Identification & Background:
Project title: FLoRE
Project number: S1/2.7/F0042
Main Goal: Demonstrate the economic and organizational viability of a change in scale in the implementation of a series of ecological restoration solutions valuing a local resource: seeds from herbaceous wild native plants, of local origin.
Region of intervention: Spain, France and Portugal
Main beneficiary: Conservatoire d’Espaces Naturels d’Occitanie
Co-promoters:
MORE CoLAB
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
Starting date: 01-01-2024
Conclusion date: 31-12-2026
Total eligible investment: € 1 812 578,65
Total eligible investment MORE CoLAB: € 100000,00
Financial support from the European Union: € 75000
Objectives
- Operationalize and disseminate existing knowledge on ecological restoration solutions using seeds from herbaceous wild native plants of local origin.
- Evaluate different ecological restorations solutions.
- Develop a strategy to involve all value chain components.
Activities
- State-of-the-art of all projects, initiatives, scientific works and public policies (at national and european level) that aim to support ecological restoration solutions.
- Development of a Toolkit to facilitate access to existing knowledge on ecological restoration processes.
- Development of the project’s communication plan, including collaboration tools to center the partner’s information.
- Drafting of the objectives and protocols for the monitoring and evaluation of the different pilot plots (identification and selection of several target environments; descriptive map of all sites; elaboration of protocols for the collection/production of seeds, and their sowing and monitoring).
- Seed production and restoration operations’ management.
- Data gathering and processing, and analysis and capitalization of pilot plots
- Advancement in modeling development scenarios for the tested solutions, through groups of multiple stakeholders.
- Support local actors in implementing restoration practices and raising awareness among public-private decision makers, value chain agents and the general population.
- Recommendations on available action plans to support the sustainability of the tested solutions.
