Climate change is probably one of the greatest challenges we are facing today. Forests and natural ecosystems, if properly managed, can help reduce climate change. In this topic, you will learn: institutional, voluntary and domestic initiatives of carbon markets; the basics for quality certification and carbon accounting in natural ecosystems; examples of carbon projects. The [...]
Tourism is growing worldwide and ecotourism can provide significant finances to the responsible management of natural ecosystems. In this topic, you will learn: theory and the basics of sustainable tourism (e.g. from destination to experience); the development path for sustainable ecotourism activities; example of ecotourism management plans. The ECOSTAR e-learning course The course will run [...]
One of the first steps in dealing with the ECOSTAR initiative is to understand the level of entrepreneurship and innovation education within forestry and environmental university departments in the EU. In order to achieve this purpose, we would like to ask all the students to fill in the ECOSTAR needs analysis form, by June 24th, at [...]
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ECOSTAR is the research-enterprise impact hub and accelerator that promotes entrepreneurship and innovation for nature-based businesses. The initiative is promoted by a university-enterprise partnership between European and US-based institutions, and it is co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union, and other private investors. It’s an Impact Hub that promotes the start-up and acceleration [...]
The ECOSTAR Nature-Accelerator, powered by Fledge, selects and invests in early-stage impactful startups that are developing sustainable solutions to innovate the agriculture, forestry and natural resource sectors. Startups that focus on business models/solutions that integrate social innovation and new technologies, while improving, marketing, and financing ecosystem services and biodiversity are particularly welcome! The applications are [...]
ECOSTAR provides training and support for young professionals and students to improve entrepreneurship and innovation skills tailored to the marketing and economics of ecosystems and biodiversity. The following sections provide access to our resources and online training programme that will help deepen your knowledge on developing business initiatives that market and promote ecosystem services and [...]
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The University of Padova, the second oldest in Italy, hosted the kick-off meeting of the ECOSTAR initiative. 18 participants from the 9 partners involved in the project met on March, 3rd at Palazzo Bo, in the city centre. After a welcome address from the University of Padova, everyone introduced themselves and their organizations. An ECOSTAR project overview by Professor [...]