Objective
AQUACROSS aims to support EU efforts to enhance the resilience and stop the loss of biodiversity of aquatic ecosystems as well as to ensure the ongoing and future provision of aquatic ecosystem services. It focuses on advancing the knowledge base and application of the ecosystem-based management concept for aquatic ecosystems by developing cost effective measures and integrated management practices. AQUACROSS considers the EU policy framework (i.e. goals, concepts, time frames) for aquatic ecosystems and builds on knowledge stemming from different sources (i.e. WISE, BISE, Member State reporting, modelling) to develop innovative management tools, concepts, and business models (i.e. indicators, maps, ecosystem assessments, participatory approaches, mechanisms for promoting the delivery of ecosystem services) for aquatic ecosystems at various scales. It thereby provides an unprecedented effort to unify policy concepts, knowledge, and management concepts of freshwater, coastal, and marine ecosystems to support the cost-effective achievement of the targets set out by the EU 2020 Biodiversity Strategy.
Fields of science
- social sciencessociologygovernance
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementbusiness models
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystems
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental scienceshydrologylimnology
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringecosystem-based management
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RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
10717 BERLIN
Germany
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Participants (16)
12489 Berlin
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75007 Paris
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6708 PB Wageningen
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28805 Alcala De Henares Madrid
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1180 Wien
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3810-193 Aveiro
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68000 Colmar
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
L69 7ZX Liverpool
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1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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T12 YN60 Cork
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10691 Stockholm
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820112 Tulcea
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8600 Dubendorf
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1040 Bruxelles / Brussel
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48940 Leioa
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Legal entity other than a subcontractor which is affiliated or legally linked to a participant. The entity carries out work under the conditions laid down in the Grant Agreement, supplies goods or provides services for the action, but did not sign the Grant Agreement. A third party abides by the rules applicable to its related participant under the Grant Agreement with regard to eligibility of costs and control of expenditure.
48009 Bilbao
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