Rewarding Lake Restoration: Building Capacity with Landscape Finance Lab in EUROLakes Results-Based Payments Training

On April 1, the EUROLakes consortium took a significant step in understanding nature financing as a mechanism for a resilient future of Europe’s freshwater ecosystems. In collaboration with our partner […]
Why People are at the Heart of Lake Protection and Restoration

Restoring a lake rarely begins with technology.It begins with people. Across Lake Vico, Lake Dümmer and Lake Bistreț, one thing has emerged clearly throughout the EUROLakes #DemoLakes campaign: meaningful and […]
EUROLakes at the European Ocean Days 2026

From 2 to 6 March 2026, the European Ocean Days were hosted in Brussels, bringing together policymakers, researchers and financial institutions to discuss the future of Europe’s oceans and waters. […]
EUROLakes Showcases Participatory Planning at the NatSoliS Conference in Naples

The delicate balance that binds water to land and communities to the landscapes they inhabit, took center stage last month in Naples. On February 26–27, 2026, members of the EUROLakes […]
Lake Bistreț: a key floodplain lake in southern Romania

Photographer: Kees van der Aart Lake Bistreț is a large, shallow floodplain lake a few kilometres north of the Danube, near the villages of Bistreț and Cârna. It anchors the Bistreț–Cârna–Nasta wetland system and is the […]
Mission Lakes Webinar: Turning Pollution into Resources

What if the nutrients fueling harmful algal blooms could instead fertilize crops, power new industries or inspire innovative approaches to known issues? That was the guiding question during the third […]
Lake Dümmer: Nature, recreation and resilience in balance?

A Biodiversity Hub With around 1,300 hectares of water, Lake Dümmer is the second largest lake in Lower Saxony. Together with the directly surrounding wet grasslands, the Dümmer area covers […]
Collaborative Workshop Starts Shaping Visitor Route in Bistreț–Cârna Lakes Area

WWF-Romania, together with the Jiu Corridor (Dolj County Center for Nature Protection, Tourism and Sustainable Rural Development), recently hosted a workshop within the framework of the EUROLakes project, in the […]
Scaling up lake restoration: EUROLakes Replication Call is launched

As EUROLakes enters its first full year of implementation, Work Package 5 (WP5) team has taken a major step forward: the Replication Call for Associated Regions has officially been launched […]
SHAPING IDEAS: Shared Alternatives for the Sustainable Development of Lake Vico

On 21 November 2025, the “Shaping Ideas: Shared Alternatives for the sustainable development of Lake Vico” EUROLakes project held a stakeholder engagement workshop in Caprarola at the Palazzo della Cultura, […]
