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Biodiversa+ - The European Biodiversity Partnership

Biodiversa+ was officially launched on 1 October 2021 for a period of 7 years. It is built on almost 20 years of legacy from BiodivERsA, the pan-European network of biodiversity in which BELSPO has participated since the beginning in 2005. 

Biodiversa+ is implementing an ambitious programme to help ensure that, by 2030, nature in Europe is back on a path of recovery. 

Biodiversa+  has been co-designed by the European Commission (DG Research & Innovation, and DG Environment). The Partnership currently gathers over 80 research programmers, funders and environmental policy actors from more than 40 European and associated countries.

A core activity of the Partnership is to plan and support research on biodiversity through joint - often EC co-funded- calls for research projects. 
BELSPO has contributed financially to 11 pan-European calls for projects launched by biodiversa since 2008, enabling more than 40 Belgian teams to join the 147 projects selected for their high scientific quality and societal relevance.

You will find here the list of projects financed by BELSPO.

The BiodivERsA+ is co-funded by the European Union

2022 – 2023 BiodivMon
BiodivERsA+ projects in the programme Brain-be 2.0

  • BIG_PICTURE
    Developing data management and analytical tools to integrate and advance professional and citizen science camera-trapping initiatives across Europe
  • CoForFunc
    Toward a biome-scale monitoring of the Congo basin FORest FUNCtional composition
  • DNASense
    From gene to landscapes: development of environmental impact assessment tools for marine biodiversity monitoring using eDNA and remote sensing techniques
  • GINAMO
    Genetic Indicators for NAture Monitoring
  • HiRAD
    Harmonizing and integrating Radar-based approaches for monitoring Aerial bioDiversity
  • MonitAnt
    Developing a European-level Monitoring strategy for mound- building Formica Ants and symbiont communities residing in nest mounds
  • NorTrack
    The Northeast Atlantic Marine Tracking Network
  • Sub-BioMon
    Developing and testing approaches to monitor subterranean biodiversity in karst
  • TRANSPONDER
    Transnational biodiversity and ecosystem assessment approaches for pondscapes in Europe
  • WOBEC
    Weddell Sea Observatory of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Change

2021 – 2022 BiodivProtect
BiodivERsA+ projects in the programme Brain-be 2.0

  • DarCo
    The vertical dimension of conservation: A cost-effective plan to incorporate subterranean ecosystems in post-2020 biodiversity and climate change agendas

2020 – 2021 BiodivRestore
BiodivERsA+ projects in the programme Brain-be 2.0

  • InterRest
    Interactive effects of local and landscape scale restoration of semi-natural grasslands and agricultural fields on species interactions and ecosystem functions in different social-ecological systems

2019 – 2020 BiodivClim
BiodivERsA+ projects in the programme Brain-be 2.0

  • EPICC 
    Environmental Policy Instruments across Commodity Chains (EPICC): Comparing multi-level governance for Biodiversity Protection and Climate Action in Brazil, Colombia, and Indonesia
  • MixForChanges 
    Mixed Forest plantations for climate change mitigation and adaptation
  • PRINCESS
    Peatland Rewetting In Nitrogen-Contaminated Environments: Synergies and trade-offs between biodiversity, climate, water quality and Society

2018 – 2019 BiodivHealth
BiodivERsA+ projects in the programme Brain-be 2.0

  • BIODIV-AFREID
    Biodiversity changes in African forests and Emerging Infectious Diseases: should we worry?

2017 – 2018 BiodivScen
BiodivERsA projects in the programme Brain-be

  • GloBAM
    Towards monitoring, understanding and forecasting Global Biomass flows of Aerial Migrants

2015 – 2016 BiodivDynamics
BiodivERsA projects in the programme Brain-be

  • BIO-Tide-BE
    The role of microbial biodiversity in the functioning of marine tidal flat sediments
  • CLIMARCTIC
    Climate change impacts on Arctic soil and lake microbiomes
  • REPEAT
    REstoration and prognosis of PEAT formation in fens – linking diversity in plant functional traits to soil biological and biogeochemical processes
  • SOIFOREUROPE
    Predicting European forest soil biodiversity and its functioning under climate change
  • URBANMYCOSERVE
    Understanding and Managing Urban Ectomycorrhizal Fungi Communities to Increase the Health and Ecosystem Service Provisioning of Urban Trees
  • BIOVEINS
    Connectivity of green and blue infrastructures: living veins for biodiverse and healthy cities
  • FUNGREEN
    Functional connectivity and green infrastructure
  • IMAGINE
    Integrative Management of Green Infrastructures Multifunctionality, Ecosystem integrity and Ecosystem Services: From assessment to regulation in socio-ecological systems
  • URBANGAIA
    Managing urban Biodiversity and Green Infrastructure to increase city resilience
  • WOODNET
    Connectivity patterns and processes along a gradient of European landscapes with woody vegetation and spatial heterogeneity

2012 – 2013 BiodivInvasives
BiodivERsA projects in the programme Brain-be

  • DIARS
    Detection of plant invasive species and assessment of their impact on ecosystem properties through remote sensing
  • EXOTIC
    EXperimentally Orientated genomics to Tackle Insects adaptive Challenges during bioinvasions: the ladybird Harmonia axyridis as a model species
  • INVAXEN
    INVAsive biology of XENopus laievis in Europe ecology, impact and predictive models
  • RESIPATH
    Responses of Europena Forests and Society to Invasive Pathogens

2011 – 2012 BiodivScen2011
BiodivERsA projects in the programme SSD

  • COFORTIPS
    Congo basin forests: tipping points for biodiversity conservation and resilience of forested social and ecological systems
  • REGARDS
    REsilience of marginal GrAsslands and biodiveRsity management Decision Support
  • SIGNAL
    European gradients of resilience in the face of climate extremes
  • TIPPINGPOND
    Tipping points, biodiversity, resilience and ecosystem service: Pond as model systems

2010 – 2011 BiodivValues  
BiodivERsA projects in the programme SSD

  • INVALUABLE
    Integrating valuations, markets and policies for biodiversity and ecosystem services
  • SmallForest
    Biodiversity and ecosystem services of small forest fragments in European landscapes

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