Ida Meyenberg
MSc (International Land and Water Management)
BA (Public Policy and Governance)
Coordinator International Cooperation
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Ida Meyenberg is a Researcher and Coordinator for International Cooperation at Ecologic Institute in Berlin. Her work focuses on water management, landscape water balance, agriculture, as well as climate adaptation policy in the EU and Germany. Ida Meyenberg is a native German speaker and is fluent in English and French. She also has knowledge of Spanish, Dutch, and Arabic.
For Ecologic Institute, she works on the project Implementing Nature-based Solutions for Water Retention and Climate Resilience in Europe (SpongeWorks) on measures to enhance water retention in landscapes, contributing in particular to scenario development and the creation of a financing toolkit for nature-based solutions. Related to this work, she also authored a handbook on Water Stewardship in German agriculture for the Ecologic Institute. In addition, she organises co-design processes and is responsible for stakeholder engagement processes and the design of (inter)national workshops, including for the European Commission’s DG Climate project on Guidance on Climate-Resilient Landscapes and the German Environment Agency (UBA) project on Guidelines for Dealing with Water Scarcity.
Ida Meyenberg has been involved in the project Integrating Nature into Urban Ecology, Hydrology and Society (NICHES), a three-year BiodivERsA and Water JPI project that aims to demonstrate how nature-based solutions can be better utilised to transform cities sustainably. She was primarily responsible for the comparative governance analysis and took over the assistance project coordination. She was also involved in the project Sustainable Management of the Landscape Water Balance to Increase Climate Resilience (KliMaWerk), which creates coupled climate and land use scenarios in the Lippe catchment area. Moreover, Ida evaluated projects in the field of flood plain and river restoration in the Report to Support the Evaluation of Natural Climate Protection Action Programme (ANK) in 2025.
Before joining Ecologic Institute, Ida Meyenberg worked for the Gesellschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH in Eschborn (Germany). In the sector project for international forest policy, she worked in depth on forest and landscape restoration, carbon credits, and the forest-water nexus. Furthermore, she supported the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) with political advice in the field of participation of (indigenous) civil society in forest conservation.
During her MSc studies at Wageningen University (The Netherlands), Ida Meyenberg worked as a student assistant for the course Climate Smart Agriculture. During her master thesis research in the West Bank (Palestine), she gained experience in conducting international and transdisciplinary research projects with a focus on transboundary wastewater management and stakeholder integration (DUPC2). She completed her bachelor’s degree in political science at the University of Passau (Germany), with a year abroad at Science Po Grenoble (France).
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Selected projects by Ida Meyenberg
Nature's Integration in Cities' Hydrologies, Ecologies and Societies (NICHES)
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Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Germany VDI/VDE Innovation + Technik, Germany
Evaluation of Statistics on the Development of Environmental Crimes in Germany
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German Environment Agency (UBA), Germany
Guidance on Climate Resilient Landscapes
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European Commission, Directorate-General for Climate Action (DG Climate), International
Report to Support the Evaluation of Natural Climate Protection Action Programme (ANK) in 2025
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Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN), Germany
Guidelines for Dealing with Water Scarcity
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German Environment Agency (UBA), Germany
Water Stewardship in German Agriculture
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PANDA Fördergesellschaft für Umwelt, Germany
Sustainable Management of the Landscape Water Balance to Increase Climate Resilience (KliMaWerk)
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Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Germany
Selected publications by Ida Meyenberg
Sina, Stephan; Jenny Tröltzsch, Ida Meyenberg (2026): Umweltdelikte 2024. Auswertung von Statistiken. Dessau-Roßlau: Umweltbundesamt.
Sommerhäuser, M. et al. (2025). Sachbericht zum Verwendungsnachweis: Verbundprojekt KliMaWerk – Nachhaltige Bewirtschaftung des Landschaftswasserhaushaltes zur Erhöhung der Klimaresilienz: Management und Werkzeuge (Fördermaßnahme WaX – Wasser-Extremereignisse). Projektbericht.
Tröltzsch, J., Stelljes, N., Holzhausen, G., Ropers, G., Felthöfer, C., Meyenberg, I., von Pannwitz, K., Ittner, S., Krings, H. (2025). Gutachten zur Umsetzung und Wirkungen von Fördermaßnahmen im ANK (BfN-Schriften 753). Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN). https://doi.org/10.19217/skr753
Meyenberg, Ida & Elkina, Evgeniya 2025: What Makes Nature-Based Solutions Work? Governance Approaches for Managing Combined Sewer Overflows (Policy Brief, NICHES Project). Ecologic Institute.
Ida Meyenberg, Ulf Stein, Aaron Scheid, Rodrigo Vidaurre, Felix Dengler, Christian Schneider, Johanna Krähling, Richard Beisecker (2024): Handbook of Agricultural Measures for Enhancing Water Retention, Water Quality and Biodiversity in Germany. Ecologic Institute, Berlin. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15236788
Selected events by Ida Meyenberg
Workshop:Designing Climate Resilient Landscapes in Europe
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- Helsinki, Finland
Workshop:Designing Climate Resilient Landscapes in Europe
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- Bilbao, Spain
Digital Event:Bringing Forward Nature-Based-Solutions in Major Cities
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Workshop:Transformation of Berlin's Rainwater Management through NbS
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- Berlin, Germany
Conference:The Future Task of Near-natural Landscape Water Balance
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- Bonn, Germany