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…
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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…
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Biodiversa+ is happy to announce the launch of the BiodivClim Knowledge Hub on the topic “Potential of nature-based solutions for mitigating and adapting to climate change”.
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Biodiversa+ is pleased to announce that our next joint call for research will be on Nature-based Solutions! Nature-based solutions are understood as ‘actions to protect, conserve, restore, sustainably use and manage natural or modified terrestrial, freshwater, coastal and marine ecosystems, which address social, economic and environmental challenges effectively and adaptively, while simultaneously providing human well-being,…
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In October 2021 Biodiversa+ has launched its BiodivProtect call on “Supporting the protection of biodiversity and ecosystems across land and sea”. The call funds 3-year transnational research projects, and was co-funded by the European Commission. It addressed the following three (non-exclusive) themes: Knowledge for identifying priority conservation areas, establishing effective and resilient ecological networks, enhancing…
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One of Biodiversa+’s objectives is to harmonise biodiversity monitoring schemes across Europe. A key step to tackle this issue was to carry out a literature survey on existing transnational biodiversity monitoring programmes, to get an idea of what is being done and how. This study has analysed fourteen case studies. It shows the possible strategy…
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Biodiversa+, through the French Foundation for Research on Biodiversity (FRB) has opened a call for tenders. We are looking for a service provider to carry out a literature review on the capacity of NBS to foster transformative change for the sustainable use and management of biodiversity in socio-ecological systems. Through its subtask “Desk studies and…
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To keep connecting with our community on the fast growing social network, Biodiversa+ has created an account on Mastodon. Biodiversa+ is currently cross-posting tweets on our Mastodon account. To keep up with our content there too, please follow Biodiversa+!
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Biodiversa+ is pleased to have supported the development of the NetworkNature database of EU research and innovation projects on nature-based solutions. The database has identified over 250 NBS projects ranging from 2011 to 2021, among which 35 were (co)funded by Biodiversa. The database was used to perform an analysis of EU R&I projects in terms…
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As part of its work programme, Biodiversa+ aims to support and reinforce the use of biodiversity data in decision making (public and private). To address this objective, a workshop was organised on the 8 November 2022 in Brussels. This workshop gathered 20 private sector actors including private companies, agricultural representatives, NGOs from the local to the…
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