New animated movie on the invasive potential of the African clawed frog

The INVAXEN project won the 3rd BiodivERsA Prize for Excellence and Impact. BiodivERsA is very happy to announce the release of its third animated video presenting the results of the INVAXEN research project. The project was funded under the 2012-13 joint call for research proposals on invasive species and biological invasions. Following the URBES project…

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Final Conference on the funded projects of the 2015-2016 BiodivERsA Call

On the 12th and 13th of November 2019, in Brussels, BiodivERsA held the final conference of the research projects funded through its 2015-2016 COFUND Call on “Understanding and managing biodiversity dynamics to improve ecosystem functioning and delivery of ecosystem services in a global change context: the cases of soil sand sediments, and land-river and sea-scapes”,…

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The BUFFER project wins the 2nd BiodivERsA Prize for Excellence and Impact

Check out the animated film presenting their work here BiodivERsA is very excited to announce the release of its second animated video presenting the results of the BUFFER research project! The project was funded under the 2011-12 BiodivERsA joint call on “Biodiversity Dynamics: Developing scenarios, identifying tipping points and improving resilience”. Following the URBES project (featured in a first…

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BiodivScen Research & Innovation Workshop – 15-16 May 2019

The Research and Innovation Workshop, organised on May 15th and 16th, offered an opportunity for relevant projects from the 2017-2018 COFUND call on « scenarios of biodiversity and ecosystem services » to engage with new stakeholders from the private sector. The main goal was to support the development of scenarios of biodiversity and ecosystem services that are useful for and usable…

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Joint BiodivERsA / Belmont Forum Call: Call brochure now available!

Discover the Call brochure analyzing the results of the joint BiodivERsA/Belmont Forum COFUND Call on “Scenarios of Biodiversity and ecosystem services“ We are pleased to announce the publication of the joint BiodivERsA/Belmont Forum Call Brochure, in which you will find more information on the call process (from the development of the call to the evaluation…

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New brief on policy tools to manage ecosystem services

A BiodivERsA policy brief based on the CONNECT, REGARDS, TALE and VITAL projects BiodivERsA is pleased to announce the publication of a new policy brief entitled “Policy tools to manage synergies and trade-offs between ecosystem services”, based on the combined results of the CONNECT, REGARDS, TALE and VITAL projects. This 4-page brief introduces the notion of trade-offs…

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BiodivERsA Citizen Science event 2-3 April 2019

On 2 and 3 April 2019, BiodivERsA co-organised a 2-days Citizen Science event – with the DITOs project and ECSA – at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences. A specific BiodivERsA workshop was dedicated to increase scientist awareness of the importance and added value of citizen science, explore methodologies and adopted practices ongoing in Europe…

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New publications available!

BiodivERsA is pleased to announce the publication of two new products: The brochure on BiodivERsA main achievements for research on biodiversity, ecosystem services and Nature-based Solutions over 2008-2018 Reading this brochure, you will learn more about the wide range of BiodivERsA activities, ranging from coordination and funding of research on biodiversity, ecosystem services and Nature-based…

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Publication of the Guide on Policy Relevance

New BiodivERsA guidance for project applicants BiodivERsA is pleased to annouce the publication of new guide on policy relevance and effective science-policy interfacing in research proposals. The objective of the present guide is to help researchers to: Better understand what is policy relevance of research Be aware of what the criteria are for evaluating policy relevance…

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Results of the joint Belmont Forum-BiodivERsA Call for proposals on biodiversity scenarios

21 international projects recommended for funding for over 28 Million euro! In October 2017, the Belmont Forum and BiodivERsA launched the BiodivScen joint call on “Scenarios of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services” with the support of the European Commission. Supported by 26 national/regional funding organisations from 23 countries, this internationalcall covered the two following themes: Development…

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