21 December 2022
SHOWCASE wishes you a happy, healthy and biodiversity-friendly New Year!
21 December 2022
A recent news piece published by the Community Research and Development Information Service (CORDIS) calls attention to SHOWCASE’s research-based policy recommendations.
As the European Commission's primary source of results from EU-funded projects, CORDIS brings impactful research results closer to relevant stakeholders. SHOWCASE caught its...
13 December 2022
To overcome the barriers preventing the agricultural sector from adopting biodiversity-friendly practices, SHOWCASE provides solid interdisciplinary evidence for the agroecological and socio-economic benefits of biodiversity management. To do that, the project has developed a multi-actor pan-European network of 12 Experimental Biodiversity Areas (EBAs),...
09 December 2022
This press release was published by EurekAlert! and AlphaGalileo.
On the occasion of the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, the EU project SHOWCASE issued its first policy brief providing research-based policy recommendations.
SHOWCASE’s first policy brief will be distributed at a...
06 December 2022
SHOWCASE held its second workshop for Early Career Researchers on 6 December 2022, mentored by the project’s coordinator Prof. David Kleijn from Wageningen University (WU), the Netherlands. The project is composed of 21 member organisations with a total of over 80 members, each with his own valuable experience. Keeping that in mind, it’s important to...
30 November 2022
This press release was published by EurekAlert! and AlphaGalileo.
Europe is increasingly investing in research and innovation. Supporting scientific breakthroughs, addressing social challenges and stepping up cooperation are only a few of the benefits of that investment. And while the results of research projects often become well-known success stories,...
28 November 2022
Between 21-25 November 2022, the SFE2-GfÖ-EEF joint meeting took place in Metz, France, under the slogan “Ecology and Evolution: New perspectives and societal challenges”.
Against the backdrop of cutting-edge researchers, science policymakers, and leading teachers from around the globe, SHOWCASE members had the pleasure of presenting their latest...
24 November 2022
On 22 November 2022, the Institute of Geobotany at Leibniz University Hannover (LUH) and the Institute of Animal Ecology at Justus Liebig University Giessen (JLU) held their latest edition of the seminar series on Biodiversity and Ecosystem services. The seminar series is a forum for discussions on ecology, landscape science, and biodiversity research...
18 November 2022
A year after their first in-person meeting in Vienna, SHOWCASE partners were excited to meet up again – this time in sunny Italy! Project members were hosted by partners from the University of Bologna, whose origins go way back – in fact, the university is considered to be the oldest one in the Western world. In this exciting setting, between 7 and...
13 October 2022
The European Researchers’ Night is an annual Europe-wide public event, which aims to bring research closer to the public, shed light on excellent research projects, involve young people in science and illustrate the impacts of researchers’ work in our day-to-day lives. This year, the event took place on 30 September in 26 countries and nearly 400 cities.
Inspired...
20 September 2022
SHOWCASE’s team is composed of leading scientists in fields such as agro-ecology and socio-economy who have joined forces with farmer and citizen science networks, nature conservation NGO’s and science communication specialists in order to achieve a breakthrough in the integration of biodiversity into farming. The project includes 21 member organisations...
11 July 2022
In order to shed more light on the behind-the-scenes of research projects, SHOWCASE launched an open access collection in the Research Ideas and Outcomes (RIO) journal. Its goal is to illustrate the project’s work and development, hosting the full research cycle from its conceptualisation (the grant proposal), including progress made...