Joint FACCE/BiodivERsA call now open!

Pan-European call for research projects on ”promoting synergies and reducing trade-offs between food supply, biodiversity and ecosystem services” The European partners in the BiodivERsA/FACCE-JPI networks have joined efforts to organize and fund a pan-European call for research projects on ”promoting synergies and reducing trade-offs between food supply, biodiversity and ecosystem services”. The partners have a…

React on the draft stakeholder engagement toolkit

The draft stakeholder engagement toolkit prepared in BiodivERsA is now available for consultation. Don't hesitate to send us your feedbacks! BiodivERsA aims to improve cooperation between scientists and stakeholders by establishing best practices for engagement (task 2.1); this is being achieved by developing a toolkit that will support research project teams to better plan and…

Launch of the BiodivERsA database

The BiodivERsA partners are pleased to announce that the database is now accessible online (data.biodiversa.org)! One of the objectives of the BiodivERsA consortium is to produce a comprehensive ‘map’ of the current state of research on biodiversity and associated ecosystem services in Europe in terms of projects, programmes and funding, to improve the identification of…

A new BiodivERsA Policy Brief published!

Briefing “Natura 2000 and Europe’s forests“ now available! BiodivERsA partners are pleased to announce the publication of a new BiodivERsA policy briefs. The work, coordinated on behalf of BiodivERsA by the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, has procured IUCN Europe – Brussels, to act as interpreters/intermediaries in the dissemination of key BiodivERsA-funded research results to policy-makers,…

International Conference “Beyond Economic Valuation: Alternative Ways to express the Value of Biodiversity in Science and Policy”

When 2014-03-24 09:00 to 2014-03-25 18:00 Location Natural Science Museum Address Rue Vautier 29, 1000 Brussels Belgium The EU-BIOMOT consortium and the BIOGOV unit of the University catholique de Louvain are organizing an international conference and a science-policy-society meeting on “Beyond Economic Valuation: Alternative Ways to express the Value of Biodiversity in Science and Policy”.…

New BiodivERsA Newsletter available!

In this Newsletter you will find further details on the joint call launched with FACCE-JPI in November. It also includes short summaries of the 2012-2013 funded projects and information on the launch of the BiodivERsA database. The newsletter also features an article about a meting hold in the European Parliament on the EU 2020 biodiversity…

Biodiversity Institute Symposium (Oxford): Biodiversity Resilience

When 2013-10-02 00:00 to 2013-10-03 00:00 Location Oxford United Kingdom The annual Biodiversity Institute Symposium this year (2nd- 3rd October, 2013) will tackle the subject of Biodiversity Resilience. Factors leading to the loss of resilience in social-ecological systems are the focus of many excellent on-going research programmes and symposia. However, this two-day symposium aims to highlight…

Second Biodiversity Knowledge Conference

When 2013-09-24 00:00 to 2013-09-26 00:00 Location Berlin Germany Towards a future Network of Knowledge on biodiversity and ecosystem services in Europe The second BiodiversityKnowledge conference will be held in Berlin (Jerusalemkirche) from September 24th-26th, 2013. The objective of this meeting is to discuss and finalize the recommended design of a future Network of Knowledge…

European Parliament Event

When 2013-09-24 00:00 Location Brussels Belgium Meeting the EU 2020 Biodiversity Targets: Mainstreaming Conservation In the context of the conference of the European Parliament intergroup on ‘Climate change, biodiversity & sustainable development’, DG-RTD and IUCN are organising an event including 4 round table debates in the European Parliament (Brussels) on Tuesday 24th of September(09:00 – 18.30). The aim…