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Integrated Research Infrastructure Services for Climate Change risks

Adaptation to climate change requires in-depth understanding of climate change driven risks, including their determinants (hazards, exposure and vulnerabilities) and impacts to human, production and natural systems. Integrated Research Infrastructure Services for Climate Change Risks (IRISCC) is a consortium of diverse and complementary leading research infrastructures (RIs) covering disciplines from natural sciences to social sciences, across different domains and sectors. IRISCC provides scientific and knowledge services to foster cutting-edge research and evidence-based policymaking to improve Europe's resilience to climate change. IRISCC ensures a “one-stop-shop” for various user communities on climate change risk related RI services by setting up a dedicated Catalogue of services and related access management system both for granting transnational (onsite and remote) and offering virtual access. The Catalogue of services will be built through three consecutive releases, each delivering increasingly integrated services to its user communities. The IRISCC service integration will include Service Design Labs employing co-design and transdisciplinary action, and Service Demonstrators benchmarking the integrated cross-RI services. In addition to services aimed towards the scientific community, IRISCC will offer knowledge services aimed towards policymakers and other stakeholders. This is done together with risk management platforms. The research enabled by IRISCC contributes to future reports on climate change effects (IPCC, IPBES) as well as policy- and decision-making to meet the targets of climate adaptation strategies. IRISCC contributes to training a new generation of scientists to efficiently use RI services and for data stewardship. Data from IRISCC will be open and made available in compliance with FAIR principles and linked to European initiatives such as EOSC. Strong links will be created between IRISCC and current and future efforts under Horizon Europe.

Internal Fortress: Regulating European Freedom of Movement within the Nation-State, 1950-1980

Against the prevailing view that freedom of movement lowered internal barriers to movement while raising walls against outsiders to create a ‘fortress Europe,’ this project investigates how the introduction of freedom of movement may have strengthened national political authority over European migration within the member states of the European Economic Community (EEC). InternalFortress suggests that as governments gradually lifted entry restrictions across the EEC, they also built out new internal administrative machinery to insert ‘Community migrants’ into key areas of social and economic life, placing migrants from outside the bloc at a disadvantage within local communities. The project explores this hypothesis in three key areas: social security, skill development, and union participation. The PI will lead a team of two PhD researchers and one postdoc to deploy a methodologically innovative multi-layered research program that analyses the interplay between national, European, and international institutions, as well as the private NGO networks that flowed between those formal frameworks. In contrast to previous histories of freedom of movement, which explain policy outcomes leading up to today’s regime of European citizenship, InternalFortress makes an important interpretive innovation by focusing squarely on the early process of transition from the 1950s to the 1970s. The project will investigate how the improvised nature of early integration created gaps and tensions that were consolidated in the 1970s as national and regional migration policies settled into more rigid patterns. InternalFortress suggests that policies behind the border matter as much as policies at the border for understanding the acrimonious debates around European migration that continue through the present.

International Platform on Obstetric Violence (IPOV): an innovative tool for a respectful maternity and 
childbirth care

Over-medicalisation and disrespect in maternity and childbirth care have been identified by international research as an urgent global public health topic (WHO 2014, Simonovic 2019, Council of Europe 2019). The IPOV-RESPECTFUL CARE project intends to bring attention to obstetric violence and respectful maternity and childbirth care by implementing a concrete tool—the International Platform on Obstetric Violence—to bridge academic research and public policy, training for health professionals, women’s perspectives and public engagement on the matter. The Platform will be an innovative, international, interdisciplinary, intersectoral and cross-cultural digital and interactive tool for producing, sharing and transferring knowledge, systematising and exchanging good practices, acquiring skills and planning gender -based innovative training packages on respectful maternity and childbirth care among health professionals, health training managers, decision makers, researchers, women and all of society. To achieve these goals, a network of 39 breakthrough experts, from 19 participating organisations and 9 countries (universities, research centres, civil organisations and health maternity care institutions) will be established.

Concept development for a research infrastructure to manage, integrate and sustain large medical cohort studies

The INTEGRATE-LMedC consortium will develop a new concept to guide and support decision-making for the next-generation research infrastructure (RI) to facilitate efficient utilization and harmonization of large medical cohorts (LMedC), and to accelerate scientific and medical breakthroughs in Europe and beyond. Achievement of the ambitious objectives will only be possible through the integration of 11 highly interdisciplinary partners including established ERIC / ESFRI infrastructures such BBMRI,  ECRIN, EIRENE and EBRAINS with unique expertise in conceptualizing and implementing European RIs. The partners will generate a gap analysis to identify what is missing of cohort data and samples, RI tools and services, quality measures, governance models, user needs and the barriers for efficient utilization of these cohorts and RI, including ethical and legal frameworks. To identify IT technologies and architecture for suitable data stewardship and long-term availability of European RIs, the partners will prepare for a feasibility study for federated data analysis of LMedC. The feasibility study will be based on two examples of use-cases: one stroke case using data from medical health registry data and one case using data from longitudinal population-based studies with different technical, legal, and ethical challenges. To ensure availability of data and samples related to existing and future LMedC studies and their re-use for secondary research, the partners will develop a concept outline including a governance plan and guiding principles for data access policies and data protection policy, whilst considering the FAIR principles and ELSI issues. An overarching RI concept to manage, integrate, and sustain LMedC studies will be developed, including an initial financial and operational plan for the implementation of the new RI outlining new services and access opportunities for the research community.

REGULAR AND UNPLANNED CARE ADAPTIVE DASHBOARD FOR CROSS–BORDER EMERGENCIES

During cross-border health emergencies, health and care services may be overwhelmed by high numbers of patients requiring unplanned care. Delays and backlogs in regular care, as a result of the stretched health care system, leave millions of patients with regular care needs unattended, resulting in disastrous healthcare outcomes. If poor healthcare outcomes across the population are to be avoided, healthcare systems must become more resilient and flexible and allow for rapid changes in the care delivery services. RAPIDE’s aim is to develop, validate and demonstrate a portfolio of powerful tools that enable healthcare systems to build in robustness of decisions, resilience of the health care professionals and patients and flexibility in the modalities of care delivery, thereby maintaining access to regular care during health emergencies. 

RAPIDE emphasises opportunities for optimising in-hospital care, but also for relocating care from hospitals to community and home environments without loss of care quality. Thus, the project focuses on two closely-linked challenges – 1: Identifying and predicting how much care, and which care, needs to be moved along the care chain; 2: Identifying and verifying effective, feasible and acceptable ways to make this reconfiguration of care a reality. This will be achieved by (a) resource modelling, which builds comprehensive foresight and forecasting solutions and links them to patient flows optimization, along the whole chain of care, (b) selecting and implementing the best available tools to deliver regular care in new ways. To ensure usability, acceptability and equitable real-world value, RAPIDE will be co-designed and co-validated with stakeholders, from patients, GPs, clinicians and hospital managers to health ministries, pandemic-management and public health agencies. A Table Top Exercise and extensive communication and dissemination will raise awareness of the project’s successes.

Transition to safe & sustainable food systems through new & innovative detection methods & digital solutions for plant-based products derived from new genomic techniques, under a co-creation approach

DARWIN aims to contribute to a fair, healthy, safe and environmentally friendly food system by co-developing an innovative detection strategy by integrating targeted analytical PCR-based methods, untargeted sequencing methods, and digital solutions. A new generation of innovative and reliable DNA-based analytical detection methods, ranging from enhanced PCR methods for NGT detection, identification and quantification in single and multi-target systems, to untargeted sequencing methods related to whole-genome sequencing, laser capture microdissection-based sequencing and high throughput metagenomics sequencing for NGT screening and characterization. DARWIN will bring a cutting-edge approach developing genetic fingerprints using artificial intelligence to overcome challenges related to event-specific targeted methods, unambiguously identifying specific NGT lines. DARWIN also brings innovation in the new application of digital solutions such as data spaces and documentation-based screening to increase the data evidence to NGTs; blockchains to enable transparent and traceable detection along the food chain; AI models; and a Decision Support System to improve accuracy and support the selection of the best fit for purpose detection methods. DARWIN will reach TRL4-5 though validation including in-house, transferability and full trials, and presenting 3 cases representative of real situations relevant for NGT products in the EU agri-food market. After methods validation and the definition of a clear oriented detection strategy, DARWIN will theoretically extrapolate its finding to more complex scenarios encountering the diversity of NGT lines and food products that might reach EU markets. All this, under an interdisciplinary co-creation ecosystem based on Responsible Research and innovation (RRI) principals, empowering a wide variety of stakeholders - including consumers - in Europe and internationally; and robustly contributing to the policy making.

Interoperable applications suite to enhance European identity and document Security and fraud detection

Combatting frauds on identity and travel documents is a key mission of law enforcement agencies and border guards. Industries have been working on new means to combat frauds on identity, and public authorities are using numerous technologies to accomplish their mission, but permanent innovation is required to fight highly skilled defrauders. A number of European innovation projects have tested new ways to combat fraud but few of them reached an operational level.
EINSTEIN objectives is to enhance significantly existing public authorities’ means through innovation, building on technologies proven in the labs but not mature for an operational usage yet. EINSTEIN will deliver six applications essential to fight identity frauds: 1) online ID issuance using a secure cloud-based server for real-time biometric quality checks and fraud detection, 2) mobile document and identity checks using commercially available smartphones, 3) document authentication module to detect fraudulent documents, 4) pre-registration for land-border crossings including biometrics and DTC, 5) EES kiosk with advanced fraud detection using video surveillance, 6) fast track for enrolled travelers using on-the-move face and iris. To ensure TRL7 at a minimum, practitioners will run six different pilot use cases in their own environment. A key objective is also to ensure interoperability and flexibility of all the components developed in the project so that they can be reused in different contexts, possibly by different providers. Design of open, well-defined, standardized interfaces will allow achieving this objective.
Privacy being an essential concern of all European citizens and governments, EINSTEIN will take into account privacy-by-design principles, developing flexible components to ease their customization in order to meet not only the European legislation on data protection but also national legislations on this matter, which vary significantly from one country to the other.


Waste in humanitarian Operations: Reduction and Minimisation

Waste in humanitarian Operations: Reduction and Minimisation (WORM)'s overall objective is designing guidelines and support actions for circular economy in the humanitarian sector. WORM focuses on two selected settings: field hospital deployments, and humanitarian livelihood programmes with a waste picking component. Across these settings, the project focuses on several cross-cutting focus areas: 
•	the integration of bio-based technological innovation solutions in the humanitarian context, 
•	using procurement as a gatekeeper for waste avoidance, and gateway to integrate innovative solutions, 
•	improvements in waste management, and the use of less polluting waste treatment methods, 
•	a specific focus on the sustainable livelihoods of waste pickers, and 
•	policy development, advocacy and a heightened local awareness of improved waste management in the relevant local contexts.
Following a multi-actor approach, WORM brings together medical humanitarian organisations and humanitarian organisations with livelihood programmes with innovation and supplier clusters, procurement service providers, logistics service providers, waste management service providers and academic partners. WORM seeks to involve a myriad of different stakeholders in data collection and policy development, including but not limited to, humanitarian actors positioned in the field during an operation, local waste management companies, start-ups focusing on bio-based solutions, policymakers (both local and global), and research institutions. WORM includes partners from low- and middle-income countries (esp. Kenya, Viet Nam) since humanitarian operations are often implemented in these contexts. WORM will focus on these contexts in their local awareness campaigns for improved waste management.

Supporting Policy Regulations and Interventions to Negate aggravated Global diarrheal disease due to future climate Shocks

BACKGROUND: Global warming and climate extremes such as heavy precipitation, flooding, and drought are increasing risks for waterborne diarrheal disease. While these effects already burden low- and middle-income countries, where diarrheal diseases are the second leading cause of childhood deaths, Europe has shared and underappreciated vulnerabilities. There is an urgent need to prepare and protect our water and communities from these threats.
AIM: To inform key climate, environmental, and health adaptation policies, in order to support and prepare citizens, communities and governments by better measuring the impact of future climate shocks on the burden of water-borne diarrheal diseases.
APPROACH: We bring together scientists from climate, environment, health, and social sciences to collaborate with communities, industry, public authorities and policy makers across socioeconomic settings. We will model the future impact of global climate change, on local water quality and quantity, and diarrheal disease outcomes. In case studies in Ghana, Tanzania, Italy, and Romania, we will measure current interactions of climate, behaviour, and water quality on pathogen-specific diarrheal disease risks and the safety of water supply systems. We will engage individuals and communities to understand situated understandings and practices to improve risk communication and ownership. With policy makers, we will design appraisal structures to assess the economic impact and value of planetary health interventions to prevent climate-related diarrheal disease.
IMPACT: SPRINGS will improve integrated climate and health surveillance, create climate-resilient water supply systems, engage citizens and stakeholders, and use evidence-based value assessments to prioritise interventions to prevent climate-induced diarrheal disease.  Long term adaptive capacity and climate-resilience will increase in Europe and beyond, preventing unnecessary illness and deaths from waterborne diarrheal disease.

COordination MEchanism for Cohorts and Trials

The overall goal of COMECT is to coordinate activities across Europe’s strategic adaptive platform trials (APTs) and cohort studies (CS) on infectious diseases (IDs) with epidemic or pandemic potential, by overseeing and facilitating dialogue, sharing of good practices, promoting collaboration and coordination across studies and providing updated information on initiatives and innovation in ID clinical research.
COMECT will build on and strengthen existing networks and infrastructure. These include EU-funded coordination mechanisms and networks, namely the Trial Coordination Board (TCB), Joint Access Advisory Mechanism (JAAM), the Cohort Coordination Board (CCB), and the ECRAID Coordinating Comittee. COMECT will develop a visible, well-defined coordination mechanism to highlight Europe's capacity and competence as an attractive base for clinical research.

COMECT will deliver:
1) an expanded, combined  European coordination mechanism that will work on harmonizing research initiatives, exchange of good practices, and stakeholder engagement across ID clinical studies in outbreaks and during inter-epidemic phases.
2) a strengthened JAAM to support coordination through independent scientific assessment of compounds/vaccines and recommendations for APTs to evaluate the new compound in new or adapted platform trials.
3) the mapping of stakeholders and their respective activities relevant to APTs and CS
4) a harmonised approach cross-study identification, assessment, and reuse of participant-level data from European APTs and CS
5) coherent communications and stakeholder engagement across all activities
6) a sustainability plan for the continuation of activities beyond the funding period.

COMECT will quickly adapt coordination efforts to a changing research landscape and to new ID threats. COMECT will operate in close collaboration with other emergency preparedness mechanisms, such as HERA, EMA, GLOPiD-R and the European Pandemic Preparedness Partnership.

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Gene targeting experiments for medical research: Elucidation of relationship between genotype and phenotype in mouse stomach

Klimaendringer vil føre til flere stormer, flommer og skogbranner, men varmere temperaturer og høyere CO2 -konsentrasjoner kan også øke veksttakten i de boreale barskogene i Nord -Europa. Disse risikoene og mulighetene påvirker hverandre og flere av effektene kommer ikke i full styrke før om mange tiår.  TaigaClimate utvikler beregningsmodeller av skogøkosystemer og menneskelige aktiviteter, som igjen kan brukes til å lage prognoser for fremtidige konsekvenser av et endret klima og forskjellige måter å forvalte skog og vilt på. For å bygge modellene bruker vi eksisterende og ny kunnskap om alle de viktige delene av systemet, inkludert trær og vegetasjon, hjortevilt og andre planteetere, ulv og andre rovdyr, naturlige forstyrrelser fra stormer og brann, og menneskelige aktiviteter. Vi samarbeider med menneskene som er berørt av disse endringene , spesifikt skogeiere, naturvernere, jegere, bær- og sopplukkere, turgåere og hyttefolk. Interesseorganisasjonene for disse brukerne hjelper oss med å utvikle sannsynlige fremtidsscenarier . Dette inkluderer å ta stilling til kostnader, nytte og inntekter av skogøkosystemets ulike verdier, som  skogbruk, rekreasjon, landskap- og iboende verdier. 

De resulterende modellprognosene basert på ulike klimascenarier og forvaltningsmuligheter vil bli  brukt til å vurdere hvordan man best forvalter skog og dyreliv og hvordan ulike alternativer slår ut for ulike brukergrupper. Vi vil utvikle et webbasert modellverktøy som vil være åpent tilgjengelig for alle som ønsker å bruke slike analyser for et skogområde. Prosjektet vårt er det første som foretar kvantitative analyser av de langsiktige effektene av klimaendringer på nordiske viltbestander og skogdynamikk i et fullt økosystemperspektiv og inkludert menneskelige aktiviteter. Dette vil hjelpe beslutningstagere og interessenter med å forme en god fremtid for de boreale skogene, deres dyreliv og folk.

Climate change will bring storms, fire, and pressure on wildlife, but also enhanced growth potential in the forests. We have a basic understanding of each of these risks and opportunities, but the challenge is that they are interacting and require long-term foresight to be successfully managed. This can only be accomplished if we can look into the future consequence of alternative strategies in a whole system perspective. By creating a prognostic system model, we will assess future prospects for forestry (species, management options), wildlife populations (deer, predators) and biodiversity. A user tool based on a machine learning-approximation of the model will allow us to explore the huge space of possible options to find optimal and sustainable solutions. A user-friendly application of this powerful tool will be made available online to enable forest owners, policy makers and the public to make their own assessments under different climate change scenarios.

The project runs over four years and consists of six work packages. WP1 will make use of stakeholders’ insights and needs to define relevant scenarios for the prognostic systems model developed in WP4. The model depends on scientific inputs on direct and indirect, interacting climate effects on forests and their management (WP2) and wildlife (WP3). Finally in WP4, the model will be tested by stakeholders and translated into an open access application. Dissemination and communication (WP5) and project management (WP0) are integrative parts of the entire process. The project is a collaboration between three research institutions and eight non-academic partners representing private landowners, state-owned forests, hunters, berry and mushroom pickers, nature conservation, and training in the forestry sector. Two PhD-positions will strengthen recruitment into collaborative, applied research.

Forests and wildlife under pressure – systems analysis for sustainable solutions

Utmarksbeiting har i mange århundrer vært en viktig ressurs for norsk matproduksjon, ikke minst fordi tilgangen til dyrka mark er begrenset av klimatiske forhold. De store rovdyrene bjørn, ulv, gaupe og jerv som førte til skader i husdyrbesetningene ble derfor forfulgt og helt eller delvis utryddet på slutten av 1800-tallet. Vernebestemmelser gjorde at rovdyrene nå er tilbake i deler av deres opprinnelige utbredelsesområder. Det er en politisk målsetting om å bevare både utmarksbeiting og rovdyrene, men geografisk atskilt i ulike soner. Denne arealdifferensierte forvaltningen blir utfordret av at rovdyrene bruker store leveområder og kan streife langt. Vårt prosjekt "Beiting i rovdyrskogen" ser på muligheten til å bruke utmarka til husdyrbeiting i skogområder med alle fire store rovdyr tilstede, sørøst i Norge mot grensen til Sveriges rovviltbestander. Utmarksbeiting vil sees i sammenheng med skogbruks- og jaktinteresser, samt artsmangfoldet. 
Vår første arbeidspakke er viet til storfe i utmark: Hvor, hvordan og med hvilke driftsformer skjer skader? Vi ser også på stressnivået hos storfe som beiter i områder med ulv og bjørn, og hvordan rovdyrene beveger seg i forhold til storfeflokkene i utmarka. Det finnes to forsøk innenfor ulvesonen der man har sau på utmarksbeite i store, rovviltavvisende gjerder. I arbeidspakke 2 evaluerer vi dette tiltaket i forhold til rovdyrangrep, skogbruk og klauvviltets områdebruk. I arbeidspakke 3 tar vi for oss beitingens betydning for mangfoldet av planter og pollinatorer i skogsområder. I den siste arbeidspakken bruker vi resultatene fra de første tre arbeidspakkene for en kostnad-nytte analyse og kartlegger rovdyrutsatte skogområder for egnetheten av ulike former for utmarksbeiting. Ut fra dette planlegger vi arbeidsmøter for å diskutere tiltak, innovasjon og målrettet økonomisk støtte.
I arbeidspakke 1 som omhandler storfe og rovvilt har vi i år ordnet tilgang til ulike databaser, deriblant statistikk på tap til rovvilt fra Miljødirektoratet, produksjonstilskudd for utmarksbeiting og organisert beitebruk fra Landbruksdirektoratet, og husdyrregisteret fra Mattilsynet. Vi kombinerer nå databasene for å beregne tetthet av storfe på utmarksbeite, samt områder med tap. Vi har også utarbeidet en stor spørreundersøkelse i samarbeid med Bondelaget, TYR, Statsforvalteren i Innlandet og noen brukere. Denne vil sendes ut til nesten 5000 bønder fra Viken i sør til Trøndelag i nord i slutten av oktober 2021. Målet med undersøkelsen er å kartlegge erfaringer med storfe i utmark. Utenom rovviltproblematikken dekker den også konflikter rundt skogbruk og friluftsliv, sykdom, ulykker og mye mer. 
Det finnes mange erfaringer, kunnskap og statistikk også utenfor våre landegrenser. Vi har som et ledd i arbeidspakke 1 samlet inn data om storfetetthet, forekomst av rovdyr og tapsstatistikk i mange europeiske og nordamerikanske land, og vi har intervjuet landbruksforvaltningen. Resultatene er sammenstilt i en masteroppgave som vi nå ønsker å publisere. 
Vi har et samarbeid med syv storfebønder for overvåking av deres ammekyr. For dette formålet kjøpte vi 70 storfeklaver fra den norske bedriften Nofence, og hjalp to bønder med søknader for ytterlige 60 klaver. Dermed klarte vi å kartlegge forflytningsmønsteret til 130 ammekyr hvert femte minutt mens de var på utmarksbeite i 2021. Vi har også samlet inn aktivitetsdata fra akselerometeret som er innebygd i klaven, for utvalgte dyr i flere dager. Dyrene ble samtidig filmet i felt, og deres atferd ble deretter lest ut av videomaterialet og tidsfestet. Ti mordyr fikk operert inn en biosensor som målte kontinuerlig hjerteraten og kroppstemperatur. Kombinasjonen av alle disse datasettene vil brukes til å kartlegge dyrenes atferd og energibruk. 
I samarbeid med Interregprosjektet Grensevilt har vi fulgt opp to storfebesetninger innenfor reviret til en GPS-merket ulv. For de kommende to år satser vi på flere merkinger av ulv og bjørn for å kartlegge deres forflytninger i forhold til beiteområder og studere kyrnes respons på nærvær av rovvilt. 
For arbeidspakke 3 som ser på effekter av beiting på biodiversitet og skogbruket har vi før beitesesongen satt opp 72 prøveflater på ungskogflater innen- og utenfor beiteområdene. Halvparten av prøveflatene er inngjerdet for å utelukke beiting. Prøveflatene uten gjerde er overvåket med viltkamera. På prøveflatene har vi i starten og slutten av beitesesongen registrert vegetasjonshøyde, skader på trær, og møkk fra husdyr og hjortevilt. Dessuten har vi gjennom hele juli kartlagt blomstringen og fanget besøkende insekter. Vi holder nå på med artsbestemmelse for å beskrive artsmangfoldet av bestøvende insekter.
Prosjektet produserer mye data, og vi har derfor rekruttert en Postdoc og to nye stipendiater gjennom Høgskolen i Innlandet og Nottingham Trent University. Dessuten veileder vi for tiden en master- og to bachelorstudenter. Flere utenlandske praksisstudenter har hjulpet i sommer med datainnsamling.

The recovery of large carnivores in the Scandinavian boreal forest has limited the potential of free-ranging sheep production in the outfields due to depredation. Policy-makers have decided to keep outfield-based sheep production spatially separated from carnivores by zoning management. However, we envision carnivore-compatible livestock production in the outfields that enhances tree growth in young forest stands, increases pollinator abundance and diversity and contributes to local and regional economy and food security. This can be achieved by having cattle rather than sheep free-ranging in the forest. Smaller livestock needs to be protected with carnivore-proof fences. Both measures are realized in some areas, but have not been evaluated. There is a large need for knowledge on how livestock production in the forested carnivore zones successfully can trigger local and regional economy and at the same time ensure carnivore conservation and ecosystem services, such as forestry, pollinator diversity and game harvest. We here propose a novel research project with four working packages. WP1 focuses on free-ranging cattle in carnivore-exposed, forested areas. We will evaluate this practice with regard to depredation statistics and user experience. We will also study cattle-carnivore interactions and animal welfare with the help of GPS-collars on sympatric cattle, wolves and bears, and biosensors in cows to assess animal welfare. WP2 evaluates the use of large sheep enclosures in commercial forests based on depredation statistics, stakeholder interviews, and distribution of game species. In WP3, we measure the abundance and diversity of plants and pollinators, and forest regeneration in areas with and without grazing. Finally, we complement the results of WP1-3 with cost-benefit analyses in WP 4 and build a spatial suitability model for sustainable, carnivore-compatible livestock production. We initiate workshops to discuss innovation and subsidy policies.

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Gene targeting experiments for medical research: Elucidation of relationship between genotype and phenotype in mouse stomach

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