+Biodiversity@CIÊNCIAS: Mobilizing CIÊNCIAS community for the improvement of the campus biodiversity and livelihood

From 2020 to 2021

+Biodiversity@CIÊNCIAS aims to enhance sustainability in the Faculty of Science campus and it assumes biodiversity as the pillar sustaining ecosystems and their services and, consequently, human well-being. In this context, the project intends to apply the concept of sustainability in FCUL's green spaces by characterizing and improving the green spaces of the campus. We would love to count on your support and collaboration in the implementation of the project. Please, install the iNaturalist app in your mobile phone, join the +Biodiversidade@Ciências/font> project and start registering species! You can also follow us in the Twitter, Instagram and Facebook to find out more about the project and to stay up-to-date about the next initiatives.

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UrbanA - Urban Arenas for sustainable and just cities

From 2019 to 2021

UrbanA seeks to advance the transformation of cities across Europe into inclusive, sustainable, and thriving urban and peri-urban environments. UrbanA will synthesize insights and experiences generated in previous EU-funded projects that have, in the process of addressing urban solutions for grand societal challenges, identified drivers of urban inequalities and social exclusion. In doing so, the project will develop new and integrated approaches to inform the way in which cities are governed and planned to be environmentally sustainable, resilient, equitable, and inclusive.

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BEACON - Bridging European and Local Climate Action

From 2018 to 2021

Bridging European and Local Climate Action (BEACON) is a project promoting climate action and facilitating an exchange between national governments as well as municipalities and schools in Europe. The aim of the project is to strengthen bi- and multilateral cooperation and create common ambition to realize the Paris Agreement. Through joint learning, networking and tailored advisory services, policy-makers, municipal actors and educators will gain technical and process-related skills that help them develop, refine and implement measures for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

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BIO-LX – Biodiversity monitoring in the city of Lisbon

From 2019 to 2020

Lisbon is home to a diversified faunal community, due to its location and variety of green infrastructures with, for instance, 140 bird species already identified in the city. Biodiversity is essential for the maintenance of ecosystems and associated services, so it is important to understand its association with the different urban habitats and identify which factors potentially influence its richness and abundance.

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BIOVEINS - Connectivity of green and blue infrastructures: living veins for biodiverse and healthy cities

From 2017 to 2020

The main objective of our BIOVEINS proposal is to use functional diversity to highlight the mechanisms underpinning the link between urban green and blue infrastructure (GBI), taxonomic diversity and ecosystem services provisioning, and to provide, together with local stakeholders, the ecological and interdisciplinary knowledge to identify the critical features of GBI, to guide the establishment, management and restoration of GBI, and to mitigate the effects of major urban global challenges, like habitat fragmentation, air pollution, and urban heat island.

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PLACARD - PLAtform for Climate Adaptation and Risk reDuction

From 2015 to 2020

PLACARD will tackle current challenges by 1) providing a common ‘space’ where CCA and DRR communities can come together, share experiences and create opportunities for collaboration; 2) facilitating communication and knowledge exchange between both communities; and 3) supporting the coordination and coherence of CCA and DRR research, policy and practice.

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PIMQUERLoures - PLANO INTEGRADO DE MONITORIZAÇÃO DA QUALIDADE ECOLÓGICA DAS ZONAS RIPÍCOLAS DO MUNICÍPIO DE LOURES

From 2018 to 2019

The Project intends to monitor the ecological quality of water, and riparian plant and animal communities, including exotic invader species, accounting for the planned requalification of those areas. This will be done by monitoring biodiversity and the effects of particular actions against exotics.

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GLUE - Global Urban Evolution Project

From 2017 to 2019

The GLUE project is an initiative that will provide the largest scale, best replicated test of parallel evolution ever attempted. To do so, this project focus on the study of the evolution of the production of hydrogen cyanide (HCN) in white clover (Trifolium repens). It has been previously showed that white clover evolves parallel clines in HCN (a potent chemical defense) along urban-rural gradients in eastern North America.

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PMAACO - Plano Municipal de Adaptação às Alterações Climáticas de Oeiras

From 2017 to 2019

Due to the expected challenges of climate change, the development of adaptive capacity at municipal level becomes particularly relevant, given the essentially local characteristics of adaptation to climate change. Therefore, PMAACO aims to improve the adaptive capacity in the Oeiras territory to climate change, through the implementation of effective measures to reduce vulnerability, and increase systems resilience.

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GreenGA - Green Gardens - Azores

From 2016 to 2019

The gardens of the Azores are of significant heritage value, in terms of their history, botany and landscape. The aim of the project is the scientific and technological consolidation of “Garden Tourism” in the Azores, regarding its historic gardens as a specific tourist product with great potential to promote the destination.

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MedMossRoofs - Urban green covers based on mosses with no irrigation requirements under Mediterranean climate

From 2016 to 2018

The main objective of the project will be to explore the use of moss dominated biocrusts as a solution to the green roofs of urban landscape avoiding irrigation, based on a diversity of native moss species retrieved from different locations in Portugal reflecting different climatic conditions and thus different adaptations and tolerances to the urban environment.

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Monitoring studies of floristic and faunistic communities and environmental services assessment of Almada

From 2016 to 2018

This project aims to: i) perform studies and projects about the restoration of high ecological value ecosystems; ii) develop and monitor the LTER-Almada site; iii) promote the connectivity in the Ecological Corridor Network of Almada.

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GREEN SURGE - Green Infrastructure and Urban Biodiversity for Sustainable Urban Development and the Green Economy

From 2014 to 2017

GREEN SURGE will identify, develop and test ways of linking green spaces, biodiversity, people and the green economy in order to meet the major urban challenges related to land use conflicts, climate change adaptation, demographic changes, and human health and wellbeing. It will provide a sound evidence base for urban green infrastructure planning and implementation, exploring the potential for innovation in better linking environmental, social and economic ecosystem services with local communities.

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ClimAdaPT.Local - Municipal Strategies for Adaptation to Climate Change

From 2014 to 2016

ClimAdaPT.Local project is aligned with the main aims of the European Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change and of the National Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change (ENAAC), and is demonstrating that the European Economic Area Grants (EEA Grants) and the Portuguese Carbon Fund (FPC) are effectively promoting adaptation at local level in Portugal.

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BASE - Bottom-up climate Adaptation Strategies towards a Sustainable Europe

From 2012 to 2016

This project supports action for sustainable climate change adaptation in Europe. The intention is to evaluate the environmental, social and economic impacts, the costs and benefits, policy coherence and stakeholder perceptions of different climate adaptation pathways from an interdisciplinary perspective.

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Monitoring restoration of ecosystem of ecological high value and development of restoration procedures for ecological continuities on roads and riparian corridors

From 2014 to 2015

The project aims to promote biodiversity in the Municipality of Almada, complying the Local Action Plan for Biodiversity. Our goal is to monitor high value communities and habitats and implement measures to minimize fragmentation and promote habitat continuity.

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FCUL Green Roof

FCUL's green roof is a pilot project for future installation of green roofs in other buildings of the University of Lisbon. It aimed to assess their evolution, thus contributing to a better understanding of the functioning and sustainability of these structures in Mediterranean areas.

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