12 October 2021 EUROPEAN PARTNERSHIP On the 12th of October 2021, Biodiversa+, the European Biodiversity Partnership organised a webinar on its first Call for research projects “Supporting the protection of biodiversity and ecosystems across land and sea”. This webinar was an opportunity to introduce Biodiversa+, present the topic and scientific content of the call, the type of…
Details30 August 2021 The Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) launched two new thematic assessments following the approval of its scoping document by its 8th plenary in June 2021: The “Nexus” assessment of the interlinkages among biodiversity, water, food and health The “Transformative change” assessment of the underlying causes of biodiversity loss,…
DetailsWhen 2021-05-27 13:30 to 2021-05-27 16:00 Location Belgium Participate in the webinar on “Nature as a solution for resilience, mitigation and sustainable development”! BiodivERsA co-organises an online webinar on nature-based solutions together with the DG Environment, the European Research Executive Agency, ICLEI and NetworkNature and the Aarhus University with the REGREEN project. This webinar, led…
Details13th of April 2021 Although the link between biodiversity and climate change has been known for a long time, there have been limited exchanges or collaborations between the different research communities. In recent years, it has been demonstrated that climate change and biodiversity loss are closely interlinked and should be tackled together. Climate change has…
DetailsDecember 2020 On the 15th of December 2020, BiodivERsA organised the virtual kick-off of the research projects funded under its 2018-2019 Joint Call on ‘biodiversity and its influence on animal, human and plant health’. 10 projects were funded through this joint call for a total of 11.8M€, including 9 collaborative research projects and 1 synthesis research…
DetailsWhen 2020-10-27 14:00 to 2020-10-27 15:30 Location Belgium Learn more about new BiodivERsA/WATER-JPI 2020-2021 Call on “Conservation and restoration of degraded ecosystems and their biodiversity” UPDATE: The video of the webinar is available in replay You can download the presentation used during the webinar here An information webinar will be organised on October 27, from…
DetailsWhen 2020-05-19 13:30 to 2020-05-19 16:45 Location Belgium Address Online webinar via Zoom BiodivERsA, the Pan-European Network of ministries and agencies programming and funding research on biodiversity, ecosystem services and Nature-based Solutions and the European Commission (DG Research & Innovation; DG Environment)are organizing an information webinar to present the possible future European Co-funded Partnership “Rescuing…
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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 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…
DetailsOn 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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