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What makes “success” when it comes to #FreshwaterEcosystemRestoration?

The Ecosystem services approach and natural cost accounting is helping quantify success by translating costs and benefits into monetary terms.

Is that the best measure?

Prof. Jerry Davis (Prof. of Business Administration and Sociology at the University of Michigan) suggests we might be in a better place if we don’t allow Finance to be the master metaphor for how we view the world.

So while we champion progress in considering ecosystem services provided by our environment in monetary terms, let’s ask ourselves: Does further "financializing" our environment allow us to ignore meeting human needs that can't be quantified in Euros?”

How do YOU measure success?

Let us know!

Share your ideas in the comments below???? Tag someone you consider a success who is contributing to freshwater restoration in your country.

This week the #SELINAworkshop is taking place in Bulgaria!

SELINA (Horizon Europe) has just started its workshop focusing on seeds of change.

Seeds of change are examples of successful and innovative projects and initiatives integrating biodiversity and ecosystem services at a systemic level. The aim of SELINA is to find and connect such seeds of change so they trigger transformative change.

An example from the workshop – the cooling effect of green surfaces on urban heat islands, caused by artificial surfaces, is being measured with measuring heat radiation with a drone!

EcoAdvance (Horizon Europe) is trying something similar by finding and connecting examples of successful and innovative freshwater ecosystem restoration projects and identifying the people who make difference in their countries and enable success in #FreshwaterRestoration.

Ildikó Arany (Centre for Ecological Research, Hungary), participating in the SELINA workshop will be integrating the two thinking processes and leveraging both approaches to bring the greening of Europe into focus.

Looking forward to the last 2 days of the workshop!

Learn more about the workshop and the SELINA project: https://lnkd.in/en7mtVua

EcoAdvance at the BIOEAST congress

EcoAdvance visited the High level international BIOEAST congress - “Setting up a research and innovation agenda for the BIOEAST Macro-Region” in Warsaw, 15-16 MARCH 2023!

The high level international BIOEAST Congress is organised in the framework of the BIOEAST Initiative and under the auspices of the Polish Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development with the support of the Horizon 2020 BIOEASTsUP project.

The congress aims to present a newly developed macro-regional Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (BIOEAST SRIA) and 11 bioeconomy concept papers developed based on the assessment of the eleven BIOEAST countries’ bioeconomies.

EcoAdvance project represented by Zuzana Boukalova (METCENAS) is trying to set the clustering activities with the stakeholders of the BIOEAST under the thematic area Freshwater-based Bioeconomy and EU Mission Restore our Ocean & Waters.

Thank you for the excellent congress and Barna Kovacs PhD for the wonderful presentation!

#Freshwater #Bioeconomy

Alert! Coming up next week!

Global Water Summit happens in New York at the UN!

It's an opportunity to merge with the power of the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration and the world-wide effort to push serious accountability for lofty restoration goals.
Organized by the University of Évora, the Society for Ecological Restoration and Water4All.

You can join right from your desk!
The focus is on building synergies with the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration.
It's an opportunity to be heard in the interactive audience dialog.

Hear the voices of Europe: Panagiotis Balabanis, Helge Elisabeth Zeitler, Noémie PLUMIER, Ana Mendes

People who are making a difference and creating successes.
But how will the words translate into action?

Register to join!
March 23, 2:00 pm (NY time zone):
https://lnkd.in/e_5q3S5U

#FreshwaterRestoration #UNWater

Kick-off meeting of DALIA!

(Danube Region Water Lighthouse Action; Topic: HORIZON-MISS-2021-OCEAN-02-02)

The DALIA project shows how much PEOPLE MAKE A DIFFERENCE when it comes to success in #FreshwaterRestoration.

EcoAdvance (Horizon Europe) Partner Zuzana Boukalova addresses 9 demonstration sites from Danube basin region, keen to discuss the multidisciplinary approaches leading to the successful restoration of the Danube catchment environment and the approaches needed to improve the restoration of fresh and transitional water ecosystems.

WHAT projects and scientific research has made a difference in your country?

To join and share with us WHO YOU THINK makes a difference to freshwater restoration: https://lnkd.in/df5niGJp

@Marton Pesel (coordinator of DALIA) – thank you for a wonderful meeting!

Learn more about the DALIA project: http://dalia-danube.eu/