Alternet

Fostering the European Science-Policy Interface on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
2027 Alternet Conference: Save the Date

The 2027 Alternet Conference will be hosted by ERCE PAN u.a. UNESCO in Lodz, Poland from 24-26 May 2027. The theme of this conference will be: “Waterscapes of Europe: Restoring Resilient Landscapes in a Changing Europe.”
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2026 ACP Call: Open

The 2026 Alternet Collaborative Projects call is open from 26 October – 10 December 2026. Funding up to 10.000 euros is available for projects aligned with the call theme “Waterscapes of Europe: Restoring resilient landscapes in a changing Europe.”
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Alternet Summer School: Student Reflections
29 students from across Europe and across the world attended the 2026 Alternet Summer School.

Five students shared reflections on their experience in Peyresq.
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Alternet brings together international natural and social science researchers from 21 European countries to integrate our understanding of biodiversity, ecosystems, and the services they provide to society and to create a platform for meaningful communication with policy-makers and the public.

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Our member institutes:

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  • Biology Centre, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (BC-CAS)
  • Research Centre in Systems Ecology and Sustainability, University of Bucharest (UNIBUC)
  • Wageningen Environmental Research (WENR)
  • Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar (CESAM)
  • CREAF
  • Delbaere Consulting (DC)
  • Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering, University of Trento (DICAM)
  • Environment Agency Austria / Umweltbundesamt (EAA)
  • European Regional Centre for Ecohydrology-UNESCO, International Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences (ERCE)
  • Environmental Social Science Research Group (ESSRG)
  • James Hutton Institute (Hutton)
  • Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences of Estonian University of Life Sciences (IAES)
  • Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB)
  • Institute of Life, Earth and Environment (ILEE) - Universite de Namur
  • MTA Ökologiai, Institute of Ecology and Botany, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA OK)
  • Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL)
  • Institute of Landscape Ecology, Slovak Academy of Sciences (ILE-SAS)
  • Research Institute for Nature and Forest / Instituut voor Natuur- en Bosonderzoek (INBO)
  • l’Institut National de Recherche en Agriculture, Alimentation et Environnement (INRAE)
  • Institute for Social-Ecological Research (ISOE)
  • Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA)
  • The Finnish Environment Institute (Syke)
  • Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ)
  • UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH)