PROJECTS
OUR PROJECTS

LIFE Operating Grant
Duration 2022-2024
The LIFE Operating Grant drives Eurosite’s mission by strengthening cooperation, expanding networks, and enhancing organisational capacity to protect Europe’s nature.
Key Objectives:
- Networking for Europe’s Nature: Facilitating Twinning initiatives on emerging topics like Nature-Based Solutions, climate, health, and disaster control, while expanding Eurosite’s membership and partnerships.
- Thematic Cooperation for Natura 2000: Supporting EU nature directives through Working Groups focused on agriculture, biodiversity, ecosystem services, recreation, peatland restoration, and more.
- Eurosite and EU Institutions: Enhancing Eurosite’s visibility at the European level, raising awareness of ecosystem services, and fostering cooperation between site managers and farmers to promote nature-friendly products.
- Organisational Development: Strengthening Eurosite’s Secretariat and Board with the resources and expertise needed to diversify income, improve communication, and sharpen its public profile.
This grant is key to advancing European nature conservation while fostering collaboration and innovation.

Peat Pals for LIFE
Duration 2023-2026
Peat Pals for LIFE, a collaboration between Natuurmonumenten, Natuurpunt, Wageningen University, and Eurosite, focuses on improving peat ecosystems in Natura 2000 areas across the Netherlands and Flanders. Officially launched in Veenhuizen in October, the project aims to enhance hydrology and monitor carbon and greenhouse gas dynamics, providing insights into the impact of restoration on reducing CO2 emissions.
Objectives:
The project works to restore degraded, carbon-rich peatlands, improving habitat conditions for species in unfavourable status. Restoration efforts focus on creating resilient peat ecosystems in the Fochteloërveen (Netherlands) and the valleys of the Abeek, Dommeldal, and Veewei (Flanders).

TUNE IT project
Duration 2023-2025
The Erasmus+ project Nature Benefits: from Theory to Practice TUNE IT aims to develop a course and train site managers and local (regional) authorities responsible for managing natural areas. The training will enable them to use existing knowledge and tools to benefit nature and transfer them into their daily work.
Nature Benefits, or ecosystem services, are the vital contributions of ecosystems to human well-being, from food and water to carbon capture and climate regulation. This project transforms scientific knowledge into a multilingual training course empowering conservation practitioners.
The year-long course consists of three modules focusing on understanding, applying, and planning for nature benefits in conservation efforts.
This initiative, which has ten partner organisations across five countries, aims to deepen knowledge, integrate socio-economic elements into site management, and strengthen the link between nature and well-being.

EUKI Project: Building the European Peatlands Initiative
Duration 2023-2025
The EUKI project aims to establish a long-term European alliance of governments and stakeholders dedicated to peatland-based climate protection. While peatlands are vital for carbon storage, Europe faces massive peatland degradation. Restoring and rewetting peatlands is critical to reversing this trend and achieving sustainable land use.
The project aims to establish the European Peatlands Initiative by fostering collaboration, updating data, developing strategies, and providing practical guidance. This initiative will ensure the long-term restoration and sustainable management of peatlands across the continent.
The project “Building the European Peatlands Initiative: a strong alliance for peatland climate protection in Europe” is part of the European Climate Initiative (EUKI). EUKI is a project financing instrument by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK). The EUKI competition for project ideas is implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH. It is the overarching goal of the EUKI to foster climate cooperation within the European Union (EU) to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions.

MOSAIC project
Duration 2023-2027
Mosaic project: Aims to transform European land management
The EU-funded MOSAIC project, joined by twenty organisations, embarks on a five-year mission to improve European land management. Aligned with the EU Green Deal and other strategies targeting climate and biodiversity crises, MOSAIC addresses the complexities of land use, society, and economics that challenge current policies and make decision-making for policymakers difficult.
At its core, MOSAIC will analyse decision-making processes in land use, focusing on climate change and biodiversity. Policy Labs in six European regions — Belgium, Denmark, Hungary, Portugal, Switzerland, and at a European continental level — will facilitate the development of innovative policy options through community and organisational involvement.
The impact of these options will be evaluated using advanced modelling techniques.
Key findings and stakeholder insights will be shared online, supporting decision-makers in implementing effective land use policies, ultimately shaping a sustainable future for Europe’s landscapes.

Biodiversa+ SPEAR: Strengthening Bird Conservation
Duration 2023-2027
The EU-funded Biodiversa+ SPEAR project improves bird conservation by enhancing Europe’s protected areas network to adapt to climate change. It identifies priority areas, assesses network resilience, and develops cost-effective management and governance tools for wetlands and harvested species, securing a sustainable future for biodiversity.
The project is supported by the European Biodiversity Partnership.

LIFE MultiPeat
Duration: 2021-2016
Peatlands are vital carbon stores, but when degraded, they emit significant greenhouse gases (GHGs). The EU is the second-largest emitter from drained peatlands globally. LIFE Multi Peat addresses this by restoring peatlands across Poland, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Ireland, turning GHG sources back into carbon sinks.
Objectives:
- Restore degraded peatlands to stop GHG emissions and reinstate carbon sink functions.
- Develop replicable techniques for peatland restoration and emission measurement.
- Create a peatland policy toolkit with an EU-wide policy catalogue, data portal, and guidance for stakeholders.
LIFE Multi Peat brings together partners like NABU, Eurosite, and Natuurpunt to contribute to EU climate goals through innovative peatland restoration.

LIFE Nardus and Limosa



LIFE ENPLC project
Duration 2020-2024
The LIFE ENPLC project brings together landowners and conservationists to protect and restore private land for nature and the climate across Europe.
Our project’s vital part is strengthening trust and cooperation between all stakeholders. To this end, Eurosite and ELO have established the Conservation Landowners Coalition (CLC) as a European partnership of landowners and conservationists.

LIFE European Land Conservation Network (ELCN)


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