17 September 2024
PhD student Aki Kadulin from the SHOWCASE partner Estonian University of Life Sciences (EMU) participated in the Student Conference in Conservation Science (SCCS) in Balatonvilágos, Hungary on 10-14 September, 2024. Her poster presentation, titled “Socio-economic drivers for abandoning semi-natural grasslands in Europe”, focused on a study written by...
21 August 2024
We are excited to announce that SHOWCASE has released a new set of educational and awareness-raising materials created by project partner Scienseed. These materials include infographics and factsheets designed to enhance the public understanding of key issues related to biodiversity-friendly farming, pollinator protection and biodiversity and food security....
13 August 2024
A partly-funded SHOWCASE scoping review led by project partner HUN-REN Centre for Ecological Research, in addition to University of Freiburg, University of Hohenheim, Leuphana University, Museum Koneig, University of Würzburg and Westlake University, provides a global overview of meta-analyses focused on the effects of land-use extensification and diversification...
09 August 2024
Dr. Riho Marja, a former member of SHOWCASE, recently delivered a talk titled "Agri-environment schemes' effects on arthropods across European farmlands - results from three meta-analyses" at a COST Action webinar on 17 July, 2024. This webinar was part of the COST Action T0P-AGRI-Network initiative, which aims to transition towards agriculture free...
08 August 2024
A SHOWCASE co-funded study written by project partner University of Cádiz in collaboration with Mediterranean Institute for Agriculture, Environment and Development, Institute for Multidisciplinary Research in Applied Biology (IMAB) and Department of Science, CIBIO, InBIO and BIOPOLIS Program in Genomics sheds light on the impact of agricultural intensification...
30 July 2024
Global declines in insect populations, particularly pollinators, have raised concerns about food security, since many crops depend on insect pollination. To address this, various international, national and local initiatives have focused on increasing semi-natural habitats in agricultural landscapes to support pollinators. While increasing habitat quantity...
25 July 2024
SHOWCASE partners presented research results at 7th European Congress of Conservation Biology (ECCB) in Bologna, Italy, which took place on 17-21 June 2024. The focus of this year’s ECCB was on the positive message of becoming “Biodiversity positive by 2030”, which also calls for action towards the conservation of our planet’s biodiversity.
In...
15 July 2024
A new feature in CORDIS spotlights SHOWCASE’s insect counting progressive web application - InsectsCount. CORDIS is the European Commission's primary public platform for providing comprehensive information about EU research and development projects, where various stakeholders, such as policymakers, researchers, experts, practitioners and the general...
04 July 2024
In a bid to elevate the transparency and completeness of ecological research in agriculture, a new reporting checklist named AgroEcoList 1.0 has been introduced with a detailed explanatory video. Developed within SHOWCASE by the University of Reading, in partnership with the University of Cambridge, and through a collaborative effort involving...
28 June 2024
On 20-21 June, 2024, SHOWCASE partner University of Bologna (UNIBO) attended the 13th AIEAA Conference "The social sustainability of European agriculture facing old and new challenges.Issues, methods and policies” in Bari, Italy, where Monserrath Lascano and Stefano Targetti presented various project results. The conference addressed the complex and...
14 June 2024
SHOWCASE partner, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), will participate in the 7th European Congress of Conservation Biology (ECCB), which will take place on 17-21 June 2024, in Bologna, Italy. Kati Häfner, representing ZALF, will showcase research on farmer preferences for biodiversity labelling across Europe.
Kati’s presentation...
30 May 2024
With the thrill of the summer months coming upon us, we're equally excited to share the fourth edition of SHOWCASE's newsletter. Here are some achievements and announcements that have been happening within the project since October, 2023:
The release of the progressive web-application InsectsCount;
Sneak preview of the platform Living Fields,...