The vision of SELINA is to provide guidance for evidence-based decision-making that supports the protection, restoration, and sustainable use of our environment. Through a collaboration of experts from 50 partner organisations from all 27 EU member states, Norway, Switzerland, Israel, and the United Kingdom, SELINA will set new standards for international cooperation to enhance ecosystem conditions and to promote ecosystem services and biodiversity.
Providing robust practical information and recommendations to stakeholders from both the public and private sectors, SELINA will pave the way towards the transformative societal change required to achieve the ambitious goals of the European Biodiversity Strategy 2030 and the Green Deal.
Main activities
SELINA identifies biodiversity and ecosystem service factors that can be successfully integrated into decision-making processes at both public and private sectors. Knowledge-sharing and co-production is facilitated via EU-wide workshops and through national, multi-disciplinary Communities of Practice. SELINA develops, tests, and integrates new and existing knowledge, including methodological approaches to improve biodiversity, ecosystem condition, and ecosystem service information uptake. In Demonstration Projects, we show and study how the collaboration between science, private, and public stakeholders can support the impactful use of biodiversity and ecosystem knowledge.
Outcomes and expected impacts
The main outcome of SELINA is enhanced integration of knowledge on biodiversity, ecosystem condition and ecosystem services in European decision-making at both public and private sectors.
Syke's tasks in SELINA
Suomen ympäristökeskus Syke engages with the Finnish Community of Practice to recognize the knowledge needs of actors and to facilitate knowledge uptake (WP2). SYKE participates in WP3 on ecosystem condition, with a focus on defining the good condition of marine and coastal ecosystems. In WP9, SYKE organizes a Demonstration Project to support the public and private decision-making on marine and coastal tourism in Helsinki. In WP10, SYKE studies the legal rights and duties connected to healthy ecosystems. Marine and coastal ecosystems are at focus in all SYKE SELINA work.
Contact
Research professor Anu Lähteenmäki-Uutela, Finnish Environment Institute, forename.surname@syke.fi, tel. +358 29 525 2087