About Us

This is the home of the European Peatland Policy Portal, a collaborative effort of the EU LIFE MultiPeat project.

The ASPECT Unit of the University of Galway's Data Science Institute has developed this portal as a public toolkit to showcase and analyse peatlands, projects, and policies in order to aid the conservation of peatlands and the management of agriculture on peat soils.

This development process consisted of the construction of various datasets (policies, spatial information, factual statistics), the development of web tools (the policy and project collection pages, map interfaces, calculators adapted from spreadsheets), and the creation of novel Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence tools (Policy RAG Tool and Key Metric Analyser). The final product we have created is not final-- we hope that the portal will continue to expand in future projects and that its framework will be applied to other policy landscapes, not just peatlands.

If you are interested in learning more about the development of the portal, its underlying framework, and its various datasets and tools, please see our Article in Open Research Europe (currently under peer review).

Let's save the peatlands together!