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🚀 It has been one week since the kick-off meeting of the #BiodivTransform call, where 35 newly funded projects introduced themselves. More than a portfolio of projects contributing to biodiversity research, they are part of a broader effort to understand how biodiversity decline is produced through institutions, infrastructures, incentives, values and power relations. Explore below the different pathways covered by the funded projects. Are you as excited as we are to follow them as they develop? More information: https://lnkd.in/dfb7q_3h #TransformativeChange

Haven’t had the chance to register for #BioMonWeek26? Good news: you can still attend the plenary sessions online! Five sessions will be livestreamed throughout the event. ➡️ Explore the full programme and register: https://lnkd.in/dsbXZNW7 The first livestreamed session will take place on Tuesday 5 May, 09:00-10:00 CEST. It will feature the keynote “Bridging Research and Policy: the state of art and future of biodiversity monitoring”, which will explore biodiversity monitoring from both research and policy perspectives, placing it in its broader societal context. The session will examine how monitoring can better integrate with key initiatives and clarify the roles of research, development and implementation, providing a clearer understanding of how to align research, policy and practice. With Nathalie Pettorelli (The Zoological Society of London) and Marialuisa Tamborra (European Commission). 👉 Register now: https://lnkd.in/eKvJYZse BioMonWeek26 is co-organised by Biodiversa+, Alliance for Nature, BioAgora Project, GBIF: The Global Biodiversity Information Facility and MARCO-BOLO #BioMonWeek2026 #BiodiversityMonitoring

How can soil monitoring data, AI-powered indicators and field-tested methodologies support the implementation of the Nature Restoration Regulation (NRR)? Which soil health indicators should be monitored to evaluate the suitability and effectiveness of nature-based solutions (NbS)? Researchers, policy experts and practitioners will explore these questions and more during the first dialogue of AI 4 Soil Health 2026 Cross-Policy Soil Dialogues series. With the participation of Vito Emanuele Cambria, co-chair BiodivRestore Knowledge Hub (Sapienza Università di Roma), Eleonora Peruzzi (CNR-IRET, Pisa), Christine Alewell (University of Basel) & Vince Chukwu, PhD (University of Aberdeen). ➡️ Participation is free, but registration is required: https://lnkd.in/e_8K5hTg

After the Science-Policy Forum, the kick-off, and yesterday’s clustering workshop, BiodivTransform feels less like a set of individual projects and more like a growing community. This final workshop focused on something simple but important: helping projects spot what they share, where collaboration makes sense, and how those connections might turn into concrete joint outputs. It was a fitting way to close this event series: not with another presentation, but with a moment dedicated to building links across the portfolio. A warm thank you to our hosting partner Fundo Regional da Ciência e Tecnologia (FRCT), our team of organisers, speakers & facilitators, and all participants who helped make these BiodivTransform events so thoughtful, open and collaborative! #BiodivTransform #Biodiversity #TransformativeChange #ResearchImpact

BioAgora is seeking experts to form a panel that will support the European Commission in developing a Long-term Strategic Research Agenda for Biodiversity under Horizon Europe. Participation is pro bono, but the report is expected to have high visibility and strong policy impact. The work will run from May to September 2026. 🗓️ Application deadline: 26 April 2026.

For decades, biodiversity has been on policy agendas. Yet biodiversity loss continues. At the Biodiversa+ Science-Policy Forum, discussions pointed to a hard truth: the issue is not only ambition, but the systems, incentives and practices that continue to hold change back. One recurring point was that biodiversity cannot be treated separately from climate, the economy, or broader social systems. As one panellist argued, nature-based solutions are not enough if the wider economy remains blind to nature. What is needed is not only better conservation tools, but a broader shift towards a nature-based economy. The panels also brought attention to actors that are often missing from discussions of transformative change. One contribution noted that while civil society appears in around 30% of the scientific literature on transformative change, social movements and NGOs appear in less than 1%. Yet many of these actors are already on the frontlines, defending territories and ecosystems, often at considerable personal risk. The discussion also challenged some conventional conservation approaches. Examples included protected areas that exclude Indigenous people whose own practices help sustain the land, and renewable energy projects developed on Sami reindeer grazing lands without their consent. These examples pointed to a broader issue: transformative change depends not only on better policies, but on more inclusive ways of engaging with people, knowledge and place. This is where ideas such as co-production and a dialogue of knowledges come in. These approaches are demanding. They require time, different institutional incentives, and a move away from extractive research practices. A second panel brought these questions directly into the BiodivTransform projects. Researchers reflected on the difficulty of working with complex systems, where change is emergent and cannot be managed in linear ways. Concepts such as processual accountability point towards more adaptive approaches, grounded not only in predefined plans but in learning during implementation. Across the discussion, attention repeatedly returned to the role of research itself. How it engages with society, works across disciplines, relates to different knowledge systems, and reflects on its own position within the systems it seeks to influence. Transformative change, in that sense, is not only an outcome. It is also a way of working. #BiodivTransform #Biodiversity #TransformativeChange #SciencePolicy #IPBES #KMGBF

How can biodiversity researchers engage more effectively with IPBES, CBD and other international science-policy conventions? This was the focus of today’s Biodiversa+ capacity-building workshop for #BiodivTransform projects. Through presentations, testimonials and interactive working sessions, participants discussed how to: 🔹 engage in international biodiversity processes as researchers 🔹 position future project results in relation to #KMGBF targets 🔹 identify where BiodivTransform projects may contribute to critical knowledge gaps 🔹 think about tools for sharing relevant outcomes with policy audiences This workshop reflects an important part of Biodiversa+’s role: not only supporting excellent research on biodiversity, but also helping strengthen the connections between research, policy and practice. We look forward to following how BiodivTransform projects build on these exchanges in the years ahead! ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eX3YdEj9 #Biodiversity #TransformativeChange #SciencePolicy

Great to see the BiodivPond moving into the field 👏 This pilot is bringing together partners across Europe to test standardised biodiversity monitoring in ponds, combining bioacoustics with shared protocols and coordinated sampling. With dozens of recorders deployed across multiple countries, the aim is not just to collect data, but to explore how comparable, scalable monitoring can work in practice for these often-overlooked ecosystems. Looking forward to the discussions at this week’s workshop! ➡️ For more info about #BiodivPond: https://lnkd.in/engVNUzz

Only a few days to go. Transformative change is now part of the biodiversity policy vocabulary. The real test is what happens when it meets existing institutions, competing priorities and uneven power relations. It raises hard questions: who decides, who bears the costs, which trade-offs are accepted, how far current policy frameworks can really go… Join the Biodiversa+ Science-Policy Forum on 21 April: ➡️ https://lnkd.in/gQYYu8eA #BiodivTransform #TransformativeChange #KMGBF #IPBES

A new #CORDIS Results Pack highlights how European research is advancing biodiversity monitoring. It features Biodiversa+, showcasing its work on testing new tools through pilots and supporting research that improves how monitoring data are collected, processed and shared. The projects presented illustrate the breadth of innovation emerging across Europe. They also point to a broader challenge: ensuring that biodiversity monitoring efforts can be connected, compared and effectively used across countries and systems. Biodiversa+ plays a key role in addressing this challenge by providing a framework that connects actors, supports alignment and strengthens long-term coordination. These questions will also be at the heart of discussions during Biodiversity Monitoring Week 2026 in May, when the community will come together to reflect on the future of biodiversity monitoring in Europe. The Results Pack highlights a strong set of projects, including Biodiversity Genomics Europe, TETTRIs, MARCO-BOLO, OBAMA-NEXT Project, BIOcean5D, #Biomonitor4CAP, MAMBO Project, GUARDEN, Nature First, Safeguard Project, and BioDiMoBot Thanks to Publications Office of the European Union, EU Science, Research and Innovation, EU Environment and Climate, and European Research Executive Agency (REA) for this pack and their support! ➡️ Explore the Pack: https://lnkd.in/e9AyeikD #Biodiversity #Monitoring #HorizonEurope #CORDIS #BioMonWeek