LIFE24 Welcome Meeting
Nature and Biodiversity
Thematic Session: 15 October 2025
Comet Meetings Louise, Place Stéphanie 20, 1050 Brussels
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Topic / Content |
Speaker |
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08:30 - 09:15 |
Registration of participants & breakfast (ground floor) |
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Join the Plenary room (6th floor, room 6.4) |
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09:15 - 09:30 |
Welcome to the LIFE Programme |
Laszlo Becsy Head of LIFE Unit D.2 |
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09:30 - 10:15 |
Latest policy developments: Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 / Nature Restoration Law/Nature Credits/ Invasive Alien Species |
Frank Vassen tbc DG ENV D.3 Sylvia Barova DG ENV D.3 Daniel Nuijten DG ENV D.2 |
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10:15 - 10:30 |
Presentation by a LIFE Coordinator |
Mr Tomislav Hudina LIFE Artina LIFE17-NAT-HR-000594 |
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10:30 - 10:45 |
Meet your Project adviser/Financial officer Meet the External Monitoring Team |
Manuela Osmi LIFE Unit D2 Iva Rossi ELMEN |
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10:45 - 11:00 |
Key reminders to start well your projects |
Manuela Osmi LIFE Unit D2 |
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11:00 - 11:30 |
Coffee break |
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Moving to Break-out rooms (Split into Thematic sessions and meet project CINEA Project Adviser and External Monitor) (see group table below) |
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11:30 - 13:30 |
Thematic Group Sessions |
Project presentations; session and discussion by facilitators |
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13:30 - 14:30 |
Networking Lunch on the rooftop |
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14:30 - 17:00 |
Thematic Group Sessions (cont.) If group discussions finish, project representatives are free to stay in COMET (up until 18:00) to further network with CINEA staff and external monitors till their departure time for airport/train station. |
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WORKING GROUP 1: Restoration and Management, Floor 6th/Room Restoration
Facilitators:
CINEA Project Advisors: Joseph Van der Stegen, Manuela Osmi
ELMEN Technical Monitor: Jan Sliva
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CODE |
ACRONYM/TITLE |
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101215863 |
LIFE24-NAT-BE-LIFE Heroes/Hydro-Ecological Restoration of Oligotrophic EcoSystems |
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101215590 |
LIFE24-NAT-IS-Peatland LIFEline.is/Full-scale recovery of the integrity and connectivity of Iceland's Lowland Peatlands: part of the European lifebelt in times of changing tides |
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101205464 |
LIFE24-NAT-DE-LIFE RePeat/Restoration of peatlands in the Hannover Region |
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101213998 |
LIFE24-PRE-DE-Biodiv CrEW/Testing Biodiversity Credits in European Wetlands |
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101213608 |
LIFE24-NAT-SE-Heath LIFE/Restoration of species rich mosaic heath landscapes |
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101202651 |
LIFE24-NAT-HR-Mosaic of LIFE/Habitat restoration, grassland birds conservation status improvement and promotion of nature based solutions through resilient mosaic Mediterranean landscape |
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101215969 |
LIFE24-NAT-IT-LIFE terrAmare/Coastal communities for sustainable management of marine and dune habitats in N2000 network |
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101216157 |
LIFE24-NAT-CZ-LIFE Model Forest/Model care for forest habitats and species associated with forest habitats and trees |
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101214542 |
LIFE24-NAT-IT-LIFE RECLOAK/Restore and improve the conservation status of threatened forests by holm oak dieback |
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101215601 |
LIFE24-NAT-AT-LIFE VienNATURA/LIFE VienNATURA: Restoration and Preservation of Steppic Grasslands and Pannonian Forests by Establishing a Silvopasture in a growing city |
WORKING GROUP 2: Species Conservation, Floor 6th/Room Species
Facilitators:
CINEA Project Advisors: Gustavo Becerra-Jurado and Maria-José Aramburu
ELMEN Technical Monitor: Ben Delbaere
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CODE |
ACRONYM/TITLE |
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101215817 |
LIFE24-NAT-IT-ZOO LIFE POLLINATORS/Zoos as local restoration and conservation hotspots in urban and peri-urban areas and citizen science ambassadors to reverse the decline of pollinators in anthropic spaces |
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101216056 |
LIFE24-NAT-IT-LIFE PolliNetwork/Nature Restoration and Management for Pollinator Conservation in Italy |
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101215702 |
LIFE24-NAT-PT-LIFE POLINIZACORES/POLINIZAÇORES |
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101216081 |
LIFE24-NAT-ES-NewLIFE4BioIslands/Establishing New Biodiversity Islands in Degraded Land to Reverse Native Pollinator Decline, Improve Habitat Connectivity and Restore with Resilience |
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101215929 |
LIFE24-NAT-IT-BUZZ LIFE/Integrated actions to safeguard pollinators in urban and peri-urban areas |
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101215305 |
LIFE24-NAT-BE-LIFE ToadAlly/Future proofing the conservation of endangered amphibian species: bridging population recovery with habitat restoration, climate adaptation and policy integration |
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101216239 |
LIFE24-NAT-ES-PINNACARE/Pinna nobilis conservation and restoration |
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101215431 |
LIFE24-NAT-BE-LIFE Cricetus/Catalysing the Conservation of the Critically Endangered Common hamster through an Innovative Species and Agricultural Management Approach |
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101212648 |
LIFE24-NAT-DE-LIFE4HamsterSaxony/Feldhamsterschutz in der Ackerebene Nordwestsachsen - Kooperativ. Klimaresilient. |
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101202727 |
LIFE24-NAT-HU-CitellusLIFE/Ensuring the survival of a viable European Ground Squirrel population in the Pannonian region |
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101216097 |
LIFE24-NAT-FI-LIFEline4Fennicus/One plan approach to increasing resilience and long-term viability of the endemic wild forest reindeer in a changing environment |
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101214048 |
LIFE24-NAT-DE-LIFE DinPin Bear/Towards population-level conservation of Dinaric-Pindos brown bears |
WORKING GROUP 3: Birds and IAS, Floor 6th/Room Birds
Facilitators:
CINEA Project Advisors: Simona Bacchereti, Ana Klenovsek and Iva Obretenova
ELMEN Technical Monitor: Ivaylo Zafirov
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CODE |
ACRONYM/TITLE |
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101199593 |
LIFE24-NAT-FR-LIFE OVERSEAS/prOtecting aVifauna and Environment in fRench overSeAs territorieS |
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101215107 |
LIFE24-NAT-IT-ALEXANDRO/CONCRETE ACTIONS TO IMPROVE CONSERVATION STATUS OF KENTISH PLOVER |
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101215398 |
LIFE24-NAT-SK-LIFE IAS_SK/Protection of Bird Populations in Special Protected Areas through control and eradication of Invasive Animal Species in Slovakia |
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101214376 |
LIFE24-TAR-DE-LIFE SMART IAS/Preparating the upscaling and replication of an advanced smart system for targeted IAS monitoring and life trapping with bycatch prevention |
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101216021 |
LIFE24-NAT-BG-EP for Birds LIFE/Reduction of mortality risk on globally endangered birds through retrofitting of hazardous overhead power lines in South-eastern Europe |
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101215547 |
LIFE24-NAT-AT-LIFE EUROBUSTARD/Cross-border protection of the Great Bustard and the Little Bustard in Europe |
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101216050 |
LIFE24-NAT-IT-FIGHT4WILDLIFE/Urgent actions to prevent and contrast poaching of three focal species in critical danger of extinction in Italy: European eel, Egyptian vulture and Apennine brown bear |
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101215506 |
LIFE24-NAT-NL-LIFE Balkan GriffON/Full recovery of the Griffon Vulture population in the Balkan Peninsula and creation of sustainable capacities for vulture conservation across the region. |
WORKING GROUP 4: Freshwater, Wetlands and Marine, Floor 6th/Room Fresh&Marine
Facilitators:
CINEA Project Advisors: Ilenia Babetto and Edouard Gatineau
ELMEN Technical Monitor: Lynne Barratt
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ACRONYM/TITLE |
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101204278 |
LIFE24-NAT-ES-LIFE BALLESTEROS/REFLOODING AND RESTORATION OF THE BALLESTEROS LAGOONS (CUENCA PROVINCE, SPAIN) |
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101215279 |
LIFE24-NAT-HU-SAFEHAVENLIFE/Creating a safe haven network for Pannonian sodic wetlands and threatened meadow birds |
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101199377 |
LIFE24-NAT-HU-SAVESODAWETLAND/Returning the water to save the unique soda wetlands in the Kiskunság |
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101213136 |
LIFE24-NAT-BG-RiverLIFE/Conservation of the stone crayfish for reviving the river ecosystems |
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101216004 |
LIFE24-NAT-IT-LIFE-RESTORE/Recovery of Endangered Sturgeons Through Optimized Restocking Efforts |
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101216284 |
LIFE24-NAT-PL-LIFE for RIVERS/Adaptive management methods of restoring multidirectional connectivity of watershed and nature based solutions for biodiversity improvement and climate change adaptation |
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101216203 |
LIFE24-NAT-HR-Refresh Fish LIFE/Improving the conservation status of endangered freshwater fish species that are endangered or in unfavourable-bad conservation status in Šibenik-Knin and Split-Dalmatia Counties |
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101215086 |
LIFE24-NAT-IT-LIFE FRESH/LIFE for FReshwater Eutrophic Swamp Habitats restoration |
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101147278 |
LIFE23-NAT-PL-LIFE-for-Dunes-PL/Southern Baltic coastal biodiversity – dune habitat restoration and development of good management practices |
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101148207 |
LIFE23-NAT-IT-LIFE ADAPTS/climate change ADAptations to Protect Turtles and monk Seals |
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101213793 |
LIFE24-PRE-IT-LIFE MAPPER/Guidelines for MAPping, ProtEcting, and Restoring Marine Ecosystems |