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Restore4Life Wetland Restoration Platform for the Danube Basin to be Presented at EMS 2025

4 September 2025

The 2025 Annual Meeting of the European Meteorological Society (EMS) will take place as a hybrid event in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and online from 7–12 September 2025. Among the highlights is a presentation of Restore4Life Web Platform: A Decision-Support and Engagement System for Wetland Restoration Across the Danube Basin.

The platform is designed under the Restore4Life Horizon Europe project and is being developed to support wetland restoration across the Danube Basin by integrating Earth observation, in situ monitoring, stakeholder knowledge, and decision-support tools. It provides a dynamic interface for data visualization, stakeholder engagement, and evidence-based policy and restoration planning.

Building on lessons from eLTER and LifeWatch infrastructures, the platform functions as a centralized hub for identifying, prioritizing, and monitoring potential and ongoing wetland restoration actions. By incorporating historical land use and wetland distribution data, real-time hydrological and climatic inputs, and high-resolution satellite imagery (such as from the Copernicus Sentinel missions), it enables integrated spatial-temporal analysis at multiple scales.

The Restore4Life platform features:

  • Stakeholder & Policy Dashboard – Visualizing restoration progress, land use change, and ecosystem service indicators relevant for policy targets (e.g. EU Biodiversity Strategy, Nature Restoration Law).
  • Decision Support System (DSS) – Supporting the selection and prioritization of wetland reconstruction areas based on ecological, hydrological, and socio-economic criteria.
  • Citizen Science & Community Tools – Enabling participatory mapping, monitoring, and knowledge exchange, with a special focus on local communities and landowners.
  • Business & Finance Tools – Connecting restoration initiatives with ecosystem-based financing, carbon credits, and nature-based enterprise models.
  • Learning & Communication Hub – Providing access to case studies, good practices, training modules, and outreach materials.
  • Interoperable Data Integration – Ensuring compatibility with Copernicus, national monitoring systems, and European environmental infrastructures (e.g. LifeWatch, eLTER, ICOS).

Designed around FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) data principles, the Restore4Life Web Platform fosters cross-sectoral collaboration, transparent data sharing, and adaptive ecosystem management. It acts as a strategic enabler of large-scale, science-based wetland restoration in line with EU ecological and climate resilience goals.

👉 Read the abstract: Restore4Life Web Platform: A Decision-Support and Engagement System for Wetland Restoration Across the Danube Basin

How to cite: Adamescu, M., Cazacu, C., Cheval, S., Craciunescu, V., Dumitrescu, A., Micu, D., and Racoviceanu, T.: Restore4Life Web Platform: A Decision-Support and Engagement System for Wetland Restoration Across the Danube Basin, EMS Annual Meeting 2025, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 7–12 Sep 2025, EMS2025-542, https://doi.org/10.5194/ems2025-542, 2025.


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