Currentinternational projects
Our researchers play various roles in many international projects, working on biodiversity data, lava geology, coral reef biology and many more subjects.
ENVRI FAIR project
The ENVRI Community is a group of Environmental Research Infrastructures (ENVRI), projects, networks and other diverse stakeholders aiming to collaborate across traditional disciplines. The underlying principle is that studying today’s complex earth system…
SYNTHESYS+
The SYNTHESYS+ project is the final iteration of the SYNTHESYS programme, which aims to increase the access to physical and digital specimens in European natural history collections.
4D-REEF Research Programme
Coral reefs are having a hard time. Reefs in the Coral Triangle stand out for their species richness, yet they are in close proximity to areas with high human population densities. Ongoing anthropogenic environmental changes in the sea, on land and in the…
EPIC Evolution of planktonic gastropod calcification
Holoplanktonic gastropods are among the most vulnerable calcifiers to ocean acidification. They live in the open ocean and build thin and transparent shells of aragonite, a polymorph of calcium carbonate. In the project EPIC we study the biomineralization…
MOST project
In MOST we investigate how schools and their immediate environment (family/families, neighbors, businesses, etc.) can collaborate on sustainability. The core of the project is the integration of diverse participants: science and research, formal and non…
BiCIKL project
The Horizon 2020 project Biodiversity Community Integrated Knowledge Library (BiCIKL) builds a new European community of key research infrastructures, researchers, citizen scientists and other stakeholders in biodiversity and life sciences.
Completedinternational projects
Rise and demise of biodiversity in the Pontocaspian region
Combining climate, geology and biology to unravel drivers of lake basin and biotic evolution of the unique Pontocaspian region to understand the current biodiversity crisis. Lakes and rivers in the Caspian-Black Sea region host unique species that have…
Plant.ID Molecular Identification of Plants
Plants are essential for many aspects of our daily lives as they provide food, medicines, and construction materials. However, plants can also cause harm. Think of poisonous plants, pollen allergies, adulterants in herbal medicines, or invasive species…