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Citizen Observatory + Information Hub < Back Work Package 3 Citizen Observatory + Information Hub Citizen Observatory and Information Hub built an engaging front-end knowledge and action platform for the provision of biodiversity management and monitoring tools and protocols to be used by farmers and other citizens. Training modules and other learning materials were hosted and a range of material in support of citizen science monitoring campaigns was developed. This included the development of an online game, the FRAMEwork Biodive game, to help farmers visualise their existing contributions to biodiversity, facilitate goal setting and provide feedback on successful 'nudges' to behaviour change. The Citizen Observatory and Information Hub also included infrastructure for the provision of new sets of open, harmonised, high-quality citizen generated data, with a focus on data integration/interoperability with existing data platforms, e.g. GBIF, GEO BON (GEOSS). Collaboration with existing citizen observatories (e.g. LandSense, WeObserve, the GROW Observatory) and links with other biodiversity monitoring and agrobiodiversity projects (e.g. SFS-01 sub-topic B) were established. Learn more using the legacy guide below - it's the easiest way to explore project results and materials all in one place. Project Legacy Guide Access Deliverables D3.1: Implementation of the Information Hub - the FRAMEwork online knowledge and action platform D3.2: The FRAMEwork approach to farmer-based biodiversity and ES monitoring D3.3: Engaging the wider public in farmland biodiversity monitoring: campaign design and implementation D3.4: FRAMEwork network map and related activities D3.5: Citizen Science data management standards, harmonisation and integration Please note deliverable task numbers don't indicate order of delivery. Previous Next

Scandinavian inter-disciplinary org aimed at developing and applying natural and social science to real- world environment and development challenges. < Back Nordic Agency For Development and Ecology Scandinavian inter-disciplinary org aimed at developing and applying natural and social science to real- world environment and development challenges. NORDECO develops tools and methods, carries out research, connects persons and institutions, builds capacity, and supports interventions on the ground. Founded in 1991, NORDECO has the declared goal of supporting local, innovative conservation and development initiatives. Globally, NORDECO has spearheaded the development of bottom-up approaches to natural resource monitoring and management, where local people or local government staff are directly involved in data collection and interpretation, and where monitoring is linked to the decisions of local people, using methods that are simple, cheap and require few resources. Such approaches can help generate transparency, accountability and local ownership in sustainable natural resource management initiatives. IN FRAMEWORK NORDECO will lead on citizen science monitoring with the wider public. In addition, NORDECO will contribute to stakeholder dialogue and quality assurance. NORDECOs background in developing bottom-up approaches to citizen science and natural resource monitoring and management in rural communities matches these tasks very well. Previous Next

Convening Scottish partner the James Hutton Institute has been at the forefront of rural, agricultural and environmental science for 90 years, delivering products and expertise to benefit society. < Back The James Hutton Institute Convening Scottish partner the James Hutton Institute has been at the forefront of rural, agricultural and environmental science for 90 years, delivering products and expertise to benefit society. JHI is one of the world’s leading scientific organisations undertaking research focused on land, crops, pests, crop protection, food security, sustainable agriculture, water and the environment. The Institute brings together a broad range of science disciplines that interconnect to deliver a research strategy of finding solutions to the global challenges of providing food, forestry-based goods, energy and water from finite land and natural resources under changing environmental conditions. The JHI is a multi-site Institute (Dundee, Aberdeen and associated research platforms and farms) comprising of world class scientists leading and working in concert in the land, crop, food, water, environmental and socio-economic sciences. IN FRAMEWORK JHI will co-ordinate the consortium and act as Lead Partner. JHI will ensure the project is progressing according to the Grant Agreement and that partners are delivering the agreed outputs in a timely manner. A network of neighbouring farmers in the Balruddery Catchment, Tayside, Scotland will be established as a Farmer Cluster, together with local stakeholder groups (SEPA, SNH, Tayside Biodiversity Partnership, local council officers, Soil Association and LEAF) to co-design and implement biodiversity friendly management strategies and monitor the impact across the catchment on pollinator biodiversity and pollination services. Facilitation and training will be provided through on farm events and workshops. Data and information from this Pilot Study, together with existing data from biodiversity studies at landscape scales will help assess landscape composition effects on functional biodiversity and ecosystem services. JHI’s social scientists will lead the development of the Hutton DigiFarm environment into a game for assessing farmer and public knowledge of biodiversity production strategies across the project. JHI will: contribute to the development, implementation and analysis of the survey of existing UK farmers clusters to assess their performance and factors determining success contribute to current and potential private incentives for the adoption of agro-biodiversity enhancing measures by clusters’ farmers; co-ordinating and supervising the preparation of survey material, data collection and analysis; and, contribute to the development and circulation of summary information notes, policy briefs and academic publications regarding outcomes supporting the review and selection of sustainability indicators participating in the design of the prototype socio-ecological network for selected studies, concerning the integration of natural assets interactions (impacts and dependencies) with other components of the system prepare the guides and templates for natural assets profiling and assessment of impact and dependencies of farming systems on natural capital and co-ordinate data checking (validation) and impact assessment analysis and participating in the analysis of regional impact forecasting potential; and co-ordination of report and manuscript preparation; participating in generalization of network model to MADM concerning the integration of natural assets impacts and dependencies with other components of the decision framework Previous Next

Ecologist interested in conservation biogeography, spatial ecology and biodiversity monitoring, currently working as a Research & Technology Associate at ERIN/LIST (SUSTAIN RDI Unit). < Back Dr Lisette Cantu Salazar Ecologist interested in conservation biogeography, spatial ecology and biodiversity monitoring, currently working as a Research & Technology Associate at ERIN/LIST (SUSTAIN RDI Unit). Dr Cantu Salazar has a degree in Biology, a Master degree in Ecology and Natural Resource Management and a PhD with a focus on Macroecology and the performance of protected areas for biodiversity. She has authored and co-authored 20+ peer-reviewed scientific papers, mainly in the domains of conservation biology and wildlife ecology. Her main research interests are on the determinants of the distribution and occupancy of different levels of biodiversity and the performance of conservation instruments, such as protected areas and agri-environment measures. She is also interested on the development and application of new monitoring methods for biodiversity. LCS coordinates the implementation of a national monitoring programme of wild pollinators in Luxembourg (MONIPOL), funded by the Ministry of the Environment, Climate and Sustainable Development. In FRAMEwork, LCS will lead WP5 and contribute to task activities mainly in WP2, by providing inputs on biodiversity management and monitoring.

CREAF Communications - Alternet Management Board < Back Adriana Clivillé, CREAF CREAF Communications - Alternet Management Board Journalist with an interest in communication and digital marketing, the threads of my experience in corporate communication strategies, content creation, social network and campaign management, press office, spokesperson training, crisis communication and reputation and brand. I have been involved in outreach initiatives on the natural environment, renewable energy, technology, territory and its management with environmental criteria for companies, universities, public administration and consulting. http://www.creaf.cat/staff/adriana-cliville-morato

Project Manager at Czech University of Life Sciences Prague's Faculty of Environmental Sciences. < Back Emilie Trakalova Project Manager at Czech University of Life Sciences Prague's Faculty of Environmental Sciences. Mgr. Emilie Trakalova is Project Manager and International Projects Consultant at Czech University of Life Sciences Prague. czu (https://www.fzp.czu.cz/en/r-9411-projects-and-partnerships/r-9880-projects/r-18899-earthbridge-building-bridges-between-earth-observation-and-environmental-sciences)She coordinates the Czech component of the H2020 FRAMEwork project, managing establishment of farmer clusters in southern Moravia. Czu +2 (https://www.fzp.czu.cz/en/r-9411-projects-and-partnerships/r-9880-projects/r-15621-farmer-clusters-for-realising-agrobiodiversity-management-across-europe-framework)Her work facilitates transdisciplinary collaboration between researchers, farmers, and stakeholders on landscape-scale biodiversity conservation and agroecological transitions.

Leader of the ‘Conservation Biological Control’ team at INRA-PSH and deputy head at INRA department ’Agronomy & Environment’. < Back Dr Claire Lavigne Leader of the ‘Conservation Biological Control’ team at INRA-PSH and deputy head at INRA department ’Agronomy & Environment’. Dr Lavigne is currently working on integrated horticultural crop production with particular interest on the spatio-temporal dynamics of agricultural pests and pest enemies at a landscape scale and more generally on how landscape features and agricultural practices shape biodiversity in agricultural landscapes. Her work includes data collection in commercial orchards, data analyses and modelling pest dynamics and 2D agricultural field patterns. She supervised seven PhD students over the last decade.

The main public institute researching for Agriculture and Environment in France. < Back French National Agricultural Institute The main public institute researching for Agriculture and Environment in France. Initially founded 70 years ago, INRAE is France's new National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment, created on January 1, 2020, It was formed by the merger of INRA, the National Institute for Agricultural Research, and IRSTEA, the National Research Institute of Science and Technology for the Environment and Agriculture. IN FRAMEWORK INRAE has experience in organizing and facilitating Farmer Clusters in France. INRA will operate one of the pilot Farmer Clusters in apple and pear orchards. It will conduct workshop in collaboration with GRAB involving farmers and agricultural advisers from the GIEE to enhance and coordinate the implementation of agroecological infrastructures, the monitoring and identification of farmland biodiversity by farmers, and to explore farmer sensitivity to biodiversity all along the project. INRA will contribute through monitoring and analysis of farmland biodiversity according to farmer agricultural practices and agroecological landscape context to precise the ecological mechanisms impacting natural pest control. Two research units at Avignon will be involved in the FRAMEwork project ‘Plants and cropping Systems in Horticulture’ , which conducts ecophysiological and agroecological approaches to enhance the quality of fresh fruits and vegetables and the development of environment friendly cropping systems in the Mediterranean area, and ‘Eco-development’, which studies conditions for a transition of agriculture and rural territories towards a sustainable ecologisation of agricultural activities. Previous Next

Researcher in EMU Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Chair of Plant Health. < Back Dr Riina Kaasik Researcher in EMU Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Chair of Plant Health. Dr Kaasik has been involved with both national and international level projects. Her research activities focus on tritrophic interactions, Integrated Pest Management (IPM) and functional agrobiodiversity. She has over 10 peer-reviewed papers in scientific journals, she is a reviewer for Journal of Insect Behaviour and has supervised several Bachelor and master theses.

PhD Researcher at Institute of Environmental Systems Research < Back Thomas Rellensmann PhD Researcher at Institute of Environmental Systems Research Mr Rellensmann is a Ph.D. candidate in the FRAMEwork project. During his master’s research in Environmental Systems Science, he focused on drivers for and barriers to agri-environmental collaboration by contrasting the farmer cluster approach with prevalent approaches in decentralised natural resource management. His work within FRAMEwork foremost aims to design public incentives (i.e., agri-environmental schemes) that promote the concerted development and implementation of environmental measures on agricultural land on a landscape scale. Further research interests of Mr Rellensmann include the analysis and modelling of social-ecological-system dynamics, participatory resource management, and environmental policy.

Daniela Ablinger is Research Assistant at HBLFA Raumberg-Gumpenstein's Lambach Branch, Austria. < Back Daniela Ablinger Daniela Ablinger is Research Assistant at HBLFA Raumberg-Gumpenstein's Lambach Branch, Austria. Daniela Ablinger is Research Assistant at Austria's Agricultural Research and Education Centre Raumberg-Gumpenstein, based at the Lambach Branch. MDPIR(https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/12/4/867)aumberg-gumpenstein (https://raumberg-gumpenstein.at/forschung/institute/bio-landwirtschaft-und-biodiversitaet-der-nutztiere/ziele-und-aufgaben4/136-bio-gruenland-und-viehwirtschaft/157-bio-feldfutter-und-leguminosenbau/657-ablinger-daniela.html)Her research examines relationships between grassland management and insect diversity in alpine organic systems. MDPI (https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/12/4/867)She actively supports Austrian farmer clusters in implementing biodiversity-sensitive farming practices, Wiley (https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2688-8319.70097)bridging scientific research with practical on-farm conservation implementation.

Farmer Cluster Facilitator < Back Jan Trávníček Farmer Cluster Facilitator Jan Trávníček specialises in organic farming, sustainability assessment tools, data collection and plant breeding during his studies (Mendel University in Brno, Wageningen University and Research, Netherlands), and during 2 years of different work experiences in Switzerland (FiBL, Peter Kunz Foundation). As a scientific assistant he participated as a co-author of the yearbook World of Organic. He is currently organic farming consultant and director of Czech Organics (advisory and research services) in Czech republic and facilitates the project's Czech Farmer Cluster.