 91020470109 | IT403000001 | - (EN), - (FR)
Address: Piazzale Flaminio, 00196 Roma, Italy
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Higher education and research organisations
Website: http://www.conisma.it
Total budget: EUR 1 010 780.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 808 624.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 202 156.00
Contractors:
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Name: RONDINO FEDERICA
VAT registration or tax identification number: 13485221009 -
Name: MORRISON LOURDES
VAT registration or tax identification number: IT17048361004 -
Name: Ria Grant Thornton S.p.A
VAT registration or tax identification number: 02342440399 -
Name: GIANNOTTI GIOVANNI
VAT registration or tax identification number: 00993060797 -
Name: SALVI CONGRESSI di S. Vincenzo
VAT registration or tax identification number: 05560091216 -
Name: Morrison Lourdes Angelica
VAT registration or tax identification number: IT17048361004 -
Name: RONDINO FEDERICA
VAT registration or tax identification number: 13485221009
- Agencija za zaštitu životne sredine
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Name: Agencija za zaštitu životne sredine
PIC (Participant Identification Code): 896508048
Partner’s ID if not PIC: 11044786 | 11044786 | - (FR), PIB (EN)
Address: IV Proleterske, 81000 Podgorica, Montenegro
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Sectoral agency
Website: http://www.epa.org.me
Total budget: EUR 189 151.76
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 151 321.40
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 37 830.36
- United Nations Office for Project Services
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Name: United Nations Office for Project Services
Department: Center for Mediterranean Integration (CMI)
PIC (Participant Identification Code): 998003707
Partner’s ID if not PIC: N.a.
Address: Bd Euromediterranée Quai d'Arenc , 13002 Marseille, France
Department address: Bd Euromediterranée Quai d'Arenc , 13002 Marseille, France
Legal status: public
Organisation type: International organisation, EEIG
Website: https://www.cmimarseille.org/
- Office Francais de la Biodiversite
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Name: Office Francais de la Biodiversite
Partner’s ID if not PIC: 13002591902193 | FR103000027 | - (EN), - (FR)
Address: rue Henri Barbusse (Bât. CMCI, 4e étage) , 13001 Marseille, France
Legal status: public
Organisation type: National public authority
Website: http://www.ofb.gouv.fr
Total budget: EUR 522 000.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 417 600.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 104 400.00
- Υπουργείο Γεωργίας, Αγροτικής Ανάπτυξης και Περιβάλλοντος
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Name: Υπουργείο Γεωργίας, Αγροτικής Ανάπτυξης και Περιβάλλοντος
Department: Department of Environment
PIC (Participant Identification Code): 999434845
Partner’s ID if not PIC: CY90002700J | CY103000001 | - (EN), - (FR)
Address: Amfipoleos , 2025 Strovolos Nicosia, Cyprus
Department address: 28th Octovriou Ave., 2414 Engomi, Nicosia, Cyprus
Legal status: public
Organisation type: National public authority
Website: https://moa.gov.cy/?lang=en
Total budget: EUR 195 217.50
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 156 174.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 39 043.50
Contractors:
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Name: HMI & Partners Ltd
VAT registration or tax identification number: CY10197348U
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Name: HMI & Partners Ltd
- IrRADIARE, Lta
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Name: IrRADIARE, Lta
PIC (Participant Identification Code): 994908049
Partner’s ID if not PIC: 503513156 | PT510000018 | - (EN), - (FR)
Address: Rua de Goa, 2795-089 Linda a Velha, Portugal
Legal status: private
Organisation type: SME
Website: https://www.irradiare.com/
Total budget: EUR 603 860.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 483 088.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 120 772.00
Contractors:
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Name: Ana A.Santos, C.Sousa Góis&Ass
VAT registration or tax identification number: 501501169
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Name: Ana A.Santos, C.Sousa Góis&Ass
- Асоциация на парковете в България
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Name: Асоциация на парковете в България
Partner’s ID if not PIC: BG131066056 | BG220000003 | - (EN), - (FR)
Address: Han Asparuh, 1000 Sofia, Bulgaria
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Interest groups including NGOs
Website: http://parks.bg/
Total budget: EUR 334 932.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 267 945.60
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 66 986.40
- Nacionalni inštitut za biologijo
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Name: Nacionalni inštitut za biologijo
Department: Marine Biology Station Piran
PIC (Participant Identification Code): 999650476
Partner’s ID if not PIC: SI83534784 | SI403000015 | - (EN), - (FR)
Address: Večna pot, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Department address: Fornače, 6330 Piran, Slovenia
Legal status: public
Organisation type: National public authority
Website: https://www.nib.si/
Total budget: EUR 612 880.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 490 304.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 122 576.00
Contractors:
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Name: Bojan Hlastec, s.p.
VAT registration or tax identification number: SI51027780
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Name: Bojan Hlastec, s.p.
- Centro de Investigación Ecológica y Aplicaciones Forestales
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Name: Centro de Investigación Ecológica y Aplicaciones Forestales
Department: Water and global change research group
PIC (Participant Identification Code): 998880005
Partner’s ID if not PIC: Q5850011G | ES499000036 | - (EN), - (FR)
Address: Campus UAB – Edifici C, 080193 Bellaterra, Spain
Department address: Campus UAB – Edifici C , 08193 Bellaterra, Spain
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Higher education and research organisations
Website: https://www.creaf.cat/
Total budget: EUR 712 080.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 569 664.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 142 416.00
Contractors:
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Name: FAURA-CASAS AUDITORS C., SL
VAT registration or tax identification number: B58671710
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Name: FAURA-CASAS AUDITORS C., SL
- Agjencia Kombetare e Burimeve Natyrore
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Name: Agjencia Kombetare e Burimeve Natyrore
Department: Directory of RES and Natura
Partner’s ID if not PIC: K71331001H | AL103000004 | - (EN), - (FR)
Address: Blloku “Vasil Shanto”, 1001 Tirana, Albania
Department address: Blloku “Vasil Shanto”, 1001 Tirana, Albania
Legal status: public
Organisation type: National public authority
Website: http://www.akbn.gov.al
Total budget: EUR 57 288.24
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 45 830.59
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 11 457.65
- Εθνικό Μετσόβιο Πολυτεχνείο
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Name: Εθνικό Μετσόβιο Πολυτεχνείο
Department: SCHOOL OF NAVAL ARCHITECTURE & MARINE ENGINEERING
PIC (Participant Identification Code): 999978142
Partner’s ID if not PIC: 099793475 | EL403000001 | - (EN), - (FR)
Address: HEROON POLYTECHNIOU, 15780 Athens, Greece
Department address: HEROON POLYTECHNIOU, 15780 Athens, Greece
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Higher education and research organisations
Website: https://www.ntua.gr/en/
Total budget: EUR 761 810.40
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 609 448.32
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 152 362.08
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Summary
Operation of strategic importance (OSI) or above EUR 5 million
Project acronym: Community4Nature
Project ID: Euro-MED0300730
Project start date: 2023-01-01
Project end date: 2029-09-30
Project status:
ongoingRelevant linked projects:
- - (FR), Interreg MED Biodiversity Protection Community (BPC) (EN) | - (FR), The Interreg MED Biodiversity Protection Community (BPC) consists of the core basis on which C4Nature will launch its activities.The thematic projects realised within the BPC covered a large area of the sectors targeted by C4Nature, e.g. water quality monitoring system, impacts of litter on marine mega fauna, Marine Protected Areas management and biodiversity protection support, ecosystem-based adaptation, etc.
- BPC’s Knowledge Platform will be a pool of gathered results and outputs (funded by the Interreg MED Programme) to start with, as existing knowledge, when building the project’s Adaptive Resources recipient (A1.4). Moreover all achieved results will be fully uptaken and capitalised.
- (EN), - (FR), European Climate Adaptation Platform CLIMATE ADAPT (EN) | - (FR), The protection and restoration of natural resources presuppose adaptation measures for climate change impacts to be put in place and push the frontiers of knowledge on adaptation so that we can gather more and better data on climate-related risks and losses. C4Nature will follow the policies monitored by the European adaptation Strategy, EU Covenant of Mayors, etc., and enhance Climate-ADAPT as the European platform for adaptation knowledge by feeding and using the knowledge repositories provided by the initiative (climate data explorer, Case studies, Countries profile, etc.).In particular, C4Nature aims to explore the development of adaptation strategies at local level, for example by promoting solutions to first assess and then mitigate species vulnerability to climate change. Key cross-sectoral issues will also be addressed in the framework of the project, with a special attention to ecosystem-based adaptation solutions. Activity 2.7 will specifically target this initiative for streamlining C4Nature's results.
- (EN), - (FR), United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030) (EN) | - (FR), The United Nations has proclaimed a Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030) to support efforts to reverse the cycle of decline in ocean Ocean health. This is an important mission which is well complementary to the project aims Indeed, C4Nature will work on transferring scientific knowledge, tools and methodologies to targets involved with nature preservation, restoration, valorisationand climate change issues. In this context, the partnership will be involved by either submitting a proposal for a Decade Activity, that can be an event, a publication, a workshop or a training and participate in forums which will allow networking opportunities and getting involved in the Ocean Decade community by providing and co- creating knowledge. This way we will be able to provide to a wider audience the necessary scientific understanding of the ocean’s responses to pressures and management actions that are fundamental for a sustainable development and implementation..
- (EN), - (FR), European Marine Observation and Data Network (EN) | - (FR), EMODnet observes the sea, processes the data according to international standards and makes this information freely available as interoperable data layers and data products. Considering that C4Nature will collect and consolidate information and data, the project will both contribute and receive information to/from EMODnet.
- In specific,C4Nature will receive data from the Human Activities repository that registers marine (EMODnet) and maritime human activities throughout Europe, from the Biology Data Portal
- monitoring data on temporal and spatial distribution of marine species and the Geology portal (data on coastal behavior, etc.), and capitalize this information into the transference activities targeting improved marine governance ( A2.5)
- (EN), CoastPredict (EN), - (FR) | - (FR), C4Nature, will take advantage of the CoastPredict initiative’s outcomes focusing on the Mediterranean region. CoastPredict's main purpose is to observe and predict the Global Coastal Ocean, providing integrated knowledge for coasts (from events to climate). C4Nature will include this information as a prediction tool for governments to foresee challenges for the natural coastal resources as well as to classify coastal areas based on their level of suitability for the implementation of various sustainable solutions. C4Nature will explore the potential to create a fit-for-purpose coastal prediction system for the end-user communities in the Mediterranean Basin that is directly linked with the outcomes of the coastpredict initiative (A2.5). (EN), - (FR), Interreg MED Sustainable Tourism Community (STC) (EN) | - (FR), The Interreg MED Sustainable Tourism Community (STC) actively works to make Tourism tourism a real driver for inclusive and sustainable development in the Mediterranean region. This community presents also a direct relation with other communities and, therefore, the STC thematic projects results are highly interesting to be included in the C4Nature resources recipient (A1.4) as well as the actors engaged in those communities will be invited to engage into the Amplification Room (A 2.3), if relevant. Therefore, C4Nature will gather information regarding the results and outputs that contributed to the sustainable enhancement of the development of policies for more efficient valorisation of natural resources and cultural heritage in coastal and adjacent maritime areas of a sustainable and responsible coastal and maritime tourism in the MED Area.
- (EN), - (FR), Climate Action Tracker (EN) | - (FR), The Climate Action Tracker is an independent scientific analysis that tracks government climate action while CAT quantifies and evaluates climate change
- mitigation targets, policies and action. In this context, C4Nature will use this observatory to identify local, regional and territorial challenges related to climate change mitigation and adaptation while it will communicate outputs related to policies to CAT. Activity 2.7 will specifically target this initiative for streamlining and communicating C4Nature's results. (EN), - (FR), Interreg MED Renewable Energy Community Project (EN) | - (FR), The contribution of Interreg MED Renewable Energy Community Project was the integration of energy transition strategies with a holistic perspective that allowed guiding decision-making to enhance a better territorial, social and economic developments.
- The Interreg MED Renewable Energy Projects’ main targets were the island and rural areas of the Mediterranean Regions, precisely because of their high vulnerability to climate change, and the emergency actions that small villages/island should take with the scarcity of resources. The Interreg MED Renewable Energy Community promotes the integration of renewable energies in rural and island areas, and both the thematic focus and the stakeholders targeted by this project are relevant to C4Nature.
- Activity 1.4 will gather information regarding the results and outputs regarding the thematic projects realised and dedicated to renewable energies and energy transition model promotion, while the actors will be invited to become part of the enlarged C4Nature community (A2.3)
- (EN), - (FR), Copernicus Emergency Management Service (CEMS) (EN) | - (FR), CEMS is a dynamic system that provides information for emergency response and disaster risk management. C4Nature will ensure its enlarged community acknowledges the service (A1.6) and enhance its use by different societal actors and public authorities, offering useful information to build climate services addressing challenges such as for floods, droughts and forest fires (A 2.5). Relevant outcomes from knowledge exchange with the C4Nature community on the usability of the service will be fed into specific feedback reports, aiming at jointly boosting the use of this information for climate change risk management in the Mediterranean (A 2.7).
- (EN), - (FR), OPPLA (EN) | - (FR), Oppla is the EU Repository of Nature-Based Solutions.It provides a knowledge marketplace, where the latest thinking on natural capital, ecosystem services and nature-based solutions is brought together.Its purpose is to simplify how we share, obtain and create knowledge to better manage our environment.
- It is an open platform that is designed for people with diverse needs and interests - from science, policy and practice; public, private and voluntary sectors; organisations large and small, as well as individuals. C4Nature will both feed into and use the information contained in this repository, contributing with peer reviewed resources (A 1.6) and putting into value the approaches promoted through the transfer activities (A2.5 and A 2.7).
- (EN), - (FR), Biodiversity information system for Europe (EN) | - (FR), The Biodiversity information system for Europe is a partnership between the European Commission and the European Environment Agency. The system encompasses a broad range of aspects, ranging from data and research outputs, policy making features, case studies and indicators. C4Nature will both feed into and use the information contained in the system, contributing with peer reviewed resources (A 1.6) and putting into value the approaches promoted through the transfer activities (A2.5 and A 2.7)
- (EN), - (FR), United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030) (EN) | - (FR), United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration aims to prevent, halt and reverse the ecosystem degradation, objectives coinciding with the mission of C4Nature. Therefore, C4Nature will capitalise the knowledge provided by the initiative (A1.4) and seek for synergies (A2.43) and matching solutions with ecosystem challenges (A2.5) as well as boosting advocacy activities, , through A3.5 (EN), - (FR), Interreg MED Blue Growth Community (EN) | - (FR), Provided theC4Nature Consortium includes three organisations that are partners of the Blue Blue Growth Community HP, the project will be able to generate strong interlinkages. . In specific, C4Nature will utilise the work done by BCG in gathering (A1.4) , consolidating (A1.6), disseminating and transferring resources/project results related to the blue economy (A 2.3). BGC project has done valuable work on interacting with the projects of the Community, studying and understanding the developed results developed. such as factsheets overviewing the most attractive tools developed by the projects of the Community, available in the repositories of marine platform. Furthermore, C4Nature integrated lessons learned from the BGC experiences, such as the “Appropriation approach” fostering uptake of solutions (A 2.4) and other “lessons learnt” basis.
- (EN), - (FR), Interreg MED Green Growth Community (EN) | - (FR), GG Community has produced tools that can contribute to climate change mitigation, one of the themes tackled by C4Nature. The Capitalisation Platform developed by GGC promotes sharing of results and materials and can be a pool of solutions to enrich C4Nature's resource recipient (A1.4) (EN), Alternet (EN), - (FR) | Alternet brings together international natural and social science researchers from 21 European countries to integrate our understanding of biodiversity, ecosystems, and the services they provide to society and to create a platform for meaningful communication with policy-makers and the public. Pro.Ve.Va will link up with science policy initiatives promoted in this framework (A2.3), such as Eklipse, aiming at contributing to filling the gap at the European Science Policy Interface (SPI) by establishing a self- sustainable European support mechanism for evidence-informed policy on biodiversity and ecosystem services. C4Nature partner CREAf is member of its Executive Committee and in charge of the Network Communication and can ensure the interlinkages are sounly established. (EN), - (FR), - (FR), Horizon Europe Green Missions. (EN) | - (FR), EU Missions within Horizon Europe (2021-2027) are a new way to bring concrete solutions to some of our greatest challenges. Mission Restore our ocean and waters will help achieve the marine and freshwater targets of the European Green Deal, such as protecting 30% of the EU’s sea area and restoring marine eco-systems and 25.000 km of free-flowing rivers. As one of its objectives, the Mission will prevent and eliminate pollution by, for example, reducing plastic litter at sea, nutrient losses and use of chemical pesticides by 50%. The C4Nature core community will closely monitor the activities and funded grants under this mission (A1.4) , especially those connected to the Mediterranean sea basin lighthouse. In addition, we will also focus on other relevant Horizon Europe Missions such as “Adaptation to climate change” and “A soil deal for Europe”. he collaborators within these missions will be identified as target groups (A 1.3 ) and establish connections with C4Nature’s enlarged community to share, co-create knowledge and good practice examples and possibly organise joint events and future collaborations (A2.3). C4Nature PP and APs will contact the national mirror groups that work in line with the MIssion experts groups, like for example in the case of Spain these are managed by the Ministry for Economy, industry and Competition and Centre for technological and industrial development (CDTI) and will be contacted though CREAF. (EN), - (FR), BioAgora project (EN) | - (FR), Bio Knowledge Agora: Developing the Science Service for European Research and Biodiversity Policymaking, has the overall aim to connect research results to the needs of environmental policy in a targeted dialogue between science, other knowledge holders and policy actors. This project will establish a dynamic, inclusive and functional Science Service in support of project proposals as for them to develop strong and clear governance arrangements, including how to prioritise requests, and designed to support implementing, monitoring, reporting and reviewing the EU biodiversity strategy and supporting the orchestration of current and future knowledge mechanisms to implement the long-term European strategic biodiversity research agenda.’
- The Bio-Agora project will create an ‘agora’, or gathering place, where existing and future actors can each bring in their expertise, experience and products to share and exchange to support the ratcheting up of biodiversity action and boost the sustainability transformation in the EU. C4Nature will actively engage in this agora, both presenting resources (A1.6) as well as fostering the AR community engagement (A2.3). C4Nature partner CREAF is a partner in the BioAgora project and therefore, even if the project is very recent, a sinergetic link between the projects´agendas can be ensured.
- (EN), - (FR), EUROPABON project (EN) | - (FR), Europa Biodiversity Observation Network: integrating data streams to support policy (EuropaBON) will work with stakeholders to identify user and policy needs for biodiversity monitoring and investigate the feasibility of setting up a center to coordinate monitoring activities across Europe. Together with stakeholders, EuropaBON will assess current monitoring efforts to identify gaps, data and workflow bottlenecks, and analyze cost-effectiveness of different schemes. A set of EuropaBON showcases will demonstrate that its results provide timely and relevant data for EU member states and regions, including policy-relevant indicators to assess progress in biodiversity targets, short-term biodiversity and ecosystem services forecasts, and scenarios that support IPBES and other assessments. C4Nature will take up the indicators produced in the resource recipient (A 1.6) and boost its adoption through its specific activities targeting its enlarged community (A2.4). C4Nature partner CREAF is a partner in the EUROPABON project, ensuring transference of knowledge (EN), - (FR), WISE (EN) | - (FR), WISE ids the European information gateway to water issues, concerning both freshwater and marine environments.WISE-Freshwater provides information and data on the state of Europe’s rivers, lakes, groundwaters, on the pressures affecting them, on the measures and actions taken to protect and conserve the aquatic environment, while WISE-Marine provides access to information and data on the state of Europe’s seas, on the pressures affecting them, and on the actions being taken to protect and conserve the marine environment.
- C4Nature will both feed into and use the information contained in the system, contributing with peer reviewed resources and putting into value the information managed through the transfer activities.(A 1.6) and putting into value the solutions promoted through the transfer activities (A2.5 and A 2.7) (EN), Forest Information System for Europe (FISE) (EN), - (FR) | - (FR), The Forest Information System for Europe (FISE) is a one stop shop for data and information to support forest-related policies in Europe. The platform aims to allow clear, easy-to-use, open access to updated information about the state and trends in Europe’s forests through meaningful data and narratives. C4Nature will capitalise the information stored (A 1.4) and actively promote its use in the community (A2.3). C4Nature will specially focus on ecosystem restoration and the key potential of forests for biodiversity conservation (A2.5), as well as feeding relevant new resources into the system (A2.7). (EN)
Total budget/expenditure: EUR 4 999 999.90
Total EU funding (amount): EUR 3 999 999.91
Total EU funding (co-financing rate): 80.00%
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PSR 1: Organisations with increased institutional capacity due to their participation in cooperation activities across borders, Measurement unit: Organisations
Project part of European Union Macro-Regional or Sea Basin Strategy: EUSALP
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Information regarding the data in keep.eu on the programme financing this project
Financing programme
2021 - 2027 Interreg VI-B EURO Mediterranean (EURO MED)
Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme
2025-10-02
No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)
78 / 78 (100%)
No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)
733 / 733 (100%)
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