Identification & Background 

Project Designation: FLoRE – Local Flora for Ecological Restoration

Project code: S1/2.7/F0042

Objective: To demonstrate the economic and organizational feasibility of a scale change in the implementation of a series of ecological restoration solutions valuing a local resource: seeds of native wild herbaceous plants and local origin.

Region of intervention: Spain, France and Portugal
Main beneficiary: Conservatoire d’Espaces Naturels d’Occitanie


co-promoters:
MORE CoLAB – Laboratório Colaborativo Montanhas de Investigação
Conservatoire d’Espaces Naturels d’Auvergne – CEN Auvergne
Le Labo des Territoires Alimentaires Méditerranéens – FAB’LIM
Asociación Florestal de Soria – ASFOSO 
Comunidad Autónoma de la Región de Murcia Consejería de Medio Ambiente, Mar Menor, Universidades e Investigación Dirección General de Medio Natural – Centro Murcia
Cámara Oficial de Comercio, Industria y Servicios de Badajoz – CC Badajoz
Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária – INIAV

Start date: 01-01-2024
End date: 31-12-2026

Total eligible investment: €1,812,578.65
Eligible investment MORE CoLAB: 100000,00 €
Financial support from the European Union: 75000€

  • Operationalize and disseminate existing knowledge on ecological restoration using seeds of native wild herbaceous plants and local origin;
  • Evaluate different ecological restoration solutions;
  • Develop an engagement strategy for all components of the line.
  • State-of-the-art projects, initiatives, scientific work and public policies (at national and European level) that aim to support ecological restoration
  • Development of a Toolkit that facilitates access to existing knowledge in ecological restoration processes
  • Development of the project’s communication strategy, including collaboration tools for centralization of partner information
  • Elaboration of the objectives and protocols for monitoring and evaluation of the different pilot projects (identification and selection of several target environments; descriptive map of all sites; elaboration of the protocols for the collection/production of seeds, sowing and monitoring)
  • Management of seed production and restoration operations
  • Data collection and processing, analysis and capitalization of the results of the pilot plots
  • Advance the modelling of development scenarios for solutions tested through groups of multiple stakeholders
  • Support local actors in the implementation of restoration practices and awareness raising of public-private decision makers, agents of the value chain and the general population
  • Recommendations on available action plans to support the sustainability of tested solutions