ES in practice award

ESP challenged the ESP10 participations to come up with and present innovative ideas to put the ecosystem services concept into practice. For this reason we organised a competition, the "ES in practice award". The aim was to find interesting applications of the ecosystem services approach that go beyond research. The idea could either be related to already existing innovations or brand new ideas.

A pre-selection of the best ideas was made. Those who were selected were kindly requested to pitch their idea during the 'ES in practice award' session on Thursday 24 October from 15:00-16:30.

Pre- selected ideas:

BGI4Water - Blal Adem Esmail
MeatiagoApp - Marco Allocco
Lily and the magic tree books - children's book on ES - Francesc Baró
Local Campaign to Raise Awareness (LC2RA) - Herlin Chien
Learning Ecosystem Services and Management (LESM) - Isah Dayyabu
Value creators - Wies Dijkstra
Savana life - ESBoardGames - Bente J Graae
Earth Observations to Guide a Landscape Approach to Sustainable Management of Ecosystem Services (EO4SustainableManagement) - Jo Hawker
A global autonomous heritage for environmental sustainability (GAH4EnvSustainability) - Jhon Dario Lopez Rojas
The European Network for the Advancement of Business & Landscape Education (ENABLE) - Simon Moolenaar
An integrated and operational framework to link ecosystem condition and ecosystem services (IOF4Ecosystem) - Fernando Santos-Martín
The Natural Capital Approach to Landscape Planning (NCA2LanscapePlanning) - Matt Smith
ESOnlineStrategyGames - Hao Wang

A jury selected a top three out of these pitches. These three contestants were offered the opportunity to pitch their idea again during the plenary closing session on Friday. The audience selected the winning idea. The ES in practice award winner, next to eternal ESP fame as the first ES in practice award winner, received a nice prize.