Recognising that biodiversity issues are often at the cross-roads of numerous political and socio-economic interests requiring to account for many sectors (environment but also agriculture and fisheries, mining, energy, health etc.), and to promote a cross-sectoral approach towards the conservation and sustainable management and use of biodiversity, Biodiversa+ works in synergy with many initiatives and engages with a variety of stakeholders from policy, practice and business, at every step of its process and in all its core activities.
In this context, Biodiversa+ is promoting both science-society and science-policy interfacing throughout the whole research process, from inception onwards. While academic excellence is a major criterion for evaluating research to be supported in Biodiversa+, successful projects are expected to demonstrate that innovative approaches will be used (from co-design of programmes to promotion of research results) to increase the societal impact of the funded research.
