Global Network

The Global Red seeks to provide a communication framework that facilitates and promotes the exchange of good practices and experiences, as well as collaborative work between projects and institutions, promoting the replication and transferability of the results of LIFE GLOBAL, incorporating conclusions from other European projects (LIFE or no), the experiences of competent European bodies in the conservation of habitats and priority species in Natura 2000, and the knowledge of European institutions and researchers related to this topic.

This will be achieved through the establishment of a two-way information exchange network, called RED GLOBAL, which will facilitate an environment in which synergies are fostered and collaborative activities are developed that contribute to improving knowledge and developing capabilities. The establishment of this network seeks to have an appropriate representation of other EU member states with analogies regarding the starting situation, needs and solutions, these are, including projects and initiatives on the management of habitats and priority species, just like LIFE GLOBAL.

LIFE projects related to priority habitats and species in Natura 2000 have been searched, connecting with a total of 6 LIFE projects. Among these projects are 5 LIFE Naturaleza (NAT) projects, as well as one of the calls for the European Solidarity Group (ESC), which has carried out volunteer actions whose main conclusions will be incorporated into LIFE GLOBAL. All these projects will be involved in LIFE GLOBAL through the celebration of volunteer days, transfer days and replication, as well as visits and networking seminars.

To capture its main results, RED GLOBAL will include 3 projects:

“INCREDIBLE – Innovation Networks of Cork, Resins and Edibles in the Mediterranean basin” financed through the Programa Marco de Investigación e Innovación FP8 (Horizonte 2020), whose objectives are coherent with the measures and actions of LIFE GLOBAL, mainly in relation to measures for sustainable forest management over habitat 9560*.
LIFE ARCOS Project (LIFE13NAT/ES/000883), coordinated by the University of Oviedo, which has launched an interesting in situ and ex situ conservation strategy for improving the genetic diversity of species characteristic of priority habitats, enabling the production of reproductive material for restoration of natural habitats of local and compatible origin.
“WaterLANDS – Water-based solutions for carbon storage, people and wilderness”, financed through the Marco de Investigación e Innovación Program FP8 (Horizonte 2020), whose main objective is the increase in the restoration of wetlands through the increase in the knowledge of the best practices, coherent with the measures and actions of LIFE GLOBAL, mainly in relation to measures for the restoration of native habitats of continental wetlands (1510*, 3170*, 4020*, 6230*, 7210*), establishing progress indicators that allow evaluating the success of restoration in terms of ecosystem services. The project partnership is led by University College Dublin (UCD), based in Ireland, although the project has a transnational scope (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Holland, Poland, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom).

These projects will be involved in LIFE GLOBAL through the celebration of visits and networking seminars. However, the main results and conclusions of LIFE NAT projects previously carried out by LIFE GLOBAL partners will also be incorporated, which have implemented a series of innovative combined techniques for the conservation of priority habitats and species: LIFE TREMEDAL (LIFE11 NAT/ES/000707), LIFE OREKA MENDIAN (LIFE15 NAT/ES/000805), LIFE BACCATA (LIFE15 NAT/ES/000790) and LIFE RIVER (LIFE16 NAT/ES/000771).

This network will also include a total of 3 competent bodies at European level (France, Ireland), 4 competent bodies at national level (Spain, Portugal), 5 competent regional administrations, and 13 local entities (among which are included councils, local entities and provincial departments), which have shown their support for LIFE GLOBAL. This will enable beneficiaries of the LIFE GLOBAL project to have access to knowledge and good practices that are being carried out in other European territories (France, Ireland) or around the project.

All involved administrations will receive the transfer of LIFE GLOBAL results first hand, promoting their replicability within the scope of competence of each of them. Competent bodies will be involved in LIFE GLOBAL. through the celebration of volunteer days, meetings with groups considered transfer and replication days, assistance at the final seminar, as well as through visits to their territories, invitation to visit the LIFE GLOBAL locations and count on their assistance at networking seminars.

Likewise, RED GLOBAL will include 7 involved agents and groups considered (private owners, farmers/farmers/foresters), and 12 institutions, researchers and environmental entities, from Spain, France and Italy, interested in the results of the project (see composition in the following table). The inclusion of these in RED GLOBAL will favor the transferability and replicability of the results of LIFE GLOBAL, will increase awareness about the important role of priority habitats and species hosted by vulnerable scenarios of high conservation value, in Red Natura 2000 and the LIFE program, and will increase the communication of the project to through its own broadcast networks. Both agents and groups considered, as well as institutions, researchers and environmental entities, will be involved in LIFE GLOBAL through the celebration of volunteering days, meetings with groups considered transfer and replication days, assistance at the final seminar, as well as counting on their assistance in networking seminars.