PAREUS

Providing Adaptive knowledge for Ratcheting up the EU Biodiversity strategy for Sustainable landscapes and protected areasCallDuration 2023-03-01 to 2026-02-28 Total Grant Approx. 700 thsd. EUR More information Dr. Roel May roel.may@nina.no Partners of the project Department of Terrestrial Ecology, Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, Trondheim, Norway Department ECODIV – Research Unit RECOVER, National Research Institute…

Launch of key collaboration between Biodiversa+ and Alternet!

Alternet is now officially a key collaborator of Biodiversa+! In February 2023, Biodiversa+ and Alternet officially became key collaborators! Our two initiatives join forces to strengthen the European science-policy/science-society interface and to foster capacity building for researchers from the biodiversity field.   Specifically, Biodiversa+ and Alternet collaborate on the development and organisation of the Alternet Summer…

New publication – Mapping organisations funding and steering biodiversity monitoring

Biodiversa+ is pleased to present its mapping of national and sub-national organisations funding and steering biodiversity monitoring schemes!   This mapping covers 23 countries and shows that: In most countries, Ministries of Environment and/or Environmental Protection Agencies are the actors in charge of steering and governing biodiversity monitoring schemes In 2/3 of the studied countries,…

Workshop on harmonising biodiversity monitoring protocols

As part of its work programme, Biodiversa+ aims to support interoperability and harmonisation of biodiversity monitoring protocols. In this context, a workshop on strategies to harmonise biodiversity monitoring protocols was held in Paris on 2 March 2023. This workshop gathered 26 actors involved in biodiversity monitoring, representing European and (sub-)national initiatives and institutions, researchers, Biodiversa+…

Science-Policy Forum – Registrations open

When 18 April 2023 From 13:30 to 17:45 CEST Location Online – open to all Prague, CZ – invitation only Address Evropská 15, 160 41 Prague, Czech Republic Knowledge and capacity to facilitate the implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework Sign up to virtually attend this science-policy forum on 18 April 2023!   The…

Alternet Summer School – Registrations Open!

Biodiversity and Society: science, policy and transformative change Apply now and make the most of this year’s summer school on Biodiversity and Society: science, policy and transformative change, taking place from 30 August to 9 September 2023!   Biodiversa+ is pleased to co-organise this summer school and to make participation grants available to Biodiversa+ researchers! This…

NICHES International Symposium on Nature-based Solutions in Urban Water Systems

Join the ‘NICHES International Symposium on Nature-based Solutions in Urban Water Systems: Fostering Just, Sustainable and Resilient Urban Transformations’ on 6 March 2023 from 10:00 to 13:00 CET in the Casa Convalescència in Barcelona!  The Biodiversa-funded project NICHES, Nature’s Integration in Cities’ Hydrologies, Ecologies and Societies, invites you to its first symposium! The project was funded under our BiodivRestore call. NICHES…

Topic of our fourth joint call is known!

Biodiversa+ is pleased to announce that our fourth joint call for research will be on Societal Transformation! This call will be embedded in our flagship program “Supporting societal transformation for the sustainable use and management of biodiversity” and will be co-funded by the European Commission.   Learn more about our flagship programmes.   More information about this call will be…