ALTER-Net High Impact Actions
CALL EXTENDED through April 30th!
The ALTER-Net High Impact Action (AHIA) initiative was introduced to support high-impact projects that foster collaboration between ALTER-Net partner institutes on hot topics. Past AHIA projects have yielded publications in major journals, produced tangible policy and societal impact, and established long-term international research partnerships.
The 2020 AHIA Call for Proposals is Closed.
ALTER-Net is committed to supporting the work of researchers who are addressing the most pressing issues facing science and society. This year, we accepted proposals on the following subjects:
- Sustainable futures for European landscapes
- The dependence of human society on biodiversity and ecosystem services
- Climate mitigation in European urban areas: the role of ecosystem services
AHIA news
- AHIA publication in Socio-Ecological Practice Research: "Integrative concepts and practices of health in transdisciplinary social ecology." Read more...
- MEEM project paper published in Science of The Total Environment Journal
- Entitled "Policy-driven monitoring and evaluation: Does it support adaptive management of socio-ecological systems?", the output paper of the AHIA MEEM project has been published in Science of The Total Environment. Read more...
- AHIA research published in PLOS ONE Journal
"Cultural Ecosystem Services: An empirical approach across European landscapes and beyond" has been officially published in the PLOS ONE journal. Read more... - AHIA project completion & output: Monitoring and Evaluation for Ecosystem Management
How could policy-driven monitoring and evaluation be improved to better support adaptive ecosystem management? The Monitoring and Evaluation for Ecosystem Management (MEEM) study, a 2017-2018 ALTER-Net high impact action project, investigated this key question. Read more...
AHIA projects
| Call | Activity period | Project | Lead partner | Status | ALTER-Net Partners | Outputs |
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| 5 | 2019-2020 | From meta-system theory to the sustainable, adaptive management of rivers in the Anthropocene | Irstea | Preparatory Stage |
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The involved researchers will prepare a video (posted on Youtube and our lab websites), a blogpost (e.g. The Freshwater Blog), present the project outcome to at least one international conference (e.g. SFS 2020, SIL2020, ESA 2020, SEFS 2021), produce an ALTER-Net pamphlet to be delivered to stakeholders, including 1) the Stakeholder Committee of SMIRES composed of 40 stakeholders from 31 countries, 2) the ECOSTAT group in which some on-going efforts to improve biomonitoring in drying rivers have started in 2019. Additionally, the pamphlet will be shared to IPCC and IPBES communities. They will also produce a summary presenting the policy implications of our results and provide recommendations to policy makers, produce at least one press release to be disseminated by each of the participating organizations. They will also prepare a one-page layman summary for a wider dissemination through our respective EU research networks. Lastly, they will publish the resultant manuscript in an Open Access journal to maximize its impact. |
| 4 | 2018-19 | Land-sparing vs. land-sharing for functional green infrastructure that sustains biodiversity and ecosystem services? – European landscape approach initiatives provide regionally adapted solutions. | SLU | Ongoing |
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Two manuscripts for high-level peer-reviewed journals; a fact sheet; a jargon-free text for ALTER-Net and other websites; an ALTER-Net labelled webinar; a short video presentation for YouTube; and a final report.
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| 3B | 2017-18 | Monitoring and Evaluation for Ecosystem Management (MEEM) | JHI | Complete |
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Kerry Waylen, Kirsty Blackstock, Freddy van Hulst, Carmen Damian, Ferenc Horváth, Richard Johnson, Robert Kanka, Mart Külvik, Christopher Macleod, Kristian Meissner, Mihaela Oprina-Pavelescu, Joan Pino, Eeva Primmer, Geta Rîșnoveanu, Barbora Šatalová, Jari Silander, Jana Špulerová, Monika Suškevičs, Jan Van Uytvanck, Policy-driven monitoring and evaluation: Does it support adaptive management of socio-ecological systems?. Science of The Total Environment, 2019. ISSN 0048-9697, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.12.462. |
| 3A | 2017-18 | Cultural Ecosystem Services: an Empirical Approach across European Landscapes and Beyond | Irstea | Complete |
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Paper: Lenormand M, Luque S, Langemeyer J, Tenerelli P, Zulian G, Aalders I, Chivulescu S, Clemente P, Dick J, van Dijk J, van Eupen M, Giuca R, Kopperoinen L, Lellei-Kovacs E, Leone M, Lieskovsky J, Schirpke U, Smith A, Tappeiner U & Woods H (2018) Multiscale socio-ecological networks in the age of information. arXiv preprintarXiv:1805.00734. Research Article published in PLOS ONE: Project output pre-print |
| 2 | 2016-17 | Marrying One Health with EcoHealth: Inclusive Nature-Based Solutions and Action Research Directions | SYKE | Complete |
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Paper: ”Integrative Concepts and Practices of Health in Trans-disciplinary Social Ecology”. Assmuth, T., Chen, X., Degeling, C. et al. Socio Ecol Pract Res (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42532-019-00038-y Second scientific paper: Antoine-Moussiaux & al. Sust Sci. 2019; Keune & Assmuth 2019; Chen & al., Sci Total Env 2019 |
| 1 | 2015-16 | Public participation in science and policy: development of a science-society interface in relation to biodiversity and ecosystem services | ESSRG | Complete |
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Paper: Bela, G., et al. (2016), Learning and the transformative potential of citizen science. Conservation Biology, 30: 990–999. doi:10.1111/cobi.12762 |
Calls
1: 2015-16 | 2: 2016-17 | 3A: 2017-18 | 3B: 2017-18 | 4: 2018-19 | 5: 2019-20
