

Ireland

United Kingdom

Finland

Finland

Finland

Belgium

Belgium

Germany
Trees4Adapt Partners
Tree-based Solutions 4 Climate Change Adaptation & Biodiversity Conservation









Tree-based Solutions 4 Climate Change Adaptation & Biodiversity Conservation
Role in Project
Luke coordinates the Trees4Adapt project and leads Work Packages WP3 'Assessing the economics of tree-based solutions', and WP6 'Project coordination & administration'.
Contact:
Michael Pashkevich | michael.pashkevich@luke.fi
Katharina Albrich | katharina.albrich@luke.fi
Jacqueline Moustakas-Verho | jacqueline.moustakas-verho@luke.fi
Aino Assmuth | aino.assmuth@luke.fi
ERINN is a dynamic Irish SME established in 2017, dedicated to bridging the gap between science, policy, industry and society through effective knowledge management and transfer. ERINN specialises in science communication, knowledge transfer and stakeholder engagement to maximise research impact. With extensive experience across EU programmes, ERINN supports projects from conception to legacy, transforming cutting-edge science into actionable solutions for tangible societal benefits.
Role in Project
ERINN Innovation is responsible for leading the communication activities within Work Package 5 of Trees4Adapt. The team supports the project’s visibility and impact by developing strategic messaging, managing dissemination channels, and ensuring that project outputs reach relevant audiences across Europe.
Role in Project
FMI is responsible for leading task 1.1. in WP1. This task focuses on understanding microclimate dynamics and other abiotic factors as a function of tree diversity and forest composition. This work entails collection of new empirical data and microclimate modeling. In addition, FMI participates to WP3 aiming to assess the economics of tree-based solutions.
Contact:
Juha Aalto | juha.aalto@fmi.fi
Saara Korjonen | saara.korjonen@fmi.fi
The Satakunta tree diversity experiments in WP2 were established and are maintained by UTU that will be participating in WP2 as Associate Partner.
Kai Ruohomäki | kairuo@utu.fi
Toni Laaksonen | toni.laaksonen@utu.fi
Role in Project
UGent is responsible for leading Work Package 1. This work package focuses on the collection of new biotic and abiotic data that will support the tasks in the subsequent work packages. In addition, WP1 includes the compilation and cleaning of existing datasets, as well as microclimate modelling.
Role in Project
Prospex Institute is leading WP5 and stakeholder engagement across the project. PI will work closely with the three case studies to guide local-level co-creation activities and support stakeholder engagement in testing locally applied TbS. To ensure Trees4Adapt’s results are relevant, widely adopted, and deliver inclusive benefits, PI will engage key societal actors at regional, national, and EU levels.
Contact:
Yulia Poskakukhina | yulia.poskakukhina@prospex-institute.org
Francesca Ferrara | francesca.ferrara@prospex-institute.org
Katharina Faradsch | katharina.faradsch@prospex-institute.org
Role in Project
The Chair of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology leads WP2 'Evaluation of locally applied TbS and co-creation of TbS best-practices: real-world case studies' and the German case study. Within this case study, which focuses on agroforestry in temperate agroecosystems, UWUE and its partner agrosforst-monitoring identifies and implements alternative management practices that help to achieve win-win situations for biodiversity conservation and climate change mitigation.
Contact:
Sarah Redlich | sarah.redlich@uni-wuerzburg.de
Role in Project
The Chair of Geobotany works on questions related to spatio-temporal vegetation dynamics, environment-plant relationships, reactions of terrestrial ecosystems to global changes (especially landuse- and climate-related factors), the functional significance of biodiversity, and the acoustic diversity and soundscapes of ecosystems. It is involved in WP1, facilitating the data exchange and field work with FunDivEUROPE and TreeDivNet sites.
Contact:
Michael Scherer-Lorenzen | michael.scherer@biologie.uni-freiburg.de
Role in Project
IIASA is leading and being responsible for WP4, in which we provide an upscaling of TbS at Pan-European scale. Using state-of-the-art quantitative models we will estimate how complex risks of climate and biodiversity change propagate across ecosystems now and in the future. Based on these results, IIASA will create a decision-support tool that enables the identification of areas with similar risks and TbS as investigated in the project.
Martin Jung | jung@iiasa.ac.at
Andrey Lessa Derci Augustynczik | augustynczik@iiasa.ac.at
Carla Catania | catania@iiasa.ac.at
Role in Project
IGOT will co-lead with ISA the Portuguese case study within WP2, which will assess the impact of forest type modification as a tree-based solution to current and future risks to Portuguese forests from climate change and biodiversity loss. At the Serra da Estrela mountain range, through workshops and in-field evaluation, we will work closely with local stakeholders:
Antonio T. Monteiro | monteiroantonio@edu.ulisboa.pt
César Capinha | cesarcapinha@campus.ul.pt
Paula Matos | paula.matos@edu.ulisboa.pt
Role in Project
ISA will (co)coordinate (along with IGOT) the Portuguese case study (WP2) dedicated to the promotions of tree-based solutions to minimize the impact of disturbances (e.g. fire) and biomass loss while improving landscape resilience and forest owners profitability.
ISA will also contribute with WP3 regarding the implementation of an economic analysis module to assess economic impact as well as environmental impact of the alternative tree based solutions under comparison.
Susana Barreiro | smb@isa.ulisboa.pt
Tiago Lima | tlima170@gmail.com
Royal Holloway is one of the UK’s leading research-intensive universities. Royal Holloway College was officially opened in 1886 by Queen Victoria as an all-women college, and became a member the University of London in 1900. It merged with Bedford College in 1985 to become Royal Holloway University of London (RHUL). Nowadays RHUL has over 12,000 students and ca 1800 staff members across 21 academic departments. RHUL participates in Trees4Adapt through the Department of Biological Sciences where research focuses on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, Sustainable Engineering and Food Security, and Healthy Ageing and Molecular Medicine.
Role in Project
RHUL will lead the Finnish case study within WP2 which will assess the effectiveness of forest diversification as a tree-based solution to current and future risks to Finnish forests from climate change and biodiversity loss. We will work closely with local stakeholders and use the Satakunta forest diversity experiments in SW Finland (part of TreeDivNet) as an experimental platform. RHUL will also support WP1 by facilitating fieldwork at the Satakunta forest diversity experiments and providing existing datasets.
Contact:
Julia Koricheva | julia.koricheva@rhul.ac.uk
Ellen Wright | Ellen.Wright.2026@live.rhul.ac.uk