The funded projects should generate knowledge to safeguard biodiversity, ecosystems and the benefits these may provide to people, by implementing transformative change. Such transformative change is essential to reduce and reverse key threats to biodiversity and ecosystems and to address the drivers and escalating effects of biodiversity loss, climate change, and pollution. This call will support transnational, interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, and/or cross-sectoral research and innovation projects that demonstrate academic excellence and potential for societal and policy impact regarding biodiversity, aiming to connect science, society, policy, and practices for transformative change. Research projects will be expected to take a holistic approach and to mobilise as needed natural sciences, technical sciences, social sciences, humanities, and arts. The proposals must also present clearly their international added value.
Biodiversa+ is the European co-funded biodiversity partnership supporting excellent research on biodiversity with an impact for policy and society. It was jointly developed by BiodivERsA and the European Commission and was officially launched on 1 October 2021. Biodiversa+ is part of the European Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 that aims to put Europe’s biodiversity on a path to recovery by 2030.
