REWRITE project

❄️ Season’s greetings from all of us at REWRITE!
This year, we explored, measured and restored Europe’s coasts, and we couldn’t have done it without our amazing community.

Here’s to a joyful winter break & an inspiring 2026, packed with discoveries and rewilding milestones! 🌊💚

Doctorate Researcher (Ref. CDL-CTTRI-242-SGRH/2025) Public notice Ref.ª CDL-CTTRI-242-SGRH/2025 — Doctor Paulo Jorge dos Santos Gonçalves Ferreira, Full Professor and Rector of the University of Aveiro, hereby announces that for a period of 10 business...

📣 Starting the week with an exciting opportunity!

Universidade de Aveiro & CESAM, with Universidad de Cádiz, are hiring a #DoctorateResearcher with knowledge on estuarine & coastal physical #oceanography & hydrodynamic #modelling

📅Deadline 27 Nov 2025
🔗 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/388039

REWRITE NEWSLETTER #5 Welcome to a new issue of the REWRITE Newsletter! Autumn has been a season of connection and creativity for the REWRITE community. From our Annual Meeting in Aveiro to the first Global Multi-Actor Lab...

🌿 Our new REWRITE Newsletter is live!

If you want a quick tour of what’s happening on the ground, in the lab and across our community, dive in here
📮 www.linkedin.com/pulse/rewrit...

⏳ Last call!
Submit your art to Rewilding Through Art by 30 Nov 2025 and share your vision of renewal, resilience & reconnection with nature.

Selected works featured in our hybrid exhibition + Meander magazine.
🎨 Apply now → bit.ly/4qni4oj

Science, salt & smiles in Aveiro!

We kicked off the #REWRITE Annual Meeting with our brilliant Early Career Researchers — connecting teams from partner universities for a day of discussion, discovery & a photo challenge in the saltpans.🌿

Stay tuned for more updates from Portugal 👀

🌍 Investigadores del ICMAN-CSIC —Gabriel Navarro, Sara Haro y Alejandro Román— han participado en el Annual Meeting del proyecto @rewrite-eu.bsky.social, presentando resultados derivados del uso de drones en la Bahía de Cádiz junto a la @univcadiz.bsky.social .
#CienciaMarina #ICMAN #CSIC

Are you a creative based in Europe? 🎨

Join the REWRITE + WILDCARD art initiative exploring #rewilding & renewal through art, photography and film

No experience needed, just creativity & vision
Submit your work ➡️ bit.ly/4qni4oj

#OpenCall #ArtForNature #HorizonEurope

🎉 The REWRITE website is a finalist in the EURid's 2025 .eu Web Awards in the European Excellence category!

Now we need your support to turn this recognition into a win. Every vote matters & helps us amplify the voice of #rewilding across Europe!
🗳️ Vote until October 30: eurid.eu/en/about-eur...

🌿 Students + seagrass + hands-on fieldwork = inspiring learning in action!

Master’s students from the Ecosystems and Marine Bioproduction and Aquaculture, Environment, Society programmes joined our team in Bourgneuf Bay to map #seagrass meadows & their bivalve communities
🔗 bit.ly/4gZm61B

At #EuropeanResearchersNight, our Cádiz team turned rewilding into a game! 🎲🌊🌿

Visitors played “Salt Marshes and Flamingos”, deciding the fate of Cádiz Bay’s salt pans while learning about coastal restoration.

👉 More here: bit.ly/46tHGYE

Join us in giving a very warm welcome to our newest #REWRITER, Bocar Konte! 👋

Joining the team at Université d'Angers, Bocar's research focuses on the biogeochemical dynamics of intertidal #mudflats & the processes that control #CarbonStorage and release in these environments 🌿🌊
🔗 bit.ly/4moesiD

Interested in #biogeochemistry & #sediment processes?

Join the Angers Autumn School BIOGEO2D on 17–21 Nov 2025!
🔬Hands-on training with 2D DET gels & hyperspectral imaging
📚Fieldwork + workshops + expert talks
👩‍🔬Internationally recognised specialists

Apply 👉 www.univ-angers.fr/fr/acces-dir...

🌿 Last week, our team was on the ground (and in the mud!) in the Scheldt Estuary

Our REWRITE field campaigns are helping piece together a complex puzzle: how #CoastalWetlands store #carbon, support #biodiversity, and respond to environmental pressures

Read more 🔗 rewriteproject.eu/blog/post/79...

👋 We’re excited to welcome our newest #REWRITER, Willem Stock from Ghent University!

Willem’s research focuses on how sediment dynamics influence #CoastalEcosystems and #restoration success

Get to know him in our latest blog 👉 bit.ly/3J6dPvW

🌱 How can we align #biodiversity & economic priorities in a time of urgency?

Join the NetworkNature Annual Event 2025 "Choose Nature" to explore how #NatureBasedSolutions can build resilient economies that work for people & nature!
📅 16 September
📍 Brussels

🔗 bit.ly/4maKYF4

🌿 Our first campaign took place in Cádiz Bay 🇪🇸!
We measured CO₂ fluxes, biodiversity, blue carbon & more across 3 saltmarsh sites — from natural to abandoned to accidentally rewilded

These insights will help us understand how to restore coasts for #climate & #biodiversity
🔗 bit.ly/4nupLaz

Calibration check of the Hobos at summer solar max, 1900 uE, before an afternoon testing the @rewrite-eu.bsky.social seagrass carbon drawdown rigs.

🌊 The latest REWRITE Newsletter is here!

From muddy boots in Cádiz to high-tech sensors in Dublin Bay, our teams are tracking carbon, restoring biodiversity, and connecting across Europe.

Curious what rewilding really looks like? Check it out!
🔗 www.linkedin.com/pulse/rewrit...

🌊 #Coastal ecosystems are reaching a tipping point, but nature can still bounce back.

In this interview with Alter!, our coordinator Vona Méléder shares how coastal #rewilding can restore climate, biodiversity & community resilience

Check it out! 🔗 bit.ly/3SFUZgW

#Coasts are under pressure from growing populations and old infrastructure

Iris Moeller and Kevin O'Leary analyse the case of North Bull Island (Dublin Bay) to explore how human-made barriers affect #ecosystems and how we might restore them
🔗 bit.ly/43GZsoE

📣University of Aveiro & CESAM, in collaboration with University of Cádiz, is hiring a Doctorate Researcher to join the REWRITE team!

This is an exciting opportunity for a researcher with experience in estuarine & coastal physical #oceanography & #HydrodynamicModelling
🔗 www.ua.pt/en/sgrh/pess...

This Sunday is #WorldMigratoryBirdDay🐦
Every year, millions of birds cross borders, oceans & cities. The theme Shared Spaces: Creating Bird-Friendly Cities & Communities reminds us that birds don’t just need wild places. At REWRITE, we’re restoring #wetlands to give them place to land, refuel & rest

What’s holding back large-scale restoration in Europe? | Endangered Landscapes & Seascapes Programme

🌿What’s holding back large-scale restoration in Europe?

This piece explores the persistent barriers to ambitious nature recovery efforts & calls for systemic changes to unlock restoration at scale
🔗https://www.endangeredlandscapes.org/news/whats-holding-back-large-scale-restoration-in-europe/

If just 10% of people made a small eco-friendly change, it could lead to massive environmental benefits! 🌿🌊🌍

To celebrate #EarthDay, let’s take action together.
Join #MyNaturePledge & commit to a small action for the planet:
🌱Bring reusable bags & cups
🌊Join a local cleanup
🐦Protect biodiversity

From sunrise in 🇨🇦 to sunsets in 🇵🇹🇬🇷🇸🇪… last week’s REWRITE General Assembly brought our global team together (at least behind our screens)

Big thanks to our partners for your insights & energy as we reflect on everything we’ve achieved so far & prep for our summer review! 🌿

📣 New postdoc position at Nantes Université (France)!
Work on #BlueCarbon in tidal wetlands across Europe with the University of Aveiro (Portugal) and ICMAN-CSIC (Spain).

Apply by 25 April 2025 👉 www.euraxess.fr/jobs/329424?...

#Postdoc #CarbonSequestration #CoastalRestoration #MarineScience

🌍1 week until #EarthDay!
Nature gives us so much. What will you give back?

Today, we’re launching the #MyNaturePledge challenge!
Small actions can create big impacts. Make your pledge to #nature
💚Comment your pledge
💚Tag 3 friends
💚Use #MyNaturePledge to inspire others!

Ghent University is looking for a Post-Doc Assistant to join the REWRITE project & explore microbial biodiversity in #intertidal ecosystems! 🌿🔬

📍 Ghent, Belgium
📅 Apply by April 15, 2025

🔗 More info: jobs.ugent.be/job/Ghent-Po...

#Hiring #PostDoc #Ecology #Biodiversity

Defining marine rewilding can help guide theory and practice in marine conservation - Communications Earth & Environment The concept of rewilding, an approach to conservation aimed at the recovery of complex ecosystems, can be extended from the terrestrial to the marine realm and applied to degraded marine ecosystems.

New paper! “Defining marine rewilding can help guide theory and practice in marine conservation”. I’m beyond excited that the first paper of my PhD is now live and open access! @uniofhull.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social @rewrite-eu.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Live from Brussels, our policy event "When Nature Can Do the Job" is on! Together with wildE, WILDCARD, CINEA & SER Europe we're exploring how to upscale restoration under the #NatureRestorationLaw 🌱

If you're attending, share your feedback in the comments below!