CORDIS · EuropaBON

Europa Biodiversity Observation Network: integrating data streams to support policy

Code: EuropaBON
Programme: H2020
Call: SC5-33-2020
Status: CLOSED
Period: 2020-12-01 – 2024-05-31

Total cost (whole consortium)2 994 319 €

EU contribution (whole consortium)2 994 319 €

EU contribution to Bulgarian participants132 550 €

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Participants

Organisations	Role	Country	Grant
MARTIN-LUTHER-UNIVERSITAT HALLE-WITTENBERG	coordinator	DE	542 340 €
UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM	participant	NL	326 975 €
INTERNATIONALES INSTITUT FUER ANGEWANDTE SYSTEMANALYSE	participant	AT	298 969 €
HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM FUR UMWELTFORSCHUNG GMBH - UFZ	participant	DE	279 031 €
CENTRO DE INVESTIGACION ECOLOGICA Y APLICACIONES FORESTALES	participant	ES	237 500 €
THE UNIVERSITY OF READING	participant	UK	220 320 €
NORSK INSTITUTT FOR VANNFORSKNING STI	participant	NO	198 854 €
ASSOCIACAO BIOPOLIS	participant	PT	159 375 €
VLAAMSE INSTELLING VOOR TECHNOLOGISCH ONDERZOEK N.V.	participant	BE	140 914 €
PENSOFT PUBLISHERS	participant	BG	132 550 €
INSTITUTO DE GEOGRAFIA E ORDENAMENTO DO TERRITORIO DA UNIVERSIDADE DELISBOA	participant	PT	131 900 €
THE UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS	participant	UK	102 000 €
TARTU ULIKOOL	participant	EE	82 500 €
JRC -JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE- EUROPEAN COMMISSION	participant	BE	78 710 €
DE VLINDERSTICHTING	participant	NL	45 194 €
UNIVERSIDAD DE OVIEDO	participant	ES	17 188 €
STIFTELSEN NORSK INSTITUTT FOR NATURFORSKNING NINA	participant	NO	0 €

Description

Observations are key to understand the drivers of biodiversity loss, and the impacts on ecosystem services and ultimately on people. Many EU policies and initiatives demand unbiased, integrated and regularly updated biodiversity and ecosystem service data. However, efforts to monitor biodiversity are spatially and temporally fragmented, taxonomically biased, and lack integration in Europe. EuropaBON aims to bridge this gap by designing an EU-wide framework for monitoring biodiversity and ecosystem services. EuropaBON harnesses the power of modelling essential variables to integrate different reporting streams, data sources, and monitoring schemes. These essential variables provide consistent knowledge about multiple dimensions of biodiversity change across space and time. They can then be analyzed and synthesized to support decision-making at different spatial scales, from the sub-national to the European scale, through the production of indicators and scenarios. To develop essential biodiversity and ecosystem variables workflows that are policy relevant, EuropaBON is built around stakeholder engagement and knowledge exchange (WP2). EuropaBON will work with stakeholders to identify user and policy needs for biodiversity monitoring and investigate the feasibility of setting up a center to coordinate monitoring activities across Europe (WP2). Together with stakeholders, EuropaBON will assess current monitoring efforts to identify gaps, data and workflow bottlenecks, and analyse cost-effectiveness of different schemes (WP3). This will be used to co-design improved monitoring schemes using novel technologies to become more representative temporally, spatially and taxonomically, delivering multiple benefits to users and society (WP4). Finally, EuropaBON will demonstrate in a set of showcases how workflows tailored to the Birds Directive, Habitats Directive, Water Framework Directive, Climate and Restoration Policy, and the Bioeconomy Strategy, can be implemented (WP5).

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