The transition towards a sustainable and circular bioeconomy is central to achieving Europe’s climate, biodiversity and resilience goals. However, stakeholder engagement and coordination across the European bioeconomy landscape remain uneven, particularly across regions and sectors. STRONGBIONET addresses these challenges by strengthening and connecting bioeconomy networks across Europe and beyond. The project will establish an EU-wide, multilingual digital platform designed as a “network of networks” to support stakeholder engagement, knowledge exchange, investor readiness, education and science-policy dialogue.

The AF4VALUE project addresses these barriers by developing and testing approaches that can strengthen agroforestry value chains and improve the economic viability of agroforestry for farmers and rural communities. The project focuses on practical innovation, business models, financial incentives, certification-related technologies and policy conditions that can support the agroecological transition.

BioClime strengthens synergies between biodiversity and climate policy under the CBD and UNFCCC. The project supports international negotiations and implementation processes in partner countries through policy advice, analysis, dialogue, and knowledge exchange.

This project aims to ensure that the overdue national penalty regimes under the EU Methane Regulation (EUMR), and their enforcement, are sufficiently effective and dissuasive to make full compliance the default rational choice for all companies subject to the EUMR. This is necessary to avoid a race to the lowest level of ambition that would undermine the EUMR's ability to reduce methane emissions in the EU Member States as well as in the countries from which the EU imports fossil fuels.

Ecologic Institute is hosting a group of students from the University of Colorado Denver for a multi-week course on environmental policy and governance in Germany and the European Union. Over the course of several weeks, students engage with key topics including the structure of EU institutions, Germany’s federal political system, and the historical development of environmental policy. The programme combines academic input with practical insights into how environmental policy is shaped and implemented in real-world contexts.

The TrueFoodS project, funded under the European FutureFoodS Partnership, aims to make Europe’s post-harvest systems more sustainable, equitable, and resilient. The project adopts an integrated Food Systems Approach that considers environmental, economic, social, and regulatory dimensions.

RISE UP for the Ocean is a global network linking grassroots movements with decision-making spaces, with a mission to unite and amplify civil society and community voices to influence global ocean policy and decision-making. In its work, RISE UP builds on the Blue Call to Action launched in 2019, which sets out agreed priorities, objectives and targets – not based on what is politically convenient, but on what the ocean truly needs to recover.

This project, funded by the European Climate Foundation (ECF), supports the research and policy community working on the EU's post-2030 governance architecture by providing targeted analysis, engagement, and practical tools to strengthen EU and national climate governance.

A consortium led is developing the European Fair Transition Observatory (EFTO) for the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion. The aim is to establish a European knowledge and monitoring platform that brings together data, policies, analyses, and practical examples on the just transition

Horizon Europe project, SEA4FUTURE, is dedicated to catalysing a blue transformation of the Mediterranean seafood sector. The project addresses key challenges facing the Mediterranean regions, including environmental degradation, overexploited fish stocks and socio-economic vulnerability of coastal communities. Coordinated by the University of Alicante (Spain), the project brings together 22 partners from eight countries: Spain, Italy, Greece, Portugal, France, Germany, Türkiye and the United Kingdom. Ecologic Institute leads social science research focusing on the integration of fishers’ knowledge and expertise in new sustainable fisheries monitoring processes and implementing a stakeholder engagement strategy to foster social acceptance and support for the sustainable seafood products and practices promoted by the project. Ecologic also coordinates the development of actionable policy recommendations and building capacity for decision-makers, supporting the adoption of Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management (EBFM) within the EU and beyond.

This project supports the next phase of ETS training and capacity building with the International Carbon Action Partnership (ICAP). It is commissioned by the European Commission’s DG CLIMA and builds on long-standing cooperation with ICAP to support jurisdictions in developing and emerging economies that are exploring, designing, or strengthening emissions trading systems.

This project supports the European Commission in carrying out a comprehensive impact assessment for a revision of the Governance Regulation, the EU's umbrella framework for climate and energy policy.

Ecologic Institute is developing a practical guide on alternative financing options for municipal climate projects. The guide provides a structured overview of suitable financing approaches – ranging from fees and participatory models to funds and cooperative arrangements – and assesses their applicability under the specific conditions in Rhineland-Palatinate.

The project “Development of an Evaluation Framework for Restoration Measures under the Nature Restoration Regulation” aims to develop a nationwide, modular approach for assessing the effectiveness of restoration measures. This evaluation framework is intended to ensure that targets are achieved, progress is tracked transparently, and measures can be adapted where necessary.

In this project, Ecologic Institute conducted an internal qualitative reputation analysis of the Advisory Board at the end of its first term to investigate how relevant stakeholder groups perceive the Board in terms of its relevance, credibility, consensus, balance, and the timeliness of its outputs and outreach.