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Marine biodiversity and coastal ecosystems play a crucial role in maintaining Earth’s balance. However, they're facing serious threats due to climate change, particularly the intensifying hydro-meteorological events like river flooding and landslides. Numerous...

Friday 27 August | 11:00 – 12:00 CEST Reconnecting water management with nature: Upscaling nature-based solutions Three Horizon2020 projects present their work on Nature-based Solutions for hydrometeorological risk reduction. New cases studies and research will be...

Can you tell us a little bit more about the history, goals and strategy of Naturalea? Naturalea has 25 years of experience in the field of landscape restoration with Nature-Based Solutions (NBS). Our essential rule is to work with and for the nature and we do it with...

When: Monday 7 November 2022, 08:00 EET - Friday 18 November 2022, 18:00 EET Where: Sharm-el-Sheikh, Sud de Sinaï, Egypt Languages: English About COP27 From November 7-18, several Horizon 2020 funded projects will be featured in sessions organised by the European...

20th of October Morning | 10:00 am - 13:00 pm Afternoon | 13:00 pm - 16:00 pm Within the EU-funded project OPERANDUM, Nature-based Solutions (NBS) have been tested and developed for different environmental issues, e.g. flooding, landslides or coastal erosion, in...

In this webinar, you will learn more about Nature-based Solutions (NBS) for mitigating climate change and reducing hazards such as flooding. You will also learn about the GeoIKP platform which functions as a knowledge and data hub for Nature-based Solutions. In...

17 January 2020 On January 17, 2022, OPERANDUM organized a Policy Roundtable with over a dozen regional and national experts to address the uptake of Nature-based Solutions (NBS) for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) in Italy. The event took place at University of Bologna...

29 August - 1 September 2020 OPERANDUM international summer school on “Nature-based Solutions for hydro-meteo hazards and climate change adaptation” will take place in Bologna, Italy, from 29 August to 1 September 2022. Courses will be taught in English and are aimed...

Heat waves pose a long-term health risk. There are studies that focus on the number of deaths due to high temperatures in urban areas. However, these studies paid less attention to the rural parts of the country. Therefore, OPERANDUM conducted a study focusing on two...