1. Demonstrate and test together with key local stakeholders (i.e., local communities, private landowners, municipalities, state forests, forest and nature agencies, restoration SMEs, NGOs etc.) successful restoration approaches in 12 large-scale demonstrators (‘demos’) across Europe. The demos, which face different challenges and pressures, aim to restore the structure, composition, and functionality of forest habitats (including soils) through a variety of measures and management forms that integrate restoration as much as possible into ‘normal’ forest and landscape management.

2. Deliver evidence-based practical knowledge on sustainably and successfully managing, governing, and financing restoration by learning about barriers and enablers for restoration from the wealth of past and ongoing forest restoration projects and activities from across Europe and beyond.

3. Improve societal support for restoration and benefits from restoration by fully considering societal demands and expectations of restoration and co-designing adequate and favourable approaches and plans through inclusive and transformative stakeholder and community engagement.

4. Launch an interactive online Marketplace, where market agents (landowners, funders etc.) can post calls for or offers of sustainable restoration actions (in terms of biodiversity and carbon gain and social acceptance) and find insights into sustainable financing that take cost-effectiveness, socio-economic benefits, involvement, and just access into account.

5. Deliver a multi-language Forest Ecosystem Restoration Gateway that serves as the central knowledge platform for anyone interested or working in restoration to obtain evidence-based guidance on forest restoration, including restoration-support tools, manuals and guidelines.

6. Create a large and powerful multi-stakeholder network and movement for the development, uptake, and upscaling of transformative forest restoration approaches and actions. We engage with many actors, including the 90 regional to international associate project partners (signed letters of support) who represent key stakeholders and who in one way or another have influence on the majority of European forest landscapes (e.g., agricultural and nature protection ministries and government agencies from over 20 European countries, landowner associations, certifiers, funders, NGOs etc.).

Abstract

SUPERB pursues the overall goal to create a lasting enabling environment for transformative change towards large-scale forest and forest landscape restoration, which empowers decision makers to take just and informed decisions for restoration of biodiversity, ecosystem services and carbon sequestration in a manner that minimises region specific trade-offs and maximises synergies between ecosystem services. SUPERB develops and synthesises a multidisciplinary, practical, and scientific restoration knowledge basis and makes it publicly available.

In 12 large-scale demonstrators across Europe, we will showcase best practices responding to key forest restoration and adaptation challenges on some hundreds of hectares per demo and with the potential for immediate upscaling to over one million hectares in 10-15 years.

For large scale restoration to be successful, many actors from different sectors and disciplines must behave synergistically and in a mutually reinforcing way. We will speed up transformative change and further upscaling through innovative stakeholder involvement across scales to ensure the favorability and uptake of the proposed approaches.

A comprehensive multi-language online Forest Ecosystem Restoration Gateway will guide stakeholders to find answers to their restoration questions, advise them on how to deal with barriers and enablers and provide access to easily applicable and comprehensible tools and materials that support restoration, e.g., best practices for forest restoration or the development of scalability plans, a tree species selection application, an innovative funding guide, and much more.

The Gateway will also host a restoration Marketplace, where market agents, e.g. potential funders and landowners, can agree on bids for restoration projects. SUPERB will boost and measure its impact through its extensive and systematically enlarged stakeholder communities and networks, to ensure the relevance of the project outputs and their positive uptake.

Azioni progettuali

(in grassetto quelle coordinate da DAGRI-UNIFI)

WP1 Project management

WP2 Stakeholder engagement, communication and outreach

WP3 Practical knowledge

WP4 Finances

WP5 Governance and Society

WP6 Biodiversity and ecosystem management

Task 6.3 Cost-efficient systems of monitoring, reporting and verification for quantifying biodiversity and ecosystem services
Task 6.5 Forward projecting the achievable biodiversity and ecosystem services goals

WP7 Demos

WP8 Further upscaling

Task 8.2.2. Interface design and implementation

Principali risultati conseguiti

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Durata

Inizio: 01/12/2021

Conclusione: 30/11/2025

Proroga:

Ente finanziatore e bando

European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme

Call H2020-LC-GD-2020

Sito web progetto

https://forest-restoration.eu/

Altri siti web d’interesse

https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101036849

Ultimo aggiornamento

11.08.2023

SUPERB | Systemic solutions for upscaling of urgent ecosystem restoration for forest related biodiversity and ecosystem services

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