To adhere to the Nature Restoration Regulation, EU countries must submit their Nature Restoration Plans by September 2026, and their success will depend not just on ambitious planning but on effective future implementation to meet global biodiversity goals and the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030. Protected Areas, especially those managing and overlapping with Natura 2000 sites, will play a central role, as their managers hold the expertise needed to turn policy into concrete restoration action.

The Siggen Seminar 2026 - Nature Restoration Plans: the path towards implementation will bring together leading restoration experts to explore the critical steps required to move from planning to effective implementation. As an output, the aim is to develop the curriculum for a new training course that can support practitioners to think through how to turn restoration plans into action in Protected Areas across Europe.

Through these online sessions, we want to provide an opportunity to other participants to learn how National Nature Restoration Plans are being drafted in some countries, how Protected Areas, especially those overlapping with Natura 2000 sites, will be involved and join the discussion to identify key opportunities and challenges that should be taken into account for an effective future implementation of these plans.

This first online session will focus on exchanging experience on how the Nature Restoration plans are being drafted by member states in the framework of the EU Nature Restoration Regulation, useful tools for planning, challenges and lessons learned during this phase.

This second online session will focus on how Protected Areas will contribute to the implementing the EU Nature Restoration Regulation, examples of nature restoration actions and how can we use these experiences to anticipate and streamline the implementation of the Nature Restoration Plans submited by Member States.