Tag: Living Labs
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ALFAwetlands in the 2025 City Nature Challenge
In April 2025, ALFAwetlands actively participated in the City Nature Challenge (CNC), engaging citizens of different European countries in documenting wetland biodiversity and raising awareness about wetlands value. Building upon the success of the 2024 initiative, the 2025 ALFAwetlands CNC expanded to include new Living Lab sites in Rampillon, France, and Tarragona, Spain, alongside the…
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ALFAwetlands Living Lab in Spain
ALFAwetlands contains 9 Living Labs in 10 European countries. One of them, comprising 4 sites, is located in Spain and is managed by the University of Barcelona. Tordera: relict flooded forests in the Mediterranean Basin Roureda de Tordera is a forested area (35 ha) located in the lowlands of the La Tordera River. The uniqueness…
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Meet the University of Barcelona team
The University of Barcelona, a public institution, is renowned for its commitment to quality education, groundbreaking research, and active engagement with society. Founded in 1450, it now fosters a vibrant community of nearly 100,000 members. Researchers participating in the ALFAwetlands project, belong to the Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology, and Environmental Sciences. And they bring…
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EPISODE 3: Living Lab Austria-Hungary
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Peatland monitoring in LL Estonia
Natural peatlands are quite sensitive ecosystems, or, more specifically, terrestrial wetland ecosystems. Their naturally water-logged conditions, on the one hand, prevent plant material from fully decomposing, which means peatlands produce more organic matter than they decompose. Undrained peatlands accumulate Carbon and, in the long run, sequester Carbon. Those acted as “CO2 sinks for millennia, exerting…
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Field visit and Living Lab Open Day
After three fruitful Midterm Conference days from which two were filled with presentations, workshops, discussions and meetings, it was time to go outdoors again! Please also read: ALFAwetlands conference day 1: Excursion to the Hungarian side of the lake Excursion to National Park Neusiedler See-Seewinkel Day 4 of the ALFAwetlands Midterm Conference began at the…
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ALFAwetlands Press Release 2024
ALFAwetlands Midterm Conference ALFAwetlands Midterm Conference took place during 21-24 of May 2024 at the Austrian-Hungarian Living Laboratory site. The main location of the Conference was the Neusiedl See – Seewinkel National Park Visitor Center in Illmitz, Austria. The Conference aimed to review the ALFAwetlands implementation progress, present and exchange current results as well as…
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ALFAwetlands conference day 1: Excursion to the Hungarian side of the lake
The ALFAwetlands conference was kicked off with a day outside, featuring an excursion to the Hungarian side of the Neusiedler lake and ALFAwetlands Austrian-Hungarian Living Laboratory. First, all the partners were welcomed by the National Park Neusiedler See Seewinkel, represented by Arno Cimadom, who shared many interesting facts about the natural dynamics and biodiversity of…
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ALFAwetlands Midterm Conference
ALFAwetlands Midterm Conference took place between 21-24.05.2024 at the Lake Neusiedl – Seewinkel National Park Visitor Center, Illmitz, Austria. The Conference aimed to review the progress of ALFAwetlands implementation, present and exchange current results and discuss further plans; interact with the national and local stakeholders and broader public, raise awareness about the importance of wetlands…
