Systemic solutions for upscaling of urgent ecosystem restoration for forest related biodiversity and ecosystem services (SUPERB)

SUPERB pursues the overall goal to create a lasting enabling environment for transformative change towardslarge-scale forest and forest landscape restoration, which empowers decision makers to take just and informeddecisions for restoration of biodiversity, ecosystem services and carbon sequestration in a manner that minimisesregion specific trade-offs and maximises synergies between ecosystem services. SUPERB develops and synthesisesa multidisciplinary, practical, and scientific restoration knowledge basis and makes it publicly available. In 12large-scale demonstrators across Europe, we will showcase best practices responding to key forest restoration andadaptation challenges on some hundreds of hectares per demo and with the potential for immediate upscaling to overone million hectares in 10-15 years. For large scale restoration to be successful, many actors from different sectorsand disciplines must behave synergistically and in a mutually reinforcing way. We will speed up transformativechange and further upscaling through innovative stakeholder involvement across scales to ensure the favorability anduptake of the proposed approaches. A comprehensive multi-language online Forest Ecosystem Restoration Gatewaywill guide stakeholders to find answers to their restoration questions, advise them on how to deal with barriers andenablers and provide access to easily applicable and comprehensible tools and materials that support restoration,e.g., best practices for forest restoration or the development of scalability plans, a tree species selection application,an innovative funding guide, and much more. The Gateway will also host a restoration Marketplace, where marketagents, e.g. potential funders and landowners, can agree on bids for restoration projects. SUPERB will boost andmeasure its impact through its extensive and systematically enlarged stakeholder communities and networks, to ensurethe relevance of the project outputs and their positive uptake.