Selected current projects

BIOFIN
Protecting and restoring biodiversity using mainstream finance
Grant agreement ID: 101135476
Horizon Europe, 2024-2026

LIFE ClimatePositive
Promoting SMART associations and innovative financing for responsible forest management and carbon sink enhancement
Grant agreement ID: 101074589
Life Program, 2022-2027

NexusLabs
Nexus Living Labs for multi-level innovation in Mediterranean irrigated agriculture
Grant agreement ID: 101102316
Prima Program, 2025-2027

OptFORESTS
Harnessing forest genetic resources for increasing options in the face of environmental and societal challenges
Grant agreement ID: 101081774
Horizon Europe, 2023-2028

Valorlegno
Filiera del Legno Veneto: sistemi avanzati di valorizzazione delle produzioni
PR Veneto FESR, 2025-2027

WILDCARD
Effects of rewilding in forests and agricultural lands on carbon sequestration and biodiversity
Grant agreement ID: 101081177
Horizon Europe, 2024-2027

Selected completed projects

EMMA4EU
Innovation Alliance for training programmes for deforestation-free supply chains in Europe
Grant agreement ID: 101111729
Erasmus+, 2024-2026

LIFE Brenta 2030
Promoting good governance and innovative financing schemes for biodiversity and water conservation of Brenta river
Grant agreement ID: LIFE18 NAT/IT/000756
Life Program, 2019-2023

Rexus
Managing Resilient Nexus Systems through Participatory Systems Dynamics Modelling
Grant agreement ID: 101003632
Horizon, 2021-2024

Mauro Masiero | Full list of research projects and activities at UNIPD (.pdf)

Selected current projects

NatConnect2030
Assessing water use impacts on biodiversity within the Po river basin (Italy) and identifying management measures and mechanisms to internalize environmental and resource costs
ADBPO, 2025-2026

UNDP EVES Serbia
Assessing ecosystem services in selected protected areas and identifying mechanisms to support and value nature conservation and biodiversity while promoting local development
Grant agreement ID: 10498752
UNDP Serbia, 2026

Selected completed projects

AL INVEST Verde
Assessing the forestry and wood sector in Paraguay to improve its competitiveness within the framework of “deforestation-free” regulations (EUDR)
IILA, 2023

Public green spaces and ecosystem services
Assessing ecosystem services provided by public-owned urban green spaces and infrastructures in Torino municipal area (Italy) and testing selected nature-based solutions to cope with climate-change challenges
Comune di Torino, 2020-2021

Rock the Alps
Harmonized ROCKfall natural risk and protection forest mapping in the ALPine Space
Assessing the economic value of rock-fall protection forests in Lombardy (Italy) and case study analysis
Grant agreement ID: ASP462
Interreg | Alpine space program, 2016-2019

Sudan REDD+ SESA, Phase I and Phase II
Strategic Environmental & Social Assessment within the development of the REDD+ national program for Sudan
World Bank, Phase I 2017-2018, Phase II 2020-2021

Mauro Masiero | Full list of research projects and activities at Etifor (.pdf)