The “Nitrogen pollution and climate change carbon storage and biodiversity of peatlands“ and the “Adaptation of trees and forests to climate change: the importance of genetic variability” policy briefs are 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…
When 2014-09-30 10:00 to 2014-09-30 17:00 Location European Parliament, Brussels Belgium The European Parliament Intergroup on ‘Climate Change, Biodiversity and Sustainable Development’, in partnership with IUCN – International Union for Conservation of Nature and the European Commission will held on the 30th of September a conference on Nature-Based Solutions. Europe faces enormous challenges in the…
On 11th and 12th June 2014, the BiodivERsA consortium organized a “horizon scanning workshop” in Brussels to investigate key future challenges and policy needs for biodiversity research at European level. In this context and along with the EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020, the “nature-based solutions” concept has been emerging, calling for renewed needs of knowledge…
The BiodivERsA network is pleased to announce that the BiodivERsA3 project has been selected by the European Commission. The European Commission has accepted to fund the network for another 5 years period in the form of an ERA-Net COFUND tool under the Horizon 2020 funding programme, which will secure BiodivERsA activities in a third phase…
BiodivERsA is pleased to announce the publication of a new newsletter In this newsletter you will discover the results of the BiodivERsA/FACCE-JPI joint call. You will also find further details on the profile of two partners that participated to this call. The newsletter also features articles about the outputs of a workshop on nature-based solutions…
Preliminary results from the fifth BiodivERsA call on ”Promoting synergies and reducing trade-offs between food supply, biodiversity and ecosystem services” Fostering a recurrent funding opportunity for transnational biodiversity and ecosystem research across Europe, BiodivERsA has joined forces in November 2013 with the FACCE-JPI* and launched a co-branded call for research projects on « Promoting synergies and…
On 11th and 12th June 2014, the BioadivERsA consortium organized a “horizon scanning workshop” in Brussels to investigate key future challenges and policy needs for biodiversity research at European level. In this context and along with the EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020, the “nature-based solutions” concept has been emerging, calling for renewed needs of knowledge…
New study cofunded by Biodiversa through the project RACE. A paper is just out in PNAS featuring a study that was cofunded by Biodiversa to the project RACE. Matthew Fisher, coordinator of the RACE project and co-author of the study cofunded by BiodiVERsA explains: “It is a complete mystery why we are seeing this outbreak…
Preliminary results from the fourth BiodivERsA call on invasive species and biological invasions As part of BiodivERsA’s strategy to integrate biodiversity research in Europe, 12 BiodivERsA members launched a joint call on “Invasive species and biological invasions” in November 2012. This call addressed the following themes, across all ecosystems and organisms: Demonstrating and characterising the…
Briefings #1 and #2 are now available! BiodivERsA partners are pleased to announce the publication of the first two 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,…