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Genetic monitoring of partridge (Perdix perdix) in Wallonia (EVINBO)

Mergeay, J. (Project leader), De Regge, N. (Cooperator), Deflem, I. (Cooperator), Mouton, C. (Cooperator), Neyrinck, S. (Cooperator) & Van Breusegem, A. (Cooperator)

1/08/24 → 31/07/26

Project: Evinbo

Preparatory research and development of model instruments for climate-robust management of the Zeeschelde (EVINBO)

Vanoverbeke, J. (Project leader), Geunens, O. (Cooperator), Gyselings, R. (Cooperator), Jocqué, M. (Cooperator), Mertens, A. (Cooperator), Van Braeckel, A. (Cooperator), Van Ryckegem, G. (Cooperator), Van de Meutter, F. (Cooperator), Vandevoorde, B. (Cooperator) & Vanermen, N. (Cooperator)

1/07/24 → 30/06/27

Project: coöperation agreement

Origin determination of mallard duck via stable isotopes

Mergeay, J. (Project leader), De Regge, N. (Cooperator), Deflem, I. (Cooperator) & Mouton, C. (Cooperator)

6/06/24 → 31/03/25

Project: coöperation agreement

FlatwormWatch: monitoring invasive flatworms using citizen science

Adriaens, T. (Project leader), Chanet, W. (Cooperator), De Vos, B. (Cooperator) & Soors, J. (Cooperator)

1/05/24 → 30/04/25

Project: Legally bound

BGE Pollinator Sampling 2024

Maebe, K. (Project leader), Maes, D. (Cooperator), Pollet, M. (Cooperator) & Van de Meutter, F. (Cooperator)

1/03/24 → 1/10/24

Project: Scientific support

Applying bio-geomorphodynamics to improve avian biodiversity and climate resilience in coastal wetlands – WADER

Van Ryckegem, G. (Project leader), Jocqué, M. (Cooperator), Mertens, A. (Cooperator), Van Braeckel, A. (Cooperator), Van de Meutter, F. (Cooperator) & Vanoverbeke, J. (Cooperator)

1/02/24 → 30/03/26

Project: Evinbo

Green Deal: Wild Pollinators in the Extraction Sector

Maebe, K. (Project leader), Maes, D. (Cooperator), Pollet, M. (Cooperator) & Van de Meutter, F. (Cooperator)

25/01/24 → 25/01/27

Project: own initiative (position paper)

ECODYN simulation of the Common Meuse 2024 (sect. Maasmechelen/Dilsen-Stokkem)

Van Braeckel, A. (Project leader), Jocqué, M. (Cooperator), Mertens, A. (Cooperator) & Smeekens, V. (Cooperator)

8/01/24 → 30/04/25

Project: Evinbo

Flanders Ecosystem Accounting (FLEA)

Van Reeth, W. (Project leader), Adriaens, T. (Cooperator), Alaerts, K. (Cooperator), Courtens, W. (Cooperator), D'hondt, B. (Cooperator), De Keersmaeker, L. (Cooperator), De Saeger, S. (Cooperator), De Vos, B. (Cooperator), Dochy, O. (Cooperator), Dumortier, M. (Cooperator), Heremans, S. (Cooperator), Jacobs, S. (Cooperator), Lettens, S. (Cooperator), Leyman, A. (Cooperator), Leyssen, A. (Cooperator), Maebe, K. (Cooperator), Michels, H. (Cooperator), Onkelinx, T. (Cooperator), Oosterlynck, P. (Cooperator), Packet, J. (Cooperator), Petersen, F. (Cooperator), Peymen, J. (Cooperator), Provoost, S. (Cooperator), Spanhove, T. (Cooperator), Stevens, M. (Cooperator), Thomaes, A. (Cooperator), Van Calster, H. (Cooperator), Van Gossum, P. (Cooperator), Van Landuyt, W. (Cooperator), Vandekerkhove, K. (Cooperator), Vanden Borre, J. (Cooperator), Vandevoorde, B. (Cooperator), Vanhellemont, M. (Cooperator), Vught, I. (Cooperator) & Wils, C. (Cooperator)

23/11/23 → 20/07/26

Project: own initiative (position paper)

Cabinet recommendation farmland nature

Eggermont, H. (Project leader), De Bruyn, L. (Cooperator), De Saeger, S. (Cooperator), Devos, K. (Cooperator), Dumortier, M. (Cooperator), Erens, R. (Cooperator), Jansen, J. (Cooperator), Maebe, K. (Cooperator), Mortelmans, D. (Cooperator), Oosterlynck, P. (Cooperator), Peymen, J. (Cooperator), Pollet, M. (Cooperator), Sannen, K. (Cooperator), Scheppers, T. (Cooperator), Spanhove, T. (Cooperator), Spanoghe, G. (Cooperator), Van Calster, H. (Cooperator), Van Donink, S. (Cooperator), Van Gossum, P. (Cooperator) & Wuyts, K. (Cooperator)

23/10/23 → 31/12/24

Project: Legally bound

Biomonitoring of Nieuwkapelleplas for construction of floating solar panel farm (EVINBO)

Packet, J. (Project leader), Van Wichelen, J. (Project leader), De Bruyn, L. (Cooperator), De Knijf, G. (Cooperator), Dekeukeleire, D. (Cooperator), Denys, L. (Cooperator), Dermout, W. (Cooperator), Devos, K. (Cooperator), Gyselings, R. (Cooperator), Louette, G. (Cooperator) & Scheers, K. (Cooperator)

15/05/23 → 15/03/25

Project: Evinbo

Support species protection programme (SBP) European turtle dove

Spanoghe, G. (Project leader), Devos, K. (Cooperator), Janssens, K. (Cooperator), Stienen, E. (Cooperator) & Verstraete, H. (Cooperator)

1/05/23 → 1/05/26

Project: coöperation agreement

Monitoring food availability for meadow birds

De Bruyn, L. (Project leader), Dekeukeleire, D. (Cooperator), Pollet, M. (Cooperator), Spanoghe, G. (Cooperator) & Verstraete, H. (Cooperator)

1/05/23 → 31/12/24

Project: coöperation agreement

Develop general guidance and practical roadmap for public lighting

Dekeukeleire, D. (Project leader), De Bruyn, L. (Cooperator) & Gyselings, R. (Cooperator)

1/04/23 → 31/12/24

Project: coöperation agreement

MBAG - MONIPOLLI (Monitoring pollnators and other insects)

Pollet, M. (Project leader), Maebe, K. (Cooperator) & Van de Meutter, F. (Cooperator)

1/04/23 → 31/12/24

Project: Evinbo

Ecological advice and monitoring coastal breeding birds Zeebrugge-Heist (EVINBO)

Stienen, E. (Project leader), Courtens, W. (Cooperator), Van De Walle, M. (Cooperator), Vanermen, N. (Cooperator) & Verstraete, H. (Cooperator)

1/03/23 → 1/03/25

Project: Evinbo

Climate and connectivity models to improve marl quarries as bat hibernacula

De Bruyn, L. (Project leader), Gyselings, R. (Cooperator) & Manzanares, L. (Cooperator)

1/01/23 → 30/11/24

Project: coöperation agreement

HABKWAP - Habitat preference corn crake and spotted crake

Spanoghe, G. (Project leader), Devos, K. (Cooperator), Janssens, K. (Cooperator), Stienen, E. (Cooperator) & Verstraete, H. (Cooperator)

1/01/23 → 31/12/25

Project: coöperation agreement

The effects of predation on ground-nestings farmland and meadow birds and how to mitigate possible negative effects

Rutten, A. (Project leader), Scheppers, T. (Project leader), D'hondt, B. (Cooperator), Devos, K. (Cooperator), Huysentruyt, F. (Cooperator), Spanoghe, G. (Cooperator), Stienen, E. (Cooperator) & Van Den Berge, K. (Cooperator)

15/12/22 → 31/12/24

Project: coöperation agreement

SPRING (Strengthening Pollinator Recovery through INdicators and monitorinG)

Pollet, M. (Project leader), Berlengee, F. (Cooperator), Brosens, D. (Cooperator), Gelaude, E. (Cooperator), Jocqué, M. (Cooperator), Maebe, K. (Cooperator), Milotic, T. (Cooperator), Neukermans, A. (Cooperator), Reyserhove, L. (Cooperator), Schamp, K. (Cooperator), Van de Meutter, F. (Cooperator) & Vanden Houten, J. (Cooperator)

29/04/22 → 31/12/24

Project: Evinbo

Deepening of the Europaterminal: monitoring for potential impacts (EVINBO)

Vandevoorde, B. (Project leader), Bezdenjesnji, O. (Cooperator), Buerms, D. (Cooperator), De Regge, N. (Cooperator), Hessel, K. (Cooperator), Janssens, K. (Cooperator), Jocqué, M. (Cooperator), Lefranc, C. (Cooperator), Mertens, W. (Cooperator), Smeekens, V. (Cooperator), Soors, J. (Cooperator), Thibau, K. (Cooperator), Van Braeckel, A. (Cooperator), Van Lierop, F. (Cooperator), Van Ryckegem, G. (Cooperator), Van de Meutter, F. (Cooperator), Van den Bergh, E. (Cooperator) & Vanoverbeke, J. (Cooperator)

14/04/22 → 31/12/25

Project: Evinbo

TOPGULL

Stienen, E. (Project leader), Courtens, W. (Cooperator), Van De Walle, M. (Cooperator), Vanermen, N. (Cooperator) & Verstraete, H. (Cooperator)

1/04/22 → 1/04/31

Project: coöperation agreement

Habitat use and site fidelity of curlew

Spanoghe, G. (Project leader), Janssens, K. (Cooperator), Stienen, E. (Cooperator), Van De Walle, M. (Cooperator) & Verstraete, H. (Cooperator)

1/04/22 → 31/12/24

Project: coöperation agreement

MONACO \Breeding bird monitoring in the search zones of the nature compensation areas at the Achterhaven Zeebrugge\

Verstraete, H. (Project leader), Courtens, W. (Cooperator), Stienen, E. (Cooperator), Van De Walle, M. (Cooperator) & Vanermen, N. (Cooperator)

1/01/22 → 1/01/27

Project: Evinbo

Surveillance and management of alien macrophytes and crayfish

Steen, F. (Project leader), Adriaens, T. (Cooperator), D'hondt, B. (Cooperator), Denys, L. (Cooperator), Leyssen, A. (Cooperator), Packet, J. (Cooperator), Scheers, K. (Cooperator) & Smeekens, V. (Cooperator)

1/01/22 → 31/12/27

Project: Outline agreement

C-mitigation in estuarine areas and managed floodplains (De Vlaamse Waterweg nv)

Lettens, S. (Project leader), Bezdenjesnji, O. (Cooperator), Buerms, D. (Cooperator), De Regge, N. (Cooperator), De Vos, B. (Cooperator), Hessel, K. (Cooperator), Janssens, K. (Cooperator), Lambrechts, S. (Cooperator), Lefranc, C. (Cooperator), Mertens, A. (Cooperator), Pieters, M. (Cooperator), Smeekens, V. (Cooperator), Soors, J. (Cooperator), Thibau, K. (Cooperator), Van Lierop, F. (Cooperator), Van Ryckegem, G. (Cooperator), Vandevoorde, B. (Cooperator), Vervaet, K. (Cooperator) & Willems, K. (Cooperator)

1/01/22 → 31/12/25

Project: Outline agreement

Monitoring the effects of sea farm Westdiep on the avifauna (EVINBO)

Stienen, E. (Project leader), Courtens, W. (Cooperator), Van De Walle, M. (Cooperator), Vanermen, N. (Cooperator) & Verstraete, H. (Cooperator)

26/11/21 → 31/12/31

Project: Evinbo

A stitch in time saves nine - Developing a novel management framework for aquatic invasive alien species based on eDNA methods

Everts, T. (Project leader), Brys, R. (Cooperator), De Regge, N. (Cooperator), Halfmaerten, D. (Cooperator), Neyrinck, S. (Cooperator) & Van Driessche, C. (Cooperator)

1/11/21 → 31/10/25

Project: PhD

Flemish Action Plan Wild Pollinators (VAWB)

Pollet, M. (Project leader), Adriaens, T. (Cooperator), D'hondt, B. (Cooperator), De Bruyn, L. (Cooperator), Dumortier, M. (Cooperator), Maes, D. (Cooperator), Van Gossum, P. (Cooperator) & Van de Meutter, F. (Cooperator)

1/10/21 → 31/12/24

Project: Legally bound

Nature Report National Park Hoge Kempen (NPHK) 2022

Pollet, M. (Project leader), Adriaens, T. (Cooperator), Casaer, J. (Cooperator), Cools, N. (Cooperator), De Knijf, G. (Cooperator), Hoffmann, M. (Cooperator), Maes, D. (Cooperator), Oosterlynck, P. (Cooperator), Van Den Berge, K. (Cooperator), Van Thuyne, G. (Cooperator), Van de Meutter, F. (Cooperator), Vandekerkhove, K. (Cooperator), Vermeersch, G. (Cooperator) & van Doorn, L. (Cooperator)

1/02/21 → 31/12/24

Project: coöperation agreement

Support Species Protection Plan Bats - BatConnect

De Bruyn, L. (Project leader), Gyselings, R. (Cooperator) & Manzanares, L. (Cooperator)

1/01/21 → 31/12/25

Project: coöperation agreement

Research for recovery and management of amphibian and reptile populations

Speybroeck, J. (Project leader), Auwerx, J. (Cooperator), Brys, R. (Cooperator), Cox, K. (Cooperator), Mergeay, J. (Cooperator), Neyrinck, S. (Cooperator), Picavet, B. (Cooperator), Smeekens, V. (Cooperator) & van Doorn, L. (Cooperator)

1/01/21 → 31/12/24

Project: own initiative (position paper)

PHD Ecological and evolutionary drivers of foraging specialisation in lesser black-backed gulls – from causes to consequences

Stienen, E. (Project leader), Courtens, W. (Cooperator), Van De Walle, M. (Cooperator), Vanermen, N. (Cooperator) & Verstraete, H. (Cooperator)

1/11/20 → 1/11/24

Project: PhD

Research Monitoring Ceratopogonidae Gentbrugge (EVINBO)

Van Ryckegem, G. (Project leader), Bezdenjesnji, O. (Cooperator), Buerms, D. (Cooperator), De Beukelaer, J. (Cooperator), De Regge, N. (Cooperator), Elsen, R. (Cooperator), Soors, J. (Cooperator), Van Braeckel, A. (Cooperator), Van Lierop, F. (Cooperator), Van de Meutter, F. (Cooperator), Van den Bergh, E. (Cooperator), Vandevoorde, B. (Cooperator) & Vanoverbeke, J. (Cooperator)

8/05/20 → 31/12/24

Project: Evinbo

Use of (e)DNA and barcoding techniques for screening of (potentially) invasive alien species.

Brys, R. (Project leader), Adriaens, T. (Cooperator), D'hondt, B. (Cooperator), Devisscher, S. (Cooperator), Halfmaerten, D. (Cooperator), Mergeay, J. (Cooperator), Soors, J. (Cooperator), Speybroeck, J. (Cooperator), Van de Meutter, F. (Cooperator), Verreycken, H. (Cooperator) & van Doorn, L. (Cooperator)

1/04/20 → 31/12/24

Project: Legally bound

Advice on PAS (programmatic approach to nitrogen)

Louette, G. (Project leader), Adriaens, D. (Cooperator), Cools, N. (Cooperator), De Becker, P. (Cooperator), De Dobbelaer, T. (Cooperator), De Keersmaeker, L. (Cooperator), De Wever, A. (Cooperator), Decleer, K. (Cooperator), Denys, L. (Cooperator), Herr, C. (Cooperator), Hoffmann, M. (Cooperator), Janssens, L. (Cooperator), Neirynck, J. (Cooperator), Onkelinx, T. (Cooperator), Oosterlynck, P. (Cooperator), Packet, J. (Cooperator), Provoost, S. (Cooperator), Raman, M. (Cooperator), Smeekens, V. (Cooperator), Van Calster, H. (Cooperator), Van Daele, T. (Cooperator), Vanden Borre, J. (Cooperator), Vanderhaeghe, F. (Cooperator), Verstraeten, A. (Cooperator), Vriens, L. (Cooperator), Wouters, J. (Cooperator) & Wuyts, K. (Cooperator)

1/01/20 → 31/12/24

Project: Legally bound

HabNorm 2.0 - Environmental standards for (European protected) vegetation types

Raman, M. (Project leader), Cools, N. (Cooperator), De Keersmaeker, L. (Cooperator), De Vos, B. (Cooperator), Herr, C. (Cooperator), Provoost, S. (Cooperator), Van Braeckel, A. (Cooperator), Van Calster, H. (Cooperator), Vandevoorde, B. (Cooperator) & Wouters, J. (Cooperator)

1/01/20 → 1/01/28

Project: Legally bound

Bird Atlas 2020-2024

Vermeersch, G. (Project leader), Courtens, W. (Cooperator), Devos, K. (Cooperator), Dochy, O. (Cooperator), Everaert, J. (Cooperator), Spanoghe, G. (Cooperator), Stienen, E. (Cooperator), T'Jollyn, F. (Cooperator), Van De Walle, M. (Cooperator), Vanermen, N. (Cooperator) & Verstraete, H. (Cooperator)

1/01/20 → 31/12/25

Project: Legally bound

Open Science - Towards a high-quality and transparent research cycle

De Wever, A. (Project leader), Vanderhaeghe, F. (Project leader), Adriaens, T. (Cooperator), Breine, J. (Cooperator), Brosens, D. (Cooperator), Carmen, R. (Cooperator), Casaer, J. (Cooperator), Cox, K. (Cooperator), De Dobbelaer, T. (Cooperator), Desmet, P. (Cooperator), Genouw, G. (Cooperator), Goossens, B. (Cooperator), Janssens, L. (Cooperator), Leyssen, A. (Cooperator), Milotic, T. (Cooperator), Oldoni, D. (Cooperator), Onkelinx, T. (Cooperator), Pauwels, I. (Cooperator), Piesschaert, F. (Cooperator), Pollet, M. (Cooperator), Thomaes, A. (Cooperator), Thoonen, M. (Cooperator), Turkelboom, F. (Cooperator), Van Calster, H. (Cooperator), Van Daele, T. (Cooperator), Van Gossum, P. (Cooperator), Vanden Borre, J. (Cooperator), Vanermen, N. (Cooperator), Wanner, S. (Cooperator) & Wils, C. (Cooperator)

1/01/20 → 31/12/35

Project: own initiative (position paper)

Landscape and habitat use, and climate adaptation in bats

De Bruyn, L. (Project leader), Gyselings, R. (Cooperator) & Thibau, K. (Cooperator)

1/01/20 → 31/12/24

Project: own initiative (position paper)

KlimaAdapt - Climate-resilient ecosystems using adaptive and mitgating measures

Raman, M. (Project leader), Decleer, K. (Cooperator), Turkelboom, F. (Cooperator), Van Calster, H. (Cooperator), Van Kerckvoorde, A. (Cooperator), Van Ryckegem, G. (Cooperator), Van der Aa, B. (Cooperator) & Vanderhaeghe, F. (Cooperator)

1/01/20 → 1/01/25

Project: own initiative (position paper)

Ecology, management and impact of Chinese mitten crab in Flanders

Adriaens, T. (Project leader), D'hondt, B. (Project leader), Baert, K. (Cooperator), Baeyens, R. (Cooperator), Buysse, D. (Cooperator), Denys, L. (Cooperator), Gelaude, E. (Cooperator), Lambeens, I. (Cooperator), Maesele, R. (Cooperator), Neukermans, A. (Cooperator), Speybroeck, J. (Cooperator), Terrie, T. (Cooperator), Van Ryckegem, G. (Cooperator), Van Wichelen, J. (Cooperator), Van den Bergh, E. (Cooperator) & Verreycken, H. (Cooperator)

1/01/20 → 31/12/27

Project: Outline agreement

Explanatory research of (eco)hydrological processes

Wouters, J. (Project leader), Adriaens, D. (Cooperator), De Becker, P. (Cooperator), De Dobbelaer, T. (Cooperator), Herr, C. (Cooperator), Van Braeckel, A. (Cooperator), Van Daele, T. (Cooperator), Van der Auwermeulen, B. (Cooperator), Vanderhaeghe, F. (Cooperator) & Wackenier, M. (Cooperator)

1/01/20 → 31/12/24

Project: own initiative (position paper)

Evaluation and integration of the monitoring results in the Scheldt-estuary

Van Ryckegem, G. (Project leader), Breine, J. (Cooperator), De Wever, A. (Cooperator), Mertens, W. (Cooperator), Mertens, A. (Cooperator), Piesschaert, F. (Cooperator), Speybroeck, J. (Cooperator), Van Braeckel, A. (Cooperator), Van Spaendonk, G. (Cooperator), Van de Meutter, F. (Cooperator), Van den Bergh, E. (Cooperator), Vandenbroucke, P. (Cooperator), Vandevoorde, B. (Cooperator), Vanoverbeke, J. (Cooperator) & Wils, C. (Cooperator)

1/01/19 → 31/12/24

Project: Outline agreement

Nature development valley of the Gemeenschappelijke Maas

Van Uytvanck, J. (Project leader), Smeekens, V. (Cooperator), Thoonen, M. (Cooperator) & Van Braeckel, A. (Cooperator)

1/01/19 → 31/12/24

Project: Outline agreement

Hyperbenthos MONEOS (De Vlaamse Waterweg)

Speybroeck, J. (Project leader), Van de Meutter, F. (Project leader), Bezdenjesnji, O. (Cooperator), Buerms, D. (Cooperator), Coudenys, A. (Cooperator), De Beukelaer, J. (Cooperator), De Regge, N. (Cooperator), Lefranc, C. (Cooperator), Smeekens, V. (Cooperator), Soors, J. (Cooperator), Van Braeckel, A. (Cooperator), Van Ryckegem, G. (Cooperator), Van den Bergh, E. (Cooperator) & Vanoverbeke, J. (Cooperator)

1/01/19 → 31/12/24

Project: Outline agreement

Management of tidal marshes

Van den Bergh, E. (Project leader), Elsen, R. (Cooperator), Mertens, W. (Cooperator), Raimondi, M. (Cooperator), Van Braeckel, A. (Cooperator), Van Ryckegem, G. (Cooperator), Van de Meutter, F. (Cooperator) & Vandevoorde, B. (Cooperator)

1/01/19 → 31/12/24

Project: Outline agreement