Biodiversa+ launches a brand new analysis name on ecosystem restoration

September 14, 2025

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The BiodivConnect name, launched on 9 September, helps revolutionary analysis on the restoration of ecosystem functioning, integrity and connectivity. The funded analysis initiatives will produce actionable information to help nature restoration and reverse biodiversity decline and ecosystem degradation.

This name will profit the implementation of the EU Nature Restoration Law, the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 and the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.

With a complete finances of round EUR 40 million, this name will tackle restoration efforts for biodiversity in all sorts of ecosystems and habitats, in all areas of the world, and can help high-quality analysis initiatives with holistic, systemic, and built-in approaches.

The name covers three necessary subjects that signify key challenges in nature restoration

setting restoration targets and measuring success
transferability and scaling of nature restoration efforts
resilience and sustainability of restoration efforts

Successful proposals should show important added worth at transnational stage and are anticipated to be interdisciplinary and ideally additionally transdisciplinary, involving non-academic stakeholders to co-produce new information related for society.

To be eligible for funding, transnational analysis consortia should embody eligible companions from at the very least three completely different international locations financially taking part within the name (together with from at the very least two EU member states or EU Associated Countries).

The full announcement and name paperwork, together with full eligibility and analysis standards, can be found on the Biodiversa+ web site. The Partnership additionally organizes a normal data webinar for researchers on 11 September 2025.

What is Biodiversa+?

Biodiversa+ is the European co-funded biodiversity partnership supporting wonderful analysis on biodiversity with an influence for coverage and society. It was collectively developed by BiodivERsA and the European Commission and was formally launched on 1 October 2021. Biodiversa+ is a part of the European Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 that goals to place Europe’s biodiversity on a path to restoration by 2030. The Partnership plans to launch six co-funded joint analysis calls over the seven years of its implementation with an estimated finances of round €250 million.

European Partnerships similar to Biodiversa+ convey the European Commission and personal and/or public companions collectively to handle a few of Europe’s most urgent challenges via concerted analysis and innovation initiatives. They are a key implementation instrument of Horizon Europe, and contribute considerably to reaching the EU’s political priorities. Biodiversa+ at the moment gathers 83 analysis programmers and funders and environmental coverage actors from 41 European and related international locations, and goals to attach science, coverage and follow for transformative change.