Project description
Coordinating research, mobilising partners to achieve conservation goals
It is essential to value, protect and restore nature. This is the goal of the EU Biodiversity Strategy 2030, which is a comprehensive plan to conserve biodiversity in Europe. The EU-funded Biodiversa-plus project is crucial for the successful implementation of the strategy. Bringing together 75 organisations from 37 countries, including environmental authorities, research ministries, funding organisations, and environmental protection agencies, the project will work to coordinate research programmes and mobilise key partners for biodiversity research and innovation. Specifically, it will improve monitoring, generate actionable knowledge, expand the evidence base, and make the business case for conservation. It will also provide science-based support for policymaking.
Objective
Being one of the main actions of the EU Biodiversity Strategy 2030, the European Biodiversity Partnership (Biodiversa+) will coordinate research programmes between EU and its Member States and Associated Countries, mobilising environmental authorities as key partners for implementing biodiversity research and innovation, along with ministries of research, funding organisations, and environmental protection agencies (75 organisations from 37 countries). Biodiversa+ has five overarching objectives: (1) improve monitoring of biodiversity and ecosystem services across Europe (status and trends); (2) generate actionable knowledge to tackle the direct and indirect drivers of biodiversity loss; (3) expand and improve the evidence base, and accelerate the development and wide deployment of NbS to meet societal challenges across Europe; (4) make the business case for the conservation and restoration of biodiversity; and (5) ensure efficient science-based support for biodiversity policy making in Europe. Biodiversa+ will meet these objectives by (i) setting up a pan-European network of harmonized monitoring schemes, building on existing national/regional monitoring schemes, creating capacity for setting up new schemes, and feeding into the EC Knowledge Center for Biodiversity; (ii) coordinating research programmes between the EU and its Member States and associated countries, thereby ensuring the long-term pan-European research agenda is co-created and implemented; (iii) contributing science-based methodologies to account for and possibly value ecosystem services and the natural capital, and to assess the dependency and impact of businesses on biodiversity and (iv) better linking of R&I programmes to the policy arena, providing greater input to policy making and improving the assessment of policy efficiency. Doing so, Biodiversa+ will help ensure that, by 2030, nature in Europe is back on a path of recovery, and by 2050 people are living in harmony with Nature.
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75005 Paris
France
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Participants (70)
1010 Wien
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1010 Wien
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1090 Wien
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1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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5100 Namur
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1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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1000 Sofia
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1618 Sofia
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1000 Sofia
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10000 Zagreb
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2252 Nicosia
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100 10 Praha
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160 00 Praha
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1100 Kobenhavn K
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1200 Copenhagen
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51004 Tartu
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10133 Tallinn
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10117 TALLINN
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00531 Helsinki
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00023 Helsinki
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75013 Paris
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1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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92055 Paris
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94300 Vincennes
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53175 Bonn
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10117 Berlin
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53175 Bonn
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51147 Koln
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10623 Berlin
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115 10 ATHENS
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1077 Budapest
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105 Reykjavik
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Y35 W821 Wexford
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9195024 Jerusalem
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00147 Roma
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00153 Roma
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39100 Bolzano
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LV-1050 RIGA
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1050 Riga
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1050 Riga
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LT-01103 Vilnius
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2004 CHISINAU
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81000 Podgorica
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10020 Rabat
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2594 AC Den Haag
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2593 CE Den Haag
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7010 Trondheim
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0283 Oslo
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30 312 Krakow
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1249 074 Lisboa
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9500-094 Ponta Delgada
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010362 Bucuresti
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81235 Bratislava
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814 38 Bratislava
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974 01 BANSKA BYSTRICA
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1000 Ljubljana
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0001 Brummeria
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28071 Madrid
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28100 Alcobendas
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28005 Madrid
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28020 Madrid
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11182 Stockholm
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106 48 Stockholm
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171 04 Solna
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1002 Tunis
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06000 Ankara
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06100 Ankara
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148 00 Prague
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28001 Madrid
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Partners (4)
Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement.
1001 TIRANA
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Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement.
Tirana
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Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement.
1001 Tirana
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Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement.
3012 Bern
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