The fifth Italian Community of Practice (CoP) meeting took place on 29 April 2026, organised by SELINA partners from the University of Trento. The meeting brought together representatives from the private sector, research institutions and non-profit organisations to explore how ecosystem evidence can better support collaboration between public and private actors in environmental decision-making. The session focused on the theme “Gove...

The fourth Community of Practice in Italy was held on 12 March 2026, organised by SELINA’s partners from the University of Trento, to define activities for the 2026–2027 period and support the Community’s ongoing mission to facilitate knowledge exchange across research, planning and practice. The session opened with an introduction to the overall theme that will guide the Community of Practice over the next two years, which is unders...

The second Croatian Community of Practice (CoP) meeting was held on 28 November 2025 in the Nature Park Žumberak – Samobor Mountains. The second meeting was arranged around recent progress in Croatia in the fields of ecosystem accounting, ecosystem services assessments and biodiversity protection. The meeting agenda was jointly shaped by CoP members and centred on sharing successful projects, ongoing national developments and r...

On 4 November 2025, a Swedish Community of Practice (CoP) workshop was held at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm under the “Digital tools to support ecosystem services and biodiversity in planning” theme. The workshop brought together Swedish CoP members and was organised as part of the collaboration between the REPLAN and SELINA projects. Participants represented municipalities, regional actors, and ecological consulta...

On 5 September 2024, a Swedish Community of Practice (CoP) workshop on “Seeds of Change” was held as a joint event between SELINA and REPLAN. The workshop focused on transformative change to strengthen ecosystem services and biodiversity, encouraging participants to share initiatives and experiences that can be seen as “Seeds of Change”. After a welcome and participant introductions, the session presented the REPLAN project and the REPLAN–S...

On 5 February 2025, an online multi-lateral CoP webinar and workshop on ‘Ecosystem service mapping for planning’ was jointly arranged by SELINA and REPLAN, to share experiences and perspectives on the subject among three countries: Sweden, Slovenia and Norway. The demand for assessing and mapping ecosystem services is rising to support planning and decision-making. However, challenges remain in selecting methodologies, meeting decision-makers'...

On 4 December 2025, a multi-lateral CoP webinar on ‘Green Infrastructure in various EU countries and its potential relation to the Nature Restoration Regulation’ was jointly arranged by SELINA partners from Sweden, Spain and France, led by Sweden. It was organised as a joint webinar between SELINA and REPLAN, encouraging cross-project exchange and discussion among researchers, practitioners and policy representatives f...

The fourth Slovenian Communities of Practice (CoP) was held on 14 November 2026 at the Triglavska Roza Information Centre, Bled, and focused on biodiversity, ecosystems, and ecosystem services. Hosted by SELINA’s partners from The Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU), the gathering centred on two guiding questions: how national and local ecosystem service carbon sequestration (ES CS) assessments can bes...

The first Norwegian Community of Practice (CoP) was held at the beginning of October 2025, and it was focused on discussing recent results from modelling regulation and maintenance ecosystem services at the national scale. Statistics Norway shared four presentations, covering topics such as air filtration, local and global climate regulation, as well as flood protection ecosystem services. A key focus of the exchange was the methodolog...

The second German Communities of Practice (CoP) was held between 18-19 September 2025 at the Leibniz University Hannover (LUH), Germany, and it was focused on the “Knowledge transfer from ecosystem services, natural capital and biodiversity research”. Around 25 participants comprised representatives from a wide range of institutions, including research organisations such as IÖR Dresden, ZALF Müncheberg, IZT Berlin, UFZ Leipzig a...

The fourth meeting of the Belgian Platform for Transformative Change took place on 23 October 2025 at Vrijplaats in Ghent. Organised by our partners from VITO, the gathering focused on exploring how learning spaces can serve as catalysts for societal transformation, providing a platform for reflection, exchange, and co-creation among participants from diverse institutions and backgrounds. The session opened with an interactive exerci...

This press release was published by EurekAlert! and AlphaGalileo. The SELINA project announces the launch of a newly established section on its public project website, showcasing the Communities of Practice (CoPs) and their mission to promote collaborative learning and knowledge integration across Europe. The Communities of Practice initiative serves as a vital platform for knowledge exchange, learning, and stakeholder engage...