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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.

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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.

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33 funded projects

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)

Evaluation Committee

Co-Chairs of the Committee

Scientific co-Chair: Nathalie Pettorelli
Policy-management co-Chair: Simon Gardner

Other members of the committee

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

Funding Organisations

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	Email
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