An interdisciplinary
research-in-action project...
The Horizon 2020 FRAMEwork project brings together farmers, researchers and other stakeholders to share knowledge - testing innovative practices for collective landscape-scale biodiversity enhancement in agroecosytems and recommending improvements to how we value biodiversity and ecosystem services in our agrifoodsystem.
Meet our Leadership and Management Team...
Graham Begg
Project Coordinator
Dr Begg is the project coordinator at convening partner The James Hutton Institute
Coordinator Dr Begg's oversees the project. His research focuses on the dynamics of how species respond to changes in the arable environment and its management. Following impacts this has on important ecosystem functions such as pest regulation, production and biodiversity.
Alastair Simmons
Deputy Coordinator
Alastair is Communication, Knowledge Exchange & Participation Coordinator at Taskscape Associates
Alastair helps coordinate communications, knowledge exchange and participation, working to support events and deliverables.
Associates consult and collaborate to assist partners while Taskscape Media produces training and outreach content to enhance
legacy impacts.
Fanny Tran
Project Manager
Fanny is the project manager at convening partner The James
Hutton Institute.
Fanny manages the
administrative side of the project
coordinating deadlines, data, project reporting and events. She's been associated with agrifood and environmental sciences projects and papers over many years, like TRUE.
Meet our Advisory Board...
Louise Amand
The Capitals Coalition
TEBBAgrifood Belgium
Louise is a Collaboration Officer developing guidance for agrifood businesses and sustainable agriculture.
She is involved in fostering collaboration and partnerships across international projects.
Camillo de Camillis
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Camillo is a Project Manager and Scientific Adviser in the Agriculture and Consumer Protection Department.
He works at the interface between stakeholders to harmonise methods for biodiversity assessment.
David Kleijn
Wageningen University
Professor Kleijn is a member of WUR's Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation Group.
He works at the nature/agriculture
interface to interest farmers in the benefits
of biodiversity and is coordinator of our sister project SHOWCASE.
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Vasileios Vasileiadis
Syngenta
Vasileios is a Sustainability & Responsibility Business Manager
He leads on Biodiversity & Agronomy Strategies across Europe, Africa and the Middle East and has been involved in major EU projects ENDURE and PURE.