Acronym: RE-ENFORCE

Title: Transnational Cooperation on nature-based solutions for restoring degraded forests of Central Europe

Call: Interreg Central Europe

Duration: (01/06/2024 – 31/05/2027) 36 mesi

Coordinator: Austrian Research Centre for Forests BFW

Total EU Contribution: 2.076.724,52 €

TESAF Budget: 215.740,00 €

Responsible Scientific Officer/Investigator: Emanuele Lingua

Research Team: Emanuele Lingua, Francesco Pirotti, Davide Marangon, Flavio Taccaliti, Paola Bolzon

Brief description: The objective of the RE-ENFORCE project is to facilitate the restoration of degraded forest ecosystems in CE through (NBS) by fostering transnational cooperation.
This will be achieved by developing transnational strategies and identifying priority areas for forest restoration, testing the transnational strategies in 6 jointly developed pilot actions, and integrating maps of key drivers, and lessons learned from pilot actions to develop transnational solutions for forest restoration and developing a web-based decision support system (DSS).
This innovative web-based DSS will provide conservationists, landscape planners, citizens, and policy-makers easy access to site-specific NBS for forest restoration. An innovative scoping study to finance restoration activities through the economic instruments such as carbon market is also planned in the project. RE-ENFORCE ensures participatory decision-making and a long-term vision for forest restoration by disseminating expertise, testing NBS in pilot actions, and facilitating long-term transnational collaboration among partners and beyond.

Website: https://www.interreg-central.eu/projects/re-enforce/