Designing research. Driving innovation.
From scientific questions to research consortia, advanced methods and practical environmental tools. Explore our European partnerships, international cooperation and regional initiatives.
Ideas become impact.
Our portfolio brings together awarded projects, completed programmes, ongoing research and future proposals. Roles vary from scientific coordination and work-package leadership to specialised research contributions.
Research in motion.
WISE
A four-year European project using urban sustainability as a test-bed for research excellence, innovation, institutional development and stronger links between universities and territories.
WASTEREDUCE
Cross-border environmental research and management involving protected and coastal ecosystems in Italy and Croatia.
Sustainable Coffee Tanzania
Research, training and capacity building for a more sustainable and climate-resilient coffee value chain in Mbeya, Songwe and Ruvuma, Southern Tanzania.
BIOCONMOZ · Chimanimani
Submitted cooperation proposal for biodiversity monitoring, remote sensing and sustainable natural-resource management in Chimanimani National Park, Mozambique. Under evaluation; not yet funded.
WALL-ECO · Ecosystem Values of Dry Stone Walls
A submitted six-unit proposal examining dry-stone walls as ecological infrastructure linking soil and water dynamics, plant and animal diversity, landscape connectivity and rural heritage. Under evaluation, not yet funded.
BIOVERTE
International higher-education initiative focused on biodiversity, ecological skills and advanced training.
Biodiversity safeguards guided by fieldwork and connectivity.
For a hydropower project near Subulussalam, specialist ecological expertise supports a Biodiversity Action Plan, Critical Habitat Assessment, field-validated satellite mapping and quantitative connectivity-informed offset strategies.
Explore the Sumatra consultancy, field gallery and spatial models ↗
Plant diversity from the ground to satellite imagery.
Habitat classification, wetland distribution mapping and field validation for a hydropower environmental assessment, undertaken with ELC Electroconsult. The precise study location and technical results remain confidential.
Explore the Lesotho case study and field photography ↗
Ecology inside a major infrastructure project.
Long-term work on forest and watershed management, biodiversity safeguards, biomass removal, mitigation and compensation for Tanahu Hydropower, with repeated field missions and local-expert coordination.
Explore Tanahu Hydropower and its 77-photo mission archive ↗Europe as a living laboratory.
Research, cross-border cooperation and advanced training through Horizon Europe, Interreg, Erasmus Mundus, LIFE and earlier European programmes.
WISE
A four-year European project using urban sustainability as a test-bed for research excellence, innovation, institutional development and stronger links between universities and territories.
BIOVERTE
International higher-education initiative focused on biodiversity, ecological skills and advanced training.
MountResilience
Climate adaptation for European mountain regions, with Biodiversity Lab developing biodiversity GIS and a locally adapted participatory PPGIS pathway for the Friuli Venezia Giulia replicator.
PALLIPES
Cross-border conservation of the white-clawed crayfish through eDNA monitoring, riparian-habitat assessment, species distribution models and joint restoration strategies in Italy and Slovenia.
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WASTEREDUCE
Cross-border environmental research and management involving protected and coastal ecosystems in Italy and Croatia.
SPARE
A cross-border applied-research project developing circular hemp value chains, innovative applications and an interactive WebGIS for the hemp supply-chain network.
GLOB-ECO · Erasmus Mundus Design
Design of an international master programme in Global Change Ecology and Sustainability, laying the foundations for the funded BIOVERTE Joint Master.
Stronger Together
International teaching and research cooperation linking Silesia, Vytautas Magnus University and Trieste.
Transform4Europe · 2020–2024 phase
An inter-university alliance for international mobility, innovative higher education and interdisciplinary collaboration.
SECAP
Science-based support for energy policies and climate adaptation, including future effects on vegetation and biodiversity.
NO WASTE
A cross-border itinerary connecting flax, hemp and nettle with biodiversity, circular resource use, cultural heritage and sustainable tourism.
CS-MON · Citizen Science Monitoring
Participatory environmental and biodiversity monitoring through citizen-science methods and public engagement.
LIFE+ · Invasive species and inland wetlands
Control of invasive alien species to restore threatened inland-wetland habitats in northern Tuscany.
LIFE+ RESILFOR
Restoration of beech-dominated forests with silver fir in the Tuscan–Marche Apennines.
FIRESENSE
Multi-sensor detection and management of fire and extreme-weather risks affecting valuable natural and cultural landscapes.
BIO_SOS · From space to species
Multi-source biodiversity monitoring combining Earth-observation technologies, field ecology and habitat assessment.
EU-BON
Building a European Biodiversity Observation Network to strengthen biodiversity monitoring and knowledge exchange.
Partnerships beyond borders.
Joint research and capacity building with international academic, institutional and local partners. Submitted cooperation proposals are labelled separately from funded initiatives.
Sustainable Coffee Tanzania
Research, training and capacity building for a more sustainable and climate-resilient coffee value chain in Mbeya, Songwe and Ruvuma, Southern Tanzania.
BIOCONMOZ · Chimanimani
Submitted cooperation proposal for biodiversity monitoring, remote sensing and sustainable natural-resource management in Chimanimani National Park, Mozambique. Under evaluation; not yet funded.
Ecology in practice, worldwide.
Long-term environmental consulting, ecological field assessment and expert support for international environmental safeguards, mitigation, compensation and habitat management.
Lae Kumbhi Hydropower · Biodiversity safeguards & offset strategy
International biodiversity consultancy for Lae Kumbhi Hydropower near Subulussalam, Sumatra: Critical Habitat Assessment, Biodiversity Action Plan, field-validated habitat maps and quantitative connectivity-informed offset planning.
Tanahu Hydropower · Forest & biodiversity consultancy
Long-term forest, watershed and biodiversity consultancy for the Tanahu Hydropower Project on the Seti River near Damauli, Nepal.
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Investing in new research questions.
Nationally funded projects and competitive University of Trieste research grants connecting botanical research, new methods and ecological monitoring.
Completed projects3
From Traits to Functions
Understanding the success of invasive plant species in natural communities through functional traits under climate-change scenarios.
Functional traits & invasion potential
Using plant functional traits to examine the invasive potential of alien species in different native plant communities.
IDEM-FLOS
Multimedia tools for identifying and monitoring urban flora and its responses to environmental stress.
Research rooted in the territory.
Applied ecological research supporting regional administrations, environmental management and spatial planning.
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Trieste ecological network & ecosystem services
Design of the city’s ecological network and assessment of associated urban ecosystem services.
Eco-Mosaico del Carso
Ecological and spatial assessment of the Classical Karst mosaic to inform conservation, landscape management and resilience.
Building capacity to see further.
Strategic investments in multi-sensor Earth observation that make new research questions possible.
LiDAR · Three-dimensional ecosystem observation
A DJI Matrice 400 and Zenmuse L3 platform for three-dimensional vegetation structure, habitat complexity and environmental assessment.
Integrated UAV hyperspectral & thermal sensing
An integrated DJI Matrice 300 RTK platform with Cubert Ultris X20 Plus and FLIR thermal sensors for ecological Earth observation.
Questions across landscapes.
Independent research linking cultural landscapes, vegetation diversity and spatial technologies.
Ideas in development.
Submitted and emerging project concepts, presented separately from funded projects. Status may change during evaluation.
ECOEXP
Proposal to transfer marine-litter monitoring and prevention approaches into participatory ecotourism, environmental education and sustainable management of Adriatic destinations.
WALL-ECO · Ecosystem Values of Dry Stone Walls
A submitted six-unit proposal examining dry-stone walls as ecological infrastructure linking soil and water dynamics, plant and animal diversity, landscape connectivity and rural heritage. Under evaluation, not yet funded.
WiFOOD
Wild food plants, climate adaptation and resilient rural livelihoods in Tanzania, integrating habitat models and environmental change.
NatPro-Urban
A proposed interdisciplinary micro-credential on natural processes and ecosystem services in urban-industrial landscapes.
Have a project in mind?
We welcome research partnerships for Horizon Europe, Interreg, COST and international cooperation, from field ecology and biodiversity assessment to LiDAR, hyperspectral remote sensing and spatial modelling.