Mainstreaming Ecological Restoration of freshwater-related ecosystems in a Landscape context: INnovation, upscaling and transformation
Europe's environment is in an alarming state, with climate change expected to further aggravate the situation. This poses severe threats to economic prosperity, human wellbeing and social peace – our society needs systemic transformative change.
Ecosystem restoration is key to this change, and freshwaters play an important role: the restoration of streams, rivers, peatlands and wetlands has a long tradition and offers an extensive knowledge base – freshwaters are ideal demonstrators of the necessary change.
The MERLIN project commits to transformative ecosystem restoration, mainstreaming Nature-based Solutions for the urgent systemic change of our society.
MERLIN INNOVATION AWARDS 2025
Are you a company with an innovative product or service for freshwater ecosystems?
MERLIN webinars
The MERLIN project is offering a monthy webinar-series on (freshwater) restoration-related topics, which are open and free for anyone to join.
Next webinar #27: Dez 02, 2024 - 15h (CET)
Tom Buijse (Deltares, Wageningen University)
"Upscaling freshwater ecosystem restoration for people and nature with Nature-based Solutions"
More information & recordings of previous webinarsTraining for the Nature Restoration Law
We need your valuable input!
The MERLIN Academy intends to offer training material for the NRL implementation. To adequately shape its design to your needs, we want to learn more about what kind of knowledge about the implementation of the NRL already exists, what kind of help is needed and how new knowledge can be conveyed best. We highly value your opinion and past experiences with e-learning resources and would be delighted if you help us to improve our content and user experience.
MERLIN is a "research and innovation action" funded under the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 programme under grant agreement No 101036337.