Sea Seminar: BIONEXT

Prof. Anna-Stiina Heiskanen

In this Sea Seminar, Prof. Anna-Stiina Heiskanen will present insights from the project BIONEXT – The Biodiversity Nexus: Transformative Change for Sustainability. Heiskanen is Professor and Director of the Marine and Freshwater Solutions Unit at the Finnish Environment Institute (Syke) and coordinator of BIONEXT.

BIONEXT is a research and innovation project that joins the fight for nature and biodiversity. The project produces new evidence to better understand biodiversity loss and demonstrates how biodiversity underpins every aspect of life; the water we drink, the food we eat, and our health. To secure and protect these values, the project demands transformative change: BIONEXT’s goal is a sustainable society, where links between biodiversity, water, food, energy, transport, climate, and health are acknowledged and nature and biodiversity are a part of everyday choices and policymaking.

BIONEXT creates and offers science-based solutions and tools for reversing biodiversity loss and achieving regenerative, nature-centered futures and societies. The project is coordinated by the Finnish Environment Institute (Syke) and co-funded by the European Commission (Horizon Europe) and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).

More information on the talk will be updated here closer to the event.

The Sea Seminar series is a collaboration between the ÅAU profiling area The Sea and SOS. The seminars are organized once a month with a hybrid setup (click here for online participation), and they are open to everyone interested in marine and sustainability issues.