A Horizon Europe initiative · Est. 2023
Restoring Europe's wetlands,
one decision at a time.
Restore4Life develops nature-based solutions for wetland restoration across nine reference sites — and the tools that help others read the landscape before they begin.
A note from the consortium
Wetlands are among Europe's most productive ecosystems and its most threatened. Restoring them is rarely a question of ecology alone — it is political, economic, social, technological, legal, and environmental, all at once.
Restore4Life brings together scientists, practitioners and communities at nine wetland sites across the continent. We study what works, where, and under which conditions — and we publish tools that help others make better decisions before the first spade enters the ground.
The PESTLE profiler
Read the landscape
before you restore it.
A multi-criteria decision analysis tool that scores your NBS project against a reference network of nine European wetland restorations. Returns a PESTLE risk & opportunity profile, peer-site comparisons, an AI interpretation assistant, and a downloadable PDF report.
Try the profiler — ~10 minutesWhat the tool returns
Six lenses,
one decision.
Policy alignment, governance, permitting climate.
Funding pathways, cost trajectories, market value of services.
Community support, stakeholder dynamics, displacement risk.
Available methods, monitoring capacity, data infrastructure.
Land tenure, water rights, EU and national frameworks.
Hydrology, biodiversity baseline, climate exposure.
For practitioners and partners