First NaturaConnect Stakeholder Event

This event will bring together a diverse range of key-players into dialogue and participative strategic conversation on local needs and challenges in conservation planning as well as potential tools and solutions. Our focus will be on turning ideas into action on the ground to design, implement and manage a coherent and resilient Trans European Nature Network (TEN-N), in the context of EU Member States’ protected area pledges and the Nature Restoration Law.

The event intends to catalyse a connected network of stakeholders who will support Member States in realising an ecologically representative, resilient and well-connected network of conserved areas. During the event, we aim to introduce the NaturaConnect project and kick-off a dialogue around the current context, future scenarios and the overarching challenges that we foresee so far.

Participative, generative dialogue focusing on strategic questions will make up the greater part of this stakeholder event. The event will be professionally designed and hosted in a fully participative manner, so that a diverse range of ideas and views can be exchanged and actions can be discovered collectively.

The programme will cover the following:

• Who the participants are and how they contribute to the EU 2030 Biodiversity Strategy
• Collective dialogue to identify current enablers, barriers and needs for achieving the 30% target of the Biodiversity Strategy
• Presentation of the core aims and organisation of the NaturaConnect project
• Collective dialogue to discover key actions needed on the main areas of the project
• Next steps and how to continue being an active stakeholder in the project