Find out how National Restoration Plans are developing and progressing, what lessons are there and what makes a successful plan.
Session I: Overview and update on the NRR implementation
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Meet the speakers
Eirini Glyki, European Environmental Agency
Eirini is coordinator of marine restoration at EEA.
Eirini Glyki is a marine scientist with a background in physics and ecology and focus on Marine Socio-Ecological systems.
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Sabien Leemans, WWF, Restore Nature coalition
Sabien is a Senior Biodiversity Policy Officer at the WWF EU Policy Office in Brussels. She chairs the European Habitats Forum, and has been closely following the development of the National Restoration Plans (NRP) as WWF representative for the Restore Nature coalition. In this function, she has been actively involved, among others, in the coalition’s development of guidelines for ambitious NRP and its mid-term assessment of the NRP development process.
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Aveliina Helm, chair Society for Ecological Restoration
Aveliina is professor at the University of Tartu and leader of the Landscape Biodiversity Workgroup, part of the Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Land Use (FutureScapes). Her research focuses on landscape-scale biodiversity dynamics, ecosystem functioning, and ecological restoration under global change. Her work also addresses the socio-economic dimensions of restoration and conservation, including the valuation of ecosystem services and the role of human decision-making in shaping ecological outcomes. Aveliina Helm is an expert for IPBES, having served as Lead Author of the Regional Assessment for Europe and Central Asia and Review Editor for the Invasive Alien Species Assessment. She currently chairs the board of the Society for Ecological Restoration – European Chapter (SER Europe).
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