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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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Call for proposal

HORIZON-CL6-2021-BIODIV-02

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Funding Scheme

HORIZON-COFUND - HORIZON Programme Cofund Actions

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FONDATION FRANCAISE POUR LA RECHERCHE SUR LA BIODIVERSITE
Net EU contribution
€ 1 489 189,00
Address
RUE SAINT JACQUES 195
75005 Paris
France

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Ile-de-France Ile-de-France Paris
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Total cost
€ 5 068 665,00

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