ACTNOW – Advancing understanding of Cumulative Impacts on European marine biodiversity, ecosystem functions and services for human wellbeing

ACTNOW advances the state-of-the-art in understanding and forecasting of the cumulative impacts of climate change and interacting drivers on marine systems. 

Duration
48 months from 01/03/2023 to 28/02/2027
Funded by
  • European Commission

CMCC Scientific Leader
CMCC Project manager
CMCC Institutes

CMCC Divisions

General aims

General objectives
The program provides solution options to halt the loss of biodiversity, to restore and protect habitats and ecosystem processes, and to safeguard the contributions of marine areas to human well-being. 

CMCC role
CMCC participates in WP1, WP2, WP3, WP5, WP6, WP7 and provides habitat information to project partners across the case studies and studies the importance of Posidonia habitats for biodiversity via a combined observation – modelling approach and develops a system for identifying biodiversity potential precursors.
ACTNOW is co-developed with EU policy stakeholders to deliver: 1) Mechanistic (cause-and-effect) understanding of the impacts of multiple interacting drivers on organisms, communities, habitats and ecosystems from individual-level performance to ecosystem-level stability, resistance, resilience and tipping- points; 2) Improved monitoring and new indicators of marine biodiversity based on state-of-the-art biologging technology, molecular methods and advanced numerical modeling; 3) Enhanced forecasts of European marine biodiversity, ecosystem functioning and services using scenarios (co-created and regionalized with practitioners) of multiple drivers and management settings, as well as integrated impact assessment methods; 4) Fit-for-purpose decision-support tools enabling regulators to deliver regionally-appropriate assessments and actions to restore and maintain Good Environmental Status; 5) Next-generation training for early-career scientists working on solutions to the dual crises of biodiversity loss and climate change and capacity building to enhance public literacy on the One Health concept. 

Expected results
ACTNOW builds predictive capacity of multiple driver effects and performs integrated indicators assessments of biodiversity across 20 Case Studies capturing all European climate zones and regional seas, including pan-European research on key groups in marine food webs. dies capturing all European climate zones and regional seas, including pan-European research on key groups in marine food webs. 

Coordinating organization
1) STICHTING NEDERLANDSE WETENSCHAPPELIJK NL ONDERZOEK INSTITUTEN (NIOZ)

Partner
2) CENTRO INTERDISCIPLINAR DE INVESTIGACAO PT MARINHA E AMBIENTAL (CIIMAR)
3) FONDAZIONE CENTRO EURO-MEDITERRANEOSUI IT CAMBIAMENTI CLIMATICI (FONDAZIONE CMCC)
4) DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET (DTU-AQUA)
5) HELLENIC CENTRE FOR MARINE RESEARCH (HCMR)
6) ECOPATH INTERNATIONAL INITIATIVE ASOCIACION (EII)
7) NORSK INSTITUTT FOR VANNFORSKNING (NIVA)
8) CARL VON OSSIETZKY UNIVERSITAET OLDENBURG (UOL) 
9) UNIVERSITE DE MONTPELLIER (UM)
9.1) INSTITUT FRANCAIS DE RECHERCHE POUR L’EXPLOITATION DE LA MER (IFREMER) 
10) INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DEVELOPPEMENT (IRD)
11) UNIVERSITAET ROSTOCK (UROS)
12) CONSORZIO NAZIONALE INTERUNIVERSITARIO PER LE SCIENZE DEL MARE ASSOCIAZIONE (CONISMA)
13) UNIVERSIDAD DE VIGO (UVIGO)
14) UNIVERSITA DI PISA (UNIPI)
15) MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY (METU)
16) ALFRED-WEGENER-INSTITUT HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM FUR POLAR- UND MEERESFORSCHUNG (AWI)
17) UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI NAPOLI FEDERICO II (UNINA)
18) ISRAEL OCEANOGRAPHIC AND LIMNOLOGICAL RESEARCH LIMITED (IOLR)
19) UNIVERSITETET I TROMSOE – NORGES ARKTISKE UNIVERSITET (UiT)
20) HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO (UH)
21) KONINKLIJKE NEDERLANDSE AKADEMIE VAN WETENSCHAPPEN – KNAW (KNAW)
22) STOCKHOLMS UNIVERSITET (SU)
23) INSTITUT PO BIORAZNOOBRAZIE I EKOSISTEMNI IZSLEDVANIYA BALGARSKA AKADEMIYA NA NAUKITE (IBER-BAS)
24) INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR THE EXPLORATION OF THE SEA (ICES)
25) TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY (TAU)
26) HAVFORSKNINGSINSTITUTTET (IMR)
27) ETHNIKO KAI KAPODISTRIAKO PANEPISTIMIO ATHINON (NKUA)
28) STICHTING WAGENINGEN RESEARCH WR)
29) EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZUERICH (ETH)
30) THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS (CEFAS)
31) PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY LIMITED (PML)
32) MARINE BIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM (MBA)
33) SWANSEA UNIVERSITY  (SWANSEA)
34) THE UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS (USTAN)

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