Welcome to the dedicated Biodiversa+ Partners’ Bulletin page! On this page, you’ll find everything that could not be fitted in the actual bulletin sent to your email.
Click on the icons below to jump to the corresponding work package’s section!
Welcome to the dedicated Biodiversa+ Partners’ Bulletin page! On this page, you’ll find everything that could not be fitted in the actual bulletin sent to your email.
Click on the icons below to jump to the corresponding work package’s section!
Following final confirmations by all participating funding organisations, 36 projects were funded under the BiodivProtect Call on « Supporting the protection of biodiversity and ecosystems across land and sea » – representing a total funding amount of over 44 Mio€ (including funding from the European Commission).
ANR (France) and NCN (Poland) have led the call evaluation process for this Call. And TA CR (Czech Republic) is now in charge to follow-up and monitor these funded projects.
More information on the funded projects will be available on the Call brochure (to be ready in April 2023) ; each funded projects will also have a dedicated page on Biodiversa+ website.
Join us on 19 April 2023 in Prague or online for the kick-off meeting of the 36 funded projects under BiodivProtect. The first day of the kick-off meeting is an open event, to which you are all invited to participate, at least online (on-site participation is upon invitation only). It will be a good opportunity to learn more about the 36 BiodivProtect research projects selected for funding.
On 20 April, there will be a closed session reserved for funded projects to allow for clustering and networking opportunities.
Besides, this meeting will be organised back to back with a Policy Forum on the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework and the Science needed to facilitate it (WP4) to be held on 18 April 2023.
Should you have any question on these events, do not hesitate to reach out to
In December, the WP2 task leaders organized an information session with all partners active in WP2 on biodiversity monitoring to provide an overview of the main 2022 achievements and next steps for biodiversity monitoring activities in Biodiversa+.
You want to learn more as well? Have a look at the minutes and slides of the information session!
Biodiversity monitoring activities have been quite intense in 2022 and allowed to release two main reports!
Keep an eye out for new publications that be released very soon!
Following a green light from the General Assembly, the Biodiversa+ pilot officially started on the 4th of January 2023 and will run for one year. This pilot covers the following topics:
As part of NetworkNature, Biodiversa+, is facilitating the development of the EU R&I Roadmap for Nature-based solutions. In July 2022, the first draft of the Roadmap was finalised.
This Roadmap aims to:
The current version of this roadmap has been developed in collaboration with numerous experts and stakeholders, including the European Commission’s DG R&I team on NBS. The finalised Roadmap will be delivered in May 2023.
It builds on work conducted by NetworkNature in which Biodiversa+ was closely involced, including a mapping of EU R&I projects on NBS, as well as the identification of knowledge gaps which led to the creation of the NetworkNature database of knowledge gaps and a database of EU research and innovation projects on nature-based solutions.
On 27 and 28 October 2022, a strategic workshop on NBS was organised in Oslo. This workshop gathered experts and stakeholders to provide inputs for Biodiversa+ concrete activities in support of NBS in the coming years. The workshop report will be delivered and shared in March 2023.
In 2022, the Biodiversa+ launched two systematic reviews.
Building on the outcomes of a dialogue event on the topic of biodiversity and transformative change organised with researchers and stakeholders, the French ministry of environment (MTE_FR) launched two surveys to help the framing of activities that Biodiversa+ could implement perform on this topic.
Forgot to fill this partner survey? You are in luck, the deadline was extended to 9 February 2023!
To promote collaboration between researchers, policy makers and practioners, Biodiversa+ attended the kick-off meeting of the Bio-Agora project in November. Bio-Agora aims to set-up the science service, the scientific pillar of the Knowledge Centre for Biodiversity, which objectives is to offer support to all bodies involved in the implementation and governance of the EU Biodiversity strategy for 2030.
On 18 April 2023 in Prague, a policy forum on the knowledge and tools to facilitate and support the implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework in the European context will be organised by Formas.
WP4 is actively working towards developing science-based guidance to lead policy development!
In September 2022, a concept note outlining a proposed collaboration approach with IPBES and Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) was completed. The goal of this document is to examine various ways for Biodiversa+ to collaborate with both fora to bring forward knowledge that can be used to support biodiversity policies. The main objectives of such collaboration are to:
This concept note was finalised using the feedback from the General Assembly session organised in February 2022, as well as responses from a survey shared in May. We would like to thank all of you for your contributions.
Read the concept note. (NB | this document is for internal use within Biodiversa+ only, it should not be shared with externals)
In November 2022, we released our Partner Communication Toolkit. This toolkit can help you communicate about Biodiversa+ to people outside of the Partnership.
In this toolkit you will find:
The elements from the toolkit can directly be reused on your organisation’s website and in external communications, or can serve as an inspiration to help you draft your own content.
We are very happy to have launched our new website in November 2022 with the help of Conjecto, our service provider. In addition of this “general” website, we are also working on three additional modules:
WP6 has started working on two new animated videos to add to our collection:
Biodiversa+ is looking to provide capacity building activities on communication to its funded projects. PIs were surveyed on their wants and needs to foster the communication and impact of their projects, and we are exploring Biodiversa+’s in-house capacity to meet these needs.
By filling in this survey, you can help us:
Do you feel like you can’t offer any help on the topics? Please forward this survey to the people in your organisation who work on communication. Their answers would help us tremendously!
Key collaborators refer to stakeholders directly engaging in a key and strategic collaboration with Biodiversa+ at the task/work package level, through a signed letter of collaboration that is not legally binding and defines the general terms of the collaboration, including an agreement on mutual communication efforts.
During the General Assembly of September 2022, it was agreed to explore the establishment of key collaboration with the following initiatives:
The first key collaboration was concluded with EuropaBON in 2022. More key collaborations are under discussion and should be concluded in 2023, notably with Alternet in particular in the context of the co-organisation of summerschools.
In September 2022, Biodiversa+ actively supported the organisation of the 2022 Alternet Summer School (co-funding, students and speakers participation, overall support) on “Biodiversity and societal transformation: perspectives on science and policy”.
This collaboration will be strengthened in 2023 with the co-organisation of the 2023 edition of the summer school that will take place in Peyresq, France from 30 August to 9 September 2023. Biodiversa+ will actively collaborate in the 2023 edition by contributing to the content definition and providing a financial support to its organisation.
Since March 2022, the Advisory Board (AB) and Enlarged Stakeholder Board (ESB) have been successfully set up, with regular board meetings and ad hoc mobilisations throughout the year. We are looking forward to the next AB meetings in May and November 2023 and ESB meeting in May, all in person.
We would appreciate if you could submit your data by 15 March 2023. If you need support, please reach out to Lise Goudeseune.
In order to get budget from the European Commission for the Biodiversa+ activities that will be organised in Year 3 & 4 (i.e. from October 2023 to September 2025), we have to submit by 28 March to the European Commission a proposal for a 2nd instalment.
To meet the 28 March deadline, we foresee the following process:
For more information, check the email sent on 6 January with the following object: [Biodiversa+] 2nd instalment – Important information on the way forward)