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2022-2023 Joint Call
Improved transnational monitoring of biodiversity and ecosystem change for science and society
In September 2022, Biodiversa+ launched its BiodivMon call, seeking proposals for 3-years research projects aimed at improving transnational monitoring of biodiversity and ecosystem change.
This call, co-funded by the European Commission, focused on three (non-exclusive) key themes:
- Innovation and harmonisation of methods and tools for the collection and management of biodiversity monitoring data.
- Addressing knowledge gaps related to biodiversity status, dynamics, and trends in order to reverse biodiversity loss.
- Making effective use of available biodiversity monitoring data.
The call attracted a remarkable response, receiving 262 pre-proposals and 108 eligible full proposals. An independent Evaluation Committee rigorously evaluated these submissions, carefully ranking the projects. Subsequently, adhering strictly to the rankings, the Biodiversa+ Call Steering Committee, composed of all participating funding organisations, selected 33 research projects for funding. This decision represents a substantial financial commitment of over €46 million, including contributions from the European Commission.
These 33 funded projects showcase academic excellence while addressing pressing scientific and societal challenges. They foster collaboration across diverse disciplines and engage a broad spectrum of stakeholders.
- ANTENNA – Making technology work for monitoring pollinators (DE, NL, DK, ES, GR, IE)
- BIG_PICTURE – Developing data management and analytical tools to integrate and advance professional and citizen science camera-trapping initiatives across Europe (NO, IT, ES, SE, SI, DE, NL, NO, BE, FR, IT, PL)
- BioBoost+ – Boosting the Frequency and Scale of Marine Biodiversity Monitoring Using Digital Imagery and Artificial Intelligence (IT, NL, NO, GR, FR, ES, IL)
- BioMonI – Biodiversity monitoring of island ecosystems (DE, AT, PT, CH, FR, ES)
- CAMBioMed – Coordinated and adaptive monitoring of biodiversity change across Mediterranean rocky ecosystems (IT, GR, SE, ES, IT, NL, IL, HR)
- CoForFunc – Toward a biome-scale monitoring of the Congo basin FORest FUNCtional composition (FR, DE, ES, BE, CM, CG)
- DESTRESS – DEciphering temporal trends and safe operating spaces for river biodiversity within the context of multiple STRESSors (NO, DE, DK, SE, NL)
- DNAquaIMG – Innovating transnational aquatic biodiversity monitoring using high-throughput DNA tools and automated image recognition (DE, DK, AT, FI, FR, PL, IE, PT, CZ, RS, SE)
- DNASense – From gene to landscapes: development of environmental impact assessment tools for marine biodiversity monitoring using eDNA and remote sensing techniques (SE, BE, ES, FI, EE)
- EMPHATIC – E-DNA, Microbiomes, Photogrammetry and Hormones – Assessment Techniques In Cetaceans (ES, PT, FR, IT)
- ENABLElocal – Enabling use of biodiversity monitoring data in local conservation management (DE, CZ, SE)
- ForBioMon – Boosting FORest BIOdiversity MONitoring in Europe through smart combination of existing data (BE, SE, CZ, DE)
- Forest-Web-3.0 – Mobilising, harmonising and incentivising forest biodiversity and environmental monitoring data through Web 3.0 technology (NO, EE, BE)
- FunDive – Monitoring and mapping fungal diversity for nature conservation (DK, EE, ES, BE, IT, CZ, HU, DE, PT, FR, NO, FI, PL, CH, GR, NL)
- GINAMO – Genetic Indicators for NAture MOnitoring (DK, SE, BE, DE, NO, FR, IT, USA)
- GRASS4FUN – Monitoring the contribution of European grasslands to the conservation of soil biodiversity and ecosystem function under multiple global change stressors (ES, DE, CH, NL, FR, PT)
- HiRAD – Harmonising and integrating Radar-based approaches for monitoring Aerial bioDiversity (CH, NL, BE, FI, CH, FR, DE, USA)
- IMPACT – Integrated Monitoring of PArasites in Changing EnvironmenTs (NO, DE, CH, IE, NL, ES, CZ)
- METAPLANTCODE – Harmonizing plant metabarcoding pipelines in Europe to support monitoring activities in the field of plants and their functional organismic networks (DE, SE, NO, CH, NL, PT, FR, RO, GR, BE)
- MiDiPeat – Monitoring of peat microbial diversity through vegetation properties and its implication for carbon dynamics across European peatlands (FI, DE, EE, CZ)
- MonitAnt – Developing a European-level Monitoring strategy for mound- building Formica Ants and symbiont communities residing in nest mounds (DE, UK, IT, CZ, RO, FI, BE)
- MOOBYF – Monitoring the Open-Ocean BiodiversitY with Fishers (FR, ID, MV, BE, IT, DE)
- MoSTFun – Monitoring Strategies and Tools to address knowledge gaps on aquatic Fungal biodiversity (CH, CA, IT, DE, SE, NO, ES, EE, USA)
- MOTIVATE – Monitoring Of Terrestrial habitats by Integrating Vegetation Archive Time series in Europe (DE, AT, ES, IT, CZ, FI)
- NorTrack – The Northeast Atlantic Marine Tracking Network (IE, BE, NO, FR, DK, SE, CA)
- SEAGHOSTS – The global spatial ecology and conservation of the world’s smallest and elusive seabirds, the storm petrel (Hydrobatidae & Oceanitidae), across the Mediterranean and the North East Atlantic Ocean (ES, DK, DE, ES, PT, GR, NO, IT, IS, FR, IE, USA)
- SEPPI – Standardized European monitoring of plant-pollinator interactions (SEPPI) (DE, BE, CZ, FI, HU, IT, RO, LV)
- SoilRise – Raising awareness for soil biodiversity and multiplying monitoring by student-based Citizen Science (DE, AT, PL, IE, FR)
- Sub-BioMon – Developing and testing approaches to monitor subterranean biodiversity in karst (SI, BE, IT, HU, RO, LU)
- TABMON – Towards a Transnational Acoustic Biodiversity MOnitoring Network (NO, NL, FR, ES, NL)
- TRANSPONDER – Transnational biodiversity and ecosystem assessment approaches for pondscapes in Europe (DK, HU, BE, CH, ES, TR, DE)
- WildINTEL – Building a scalable WILDlife monitoring system by integrating remote camera sampling and artificial INTELligence with Essential Biodiversity Variables (PL, USA, ES, NO, DE)
- WOBEC – Weddell Sea Observatory of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Change (DE, SE, IT, NO, NL, BE, PL, USA)
Co-Chairs of the Committee
- Scientific co-Chair: Nathalie Pettorelli
- Policy-management co-Chair: Simon Gardner
Scientific experts (27)
- Kofi Akamani
- Peter Arcese
- Fernando Ascensão
- Clement Atzberger
- Isabelle Aubin
- Yu-Chung Chiang
- Nicola Clerici
- Richard Gregory (step 1 only)
- Grant Hamilton
- Stephanie Hampton
- Ferenc Jordan
- Dave Kendal
- Hojka Kraigher
- Anne Magurran
- Frank Masese
- Louise McRae
- Lina Mtwana Nordlund
- Zuzana Musilova
- Piotr Nowicki
- Nessa O’Connor
- Michael Pocock
- Natasha Ribeiro
- Oguz Turkozan
- Davnah Urbach
- Yeqiao Wang
- Monika Wulf
- Alexandra Zieritz
Policy/management experts (24)
- Mora Aronsson
- Johnny Berglund
- Karma Bouazza
- Peter Bridgewater
- Claire Brown
- Francisco Miguel Cortés Sánchez
- Roberto Crosti
- Adriana Ford
- Frederik Forsberg
- David Gutiérrez
- Colin Hindmarch
- Katia Hueso-Kortekaas
- Judy Fisher
- Peter Koncz
- Manuel Lago
- Maria Cecilia Londono Murcia
- Ivone Pereira Martins
- Vinod Bihari Mathur
- Angela Morgado (step 1 only)
- Nicholas Ozor
- Simona Polakova
- Christian Prip
- Sunandan Tiwari (step 1 only)
- Wouter Vanneuville
33 funding organisations from 23 countries (including Autonomous Province of Bolzano/Bozen) fund one or several research teams in this joint Call. In total, 46 funding organisations from 33 countries participated to this Call.
The General contact point for the follow-up of the funded projects are Anna Kotarba and Mateusz Sobczyk: biodiversa.projects@ncn.gov.pl (NCN, Poland)
Country | Funding organisation | Acronym | Name | |
Austria | Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung | FWF | Iris Fortmann Anna Dickermann |
iris.fortmann@fwf.ac.at Anna.dickermann@fwf.ac.at |
Belgium | Service Public Fédéral de Programmation Politique Scientifique | BELSPO | Aline van der Werf | aline.vanderwerf@belspo.be |
Belgium (Flanders) | Fonds Voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek-Vlaanderen | FWO | Toon Monbaliu Kristien Peeters |
europe@fwo.be |
Belgium (Wallonia-Brussels) | Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique | F.R.S.-FNRS | Joël Groeneveld | joel.groeneveld@frs-fnrs.be |
Brazil | Brazilian National Council of State Funding Agencies* | CONFAP | Elisa Natola | elisa.confap@gmail.com |
Brazil | Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development* | CNPq | Dileine Amaral da Cunha | dileine.cunha@cnpq.br |
Bulgaria | Bulgarian National Science Fund* | BNSF | Milena Aleksandrova | aleksandrova@mon.bg |
Czech Republic | Technology Agency of the Czech Republic | TA CR | Matej Stepanek | matej.stepanek@tacr.cz |
Denmark | Innovation Fund Denmark | IFD | Kathrine Hauge Madsen Aila Lonka |
kathrine.hauge.madsen@innofond.dk aila.lonka@innofond.dk |
Estonia | Sihtasutus Eesti Teadusagentuur | ETAg | Margit Suuroja | margit.suuroja@etag.ee |
Estonia | Estonian Ministry of the Environment | MoC_EE | Raili Allmäe | raili.allmae@envir.ee |
Estonia | Estonian Ministry of Rural Affairs | REM | Epp Eisler | epp.eisler@agri.ee |
Finland | Suomen Akatemia | AKA | Harri Hautala | harri.hautala@aka.fi |
Finland | Ministry of the Environment | MoE_FI | Tanja Suni | tanja.suni@ym.fi |
France | Office français de la biodiversité | OFB | Marie Pierrel | marie.pierrel@ofb.gouv.fr |
France | Agence Nationale de la Recherche | ANR | Céline Billiere, Sophie Germann, Clara Superbie |
biodiversa.cs@agencerecherche.fr |
Germany | VDI/VDE Innovation + Technik GmbH on behalf of BMBF | VDI/VDE-IT (on behalf of BMBF) | Rainer Schliep, Anne Endmann | rainer.schliep@vdivde-it.de anne.endmann@vdivde-it.de |
Germany | Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft e.V. | DFG | Gaby Rerig | gaby.rerig@dfg.de |
Greece | General Secretariat for Research and Innovation | GSRI | Anna Rosenberg, Antonios Gypakis | a.rosenberg@gsrt.gr agypa@gsrt.gr |
Hungary | Nemzeti Kutatási, Fejlesztési és Innovációs Hivatal | NKFIH | Dorottya Szemere | dorottya.szemere@nkfih.gov.hu |
Ireland | Environmental Protection Agency of Ireland | Irish EPA | Caroline Wynne Darragh O’Neill |
C.Wynne@epa.ie Da.ONeill@epa.ie |
Italy | Ministry of Universities and Research | MUR | Yasmine Iollo Aldo Covello |
yasmine.iollo@est.mur.gov.it aldo.covello@mur.gov.it |
Italy | Autonomous Province of Bolzano/Bozen | PROV.BZ | Laura Cherchi | Laura.Cherchi@provincia.bz.it |
Ivory Coast | Fonds pour la Science, la Technologie et I’Innovation* | FONTSI | Annette Ouattara
Patrick Assamoa |
annetteouattara@yahoo.fr patrick.assamoa@fonsti.org |
Latvia | Latvian Council of Science | LZP | Maija Bundule | maija.bundule@lzp.gov.lv |
Lithuania | Lietuvos mokslo taryba* | LMT | Viktoras Mongirdas | viktoras.mongirdas@lmt.lt |
Moldova (Republic of) | National Agency for Research and Development* | NARD | Olga Davidenco Vadim Iatchevici |
olga.davidenco@ancd.gov.md vadim.iatchevici@ancd.gov.md |
Morocco | Ministry of National Education, Vocational Training, Higher Education and Scientific Research* | MENFPESRS | Nihale EL AZZOUZI Abdelouahid EZZARFI Anas CHOKAIRI Jihane BENARAFA |
elazzouzi.enssup@gmail.com a.ezzarfi@yahoo.fr chokairi.anas@gmail.com jbenarafadrsi@gmail.com |
Netherlands | Dutch Research Council | NWO | Ron Winkler | r.winkler@nwo.nl |
Norway | Research Council of Norway | RCN | Jonas Enge | jen@rcn.no |
Poland | Narodowe Centrum Nauki | NCN | Mateusz Sobczyk Anna Kotarba |
mateusz.Sobczyk@ncn.gov.pl anna.kotarba@ncn.gov.pl |
Portugal | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia | FCT | Joana Pinheiro Pedro Ferreira |
joana.pinheiro@fct.pt pedromiguel.ferreira@fct.pt |
Romania | Unitatea Executivă pentru Finanțarea Învățământului Superior, a Cercetării, Dezvoltării și Inovării | UEFISCDI | Adrian Asanica Luciana Bratu Andreea Popa |
adrian.asanica@uefiscdi.ro luciana.bratu@uefiscdi.ro andreea.popa@uefiscdi.ro |
Slovakia | Slovak Academy of Sciences* | SAS | Zuzana Panisová | panisova@up.upsav.sk |
Slovenia | Ministry of Education, Science and Sport | MVZI | Katja Žagar | katja.zagar02@gov.si |
South Africa | Department of Science and Innovation* | DSI | Tugela Matubatuba Karabo Mphogo |
Tugela.matubatuba@dst.gov.za Karabo.Mphogo@dst.gov.za |
Spain | Fundación Biodiversidad | FB | Sandra Blázquez Carmen Gutiérrez Javier Remiro | biodiversa@fundacion-biodiversidad.es |
Spain | Agencia Estatal de Investigación | AEI | Patricia Vera Bravo Esther Chacón |
era-medioambiente@aei.gob.es |
Spain | CDTI* | CDTI E.P.E | Hector Gonzalez | partenariadosHE@cdti.es |
Sweden | Swedish National Space Agency |
SNSA | Selima Ben Mustapha | selima.benmustapha@snsa.se |
Sweden | Swedish EPA | SEPA | Hannah Östergård Roswall, Neda Farahbakhshazad |
Hannah.Ostergard@Naturvardsverket.se neda.farahba@naturvardsverket.se |
Switzerland | Swiss National Science Foundation | SNSF | Claudia Ellenrieder Madlen Korneli |
claudia.ellenrieder@snf.ch madlen.korneli@snf.ch |
Taiwan | National Science and Technology Council* | NSTC | Ching-Mei, Tang | cmtom@nstc.gov.tw |
Tunisia | Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research* | MHESR | Hayet Souai Saida Rafrafi |
souaihayet@gmail.com coopint2@gmail.com |
Türkiye | Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry* | TAGEM | Fatma SARSU Aysun Mete |
fatma.sarsu@tarimorman.gov.tr aysun.mete@tarimorman.gov.tr |
Türkiye | Türkiye Bilimsel ve Teknolojik Araştırma Kurumu | TUBITAK | Yeliz TÜMBİLEN ÖZER | yeliz.ozer@tubitak.gov.tr |
*Not funding research partner