Partners

Meet the consortium

A multidisciplinary consortium for evidence-based nature restoration

NatuRISE brings together research organisations, public authorities, NGOs and innovation-oriented SMEs with complementary expertise across nature restoration, socio-economic assessment, ecosystem services, modelling, stakeholder engagement, decision support and policy uptake.

Together, the partners connect scientific evidence with real-world restoration contexts and policy needs — from local and farm-level decisions to EU-wide assessments. Each partner contributes a specific piece of this puzzle.

VUA

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Project coordination · Biodiversity · Restoration · Decision support

Expertise — Biodiversity, nature restoration, land-use modelling, spatial planning and plural valuation.
Contribution — Coordinates NatuRISE and leads the development of restoration targets, valuation approaches and the integration of evidence into decision support.

IIASA

International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

Impact assessment · Integrated modelling · Evidence synthesis

Expertise — Integrated assessment, land-use and socio-economic modelling, scenario analysis and evidence synthesis.
Contribution — Leads multi-scale restoration impact assessment and advances modelling and evidence-synthesis approaches covering agriculture, forestry, recreation and wellbeing.

VIZZ

Digital innovation · Data · Decision-support tools

Expertise — Digital platforms, data-driven solutions and user-oriented decision-support systems.
Contribution — Co-designs and develops the NatuRISE decision-support platform, translating complex evidence and model outputs into usable information.

WWF-SK

WWF Slovakia

Stakeholder engagement · Co-creation · Science–policy exchange

Expertise — Stakeholder engagement, environmental policy, cross-scale collaboration and science-to-policy processes.
Contribution — Leads stakeholder engagement and co-creation, ensuring that user needs, practical knowledge and diverse perspectives inform NatuRISE research and tools.

Thünen Institute

Agricultural modelling · Biodiversity · Pollinators

Expertise — Agricultural economic modelling and assessment of biodiversity and pollinator impacts.
Contribution — Enhances the CAPRI modelling framework to capture biodiversity and pollinator effects and assesses the implications of restoration measures for farming systems.

Wageningen University & Research

Socio-economic modelling · Ecosystem services · Impact assessment

Expertise — Agricultural economics, socio-ecological transitions and multi-scale economic and environmental modelling.
Contribution — Develops interconnected models to assess restoration benefits, costs, ecosystem services, vulnerabilities and socio-economic impacts across scales.

UCPH

University of Copenhagen

Economy-wide modelling · Environmental economics · Impact assessment

Expertise — Economy-wide modelling, environmental economics and spatially detailed socio-economic assessment.
Contribution — Advances integrated modelling approaches to assess how nature restoration affects economies, territories and different groups.

CZU

Czech University of Life Sciences Prague

Forest restoration · Ecosystem management · Case studies

Expertise — Forest economics, ecosystem management and ecological and climate resilience.
Contribution — Assesses the economic, ecological and climate-resilience implications of alternative forest restoration and management pathways.

AUA

Agricultural University of Athens

Farm-level modelling · Agriculture · Policy assessment

Expertise — Agricultural economics, farm-level modelling and assessment of agricultural management and policy options.
Contribution — Extends farm-level modelling (IFM-CAP) to assess the impacts and implications of nature restoration measures for European agriculture.

UNIWARSHAW

University of Warsaw

Cultural ecosystem services · Wellbeing · Non-monetary valuation

Expertise — Wellbeing, health, recreation, cultural ecosystem services and public attitudes.
Contribution — Assesses the cultural and non-monetary dimensions of restoration through large-scale surveys, including effects on wellbeing, recreation and public acceptance.

University of Ljubljana

Data foundations · Spatial analysis · Socio-economic valuation

Expertise — Spatial statistics, socio-economic analysis and spatial assessment of ecosystem-service benefits and costs.
Contribution — Develops spatially explicit evidence on restoration benefits, foregone costs and socio-economic impacts for use in assessment and decision support.

KPLB

Krajinski park Ljubljansko barje

Public authority · Local knowledge · Case study

Expertise — Local restoration practice, public administration, policy strategies and place-based knowledge.
Contribution — Brings local knowledge, policy perspectives and relevant data into the case study, connecting NatuRISE research with restoration planning and implementation.

POS

Possessio

Science communication · Dissemination · Exploitation

Expertise — Science communication, stakeholder-oriented dissemination, exploitation and knowledge transfer.
Contribution — Leads communication, dissemination and exploitation, making NatuRISE knowledge accessible and supporting uptake and use of results beyond the project.

University of Helsinki

Participatory valuation · Stakeholder perspectives · Policy translation

Expertise — Participatory valuation, socio-economic assessment and integration of stakeholder perspectives.
Contribution — Applies participatory mapping and plural valuation approaches and translates valuation evidence into policy-relevant insights.

UFZ

Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research

Biodiversity · Ecosystem research · Agricultural impacts

Expertise — Ecosystem research, biodiversity modelling and ecological impacts on agricultural production.
Contribution — Assesses biodiversity-driven effects on crop yields and the transition costs associated with nature restoration in agricultural systems.

WWF-HU

WWF Hungary

Nature conservation · Forest restoration · Stakeholder engagement

Expertise — Nature conservation, stakeholder engagement and cultural and recreational ecosystem values.
Contribution — Assesses cultural and recreational values and explores restoration trade-offs in the forest case-study context.

RWS

Rijkswaterstaat

Public authority · Water management · Case study

Expertise — Water management, public policy, local knowledge and restoration-related data.
Contribution — Brings practical and institutional knowledge, policy perspectives and data into the case study, helping ensure that assessments address real-world restoration needs.