Inspire4Nature (www.inspire4nature.eu) is a PhD training network at the interface between the science and the policy of international biodiversity conservation, funded by the EU Horizon2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions. We are now recruiting 15 Ph positions – each one of them in collaboration with one (or more) leading international conservation organisations! Deadline: 16 April.
Project 1 – Advancing quantitative analyses for IUCN Red List assessments of species’ risk of extinction: Based at Sapienza University (Rome, Italy), in collaboration with BirdLife International. http://www.insp
Project 2 – How will halting biodiversity loss affect the achievement of other Sustainable Development Goals? Based at Sapienza University (Rome, Italy), in collaboration with UNEP-WCMC and University College London.http://www.inspire4natu
Project 3 – Global scenarios of terrestrial vertebrate diversity. Based at University College London (London, UK), in collaboration with the Zoological Society of London.http://www.inspire4natu
Project 4 – Projected effect of global change on species’ change in extinction risk. Based at Sapienza University (Rome, Italy), in collaboration with BirdLife International.http://www.inspi
Project 5 – Measuring the impact conservation makes on trends in species’ populations. Based at University College London (London, UK), in collaboration with the Zoological Society of London.http://www.inspire4natu
Project 6 – The effectiveness of protected areas at avoiding species extinctions. Based at the CEFE-CNRS (Montpellier, France), in collaboration with BirdLife International and UNEP-WCMC.http://www.inspire4n
Project 7 – Permeability of European Protected Areas in the face of Invasive Alien Species. Based at the CEFE-CNRS (Montpellier, France), in collaboration with IUCN and UNEP-WCMC. http://www.inspire4
Project 8 – Understanding impacts of scale on the Red List Index: a case study on European vertebrates. Based at the Leibniz-Institut für Gewässerökologie und Binnenfischerei (Berlin, Germany) in collaboration with IUCN. http://www.inspire4natur
Project 9 – Advancing sampled approaches to established metrics for assessing trends in biodiversity. Based at University College London (London, UK), in collaboration with the Zoological Society of London.http://www.inspire4natu
Project 10 – Tracking changes in protection of Greek Key Biodiversity Areas. Based at the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (Anavyssos, Greece), in collaboration with the IUCN and the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. http://www.inspire4nat
Project 11 – Understanding the implications of temporal dynamics of Protected Area boundaries and designations for Protected Area-based biodiversity indicators. Based at the University of Copenhagen (Copenhagen, Denmark), in collaboration with UNEP-WCMC.http://www.inspire4n
Project 12 – Contribution of conservation areas outside formal protected areas to biodiversity conservation and sustainable development. Based at the University of Copenhagen (Copenhagen, Denmark), in collaboration with UNEP-WCMC and BirdLife International.http://www.inspi
Project 13 – Where will further Key Biodiversity Areas be identified? A modelling approach to focus efforts. Based at Sapienza University (Rome, Italy), in collaboration with BirdLife International. http://www.insp
Project 14 – Understanding declines of Afro-Palearctic migratory birds. Based at the CEFE-CNRS (Montpellier, France), in collaboration with BirdLife International, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, RSPB and BTO.http://www.inspire4nature.
Project 15 – Identifying Marine Key Biodiversity Areas using tracking data. Based at ISPA-Instituto Universitário (Lisbon, Portugal), in collaboration with BirdLife International and RSPB. http://www.inspire4natur