Workshops to advance transnational biodiversity monitoring
Biodiversa+ recently conducted two workshops in Helsinki, Finland, to foster a robust network of harmonised monitoring schemes across Europe…
New Release: Strategic Biodiversity Monitoring Report (Phase 1)
Biodiversa+ is thrilled to present a first overview of the European governance landscape for biodiversity monitoring. The European biodiversity monitoring landscape is complex and fragmented, involving multiple actors at various governance levels. To ensure compatibility and accessibility across different sources, a standardised approach to data collection and analysis is necessary. Enhanced coordination and broader access…
New Release: Harmonisation and Interoperability of Datasets
Biodiversa+ is proud to present its report on data interoperability, a key step for harmonising biodiversity monitoring across Europe. Ensuring that data from different sources, methods and scales are compatible and comparable is one of the main challenges for biodiversity monitoring. Data interoperability is essential to enable cross-border collaboration and inform policy decisions. However, the…
New publication – Mapping organisations funding and steering biodiversity monitoring
Biodiversa+ is pleased to present its mapping of national and sub-national organisations funding and steering biodiversity monitoring schemes! This mapping covers 23 countries and shows that: In most countries, Ministries of Environment and/or Environmental Protection Agencies are the actors in charge of steering and governing biodiversity monitoring schemes In 2/3 of the studied countries,…
Workshop on harmonising biodiversity monitoring protocols
As part of its work programme, Biodiversa+ aims to support interoperability and harmonisation of biodiversity monitoring protocols. In this context, a workshop on strategies to harmonise biodiversity monitoring protocols was held in Paris on 2 March 2023. This workshop gathered 26 actors involved in biodiversity monitoring, representing European and (sub-)national initiatives and institutions, researchers, Biodiversa+…
Workshop: Towards enhanced biodiversity monitoring technologies
Biodiversa+ is developing a roadmap to guide the implementation and operationalisation of novel technologies and approaches for biodiversity monitoring across Europe. To kickstart the development of a roadmap, Biodiversa+ convened an expert workshop…
Biodiversity monitoring protocols across countries
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…
Biodiversa+ and EuropaBON at the COP15 Science-Policy Forum
Towards a European Biodiversity Observation Network Our Chair and Coordinator, Hilde Eggermont, was at the 8th session of the COP15’s Science-Policy Forum alongside EuropaBON’s Henrique Pereira to present our efforts in setting up a regional observation network for biodiversity monitoring in Europe. In her presentation, Hilde discussed: The context and legal framework of biodiversity monitoring…
Use of biodiversity monitoring data in private decision making
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…
Workshop on data interoperability and harmonisation
4 November 2022 As part of its work programme, Biodiversa+ aims to support interoperability and harmonisation of biodiversity monitoring databases. In this context, a workshop on data interoperability and harmonisation was organised on the 4th of November 2022. This workshop was an opportunity for (sub-)national initiatives/databases to introduce their data architecture and data workflows and to discuss on…