[Milena Sokolova]

Dear Interreg Euro-MED community members,

We are a team from University of Basilicata, Italy (Milena Sokolova and Mario Cozzi) and we are looking for partners under Interreg Euro-MED Call 8, Thematic Test projects, Natural Heritage Mission. We are interested in joining an existing consortium or co-developing a proposal focused on on-the-ground ecosystem restoration and wildfire resilience. The concept is strongly linked to the EU Nature Restoration Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2024/1991), which demands effective area-based restoration strategies to restore damaged ecosystems, enhance their resilience and contribute to climate adaption and disaster-risk reduction.

Our experience:
We just successfully finished the national CRITERIA project, in which we integrated wildfire modeling with mapping and economic assessment of ecosystem services. The project evaluated probable wildfire effects on biomass supply, carbon sequestration, erosion control, pollination and cultural recreational services and looked at alternate management techniques.
Our involvement in Tech4You and the Agritech project adds experience in the assessment of ecosystem services, spatial analysis, stakeholder preferences and economic valuation. We’d bring these current approaches and outcomes to the partnership to aid practical decisions and how to effectively deploy available resources.

Our aim:
We intend to transfer existing research results to new Mediterranean territories and implement them with local stakeholders. The next stage is to collaborate with public authorities, landscape managers, landowners and rural communities to adapt these results to their needs, choose practical solutions and use them in real management situations.
Our working concept would help partners identify priority regions, compare management choices, and execute interventions such as targeted grazing, selective vegetation management, and ecological fuel breaks. Intervention selection would be guided by stakeholder involvement, clarifying responsibilities and helping to integrate interventions into local restoration and management plans.

We would welcome conversations of individuals who can translate existing results of study into actual territorial applications.
We would be very pleased to establish contact and explore potential opportunities for cooperation.

Thank you very much for your time and consideration. We are looking forward to hearing from you and hopefully having the opportunity to cooperate.

Best regards,

Milena Sokolova
Postdoctoral researcher
University of Basilicata
School of Agricultural, Forest, Food, and Environmental Sciences
milena.sokolova@unibas.it

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