Ongoing EU funded Projects
From biomonitoring to collection digitization and AI, and from lava geology to coral reef biology, our researchers work on a variety of models to study and understand biodiversity.
Integration of biodiversity monitoring data into the Digital Twin Ocean: DTO-BioFlow
Data on biodiversity comes from a variety of sources, including omics, optical identification, imaging, acoustics, and others. Although new technology (imaging, acoustics, DNA-based, satellite) enables biodiversity observations at previously unattainable…
Biodiversity Genomics Europe: BGE
BGE has the aim of accelerating and upscaling the use of genomic science in Europe. By bringing together two newly formed networks, BIOSCAN Europe (which focuses on DNA barcoding) and the European Reference Genome Atlas, ERGA (which focuses on genome…
Biodiversity Digital Twin: BioDT
The project's goal is to push the current boundaries of predictive understanding of biodiversity dynamics by developing a Biodiversity Digital Twin (BioDT) providing advanced modelling, simulation and prediction capabilities. By using already existing…
Transforming European Taxonomy through Training, Research, and Innovations: TETTRIs
TETTRIs, envisions a transformative change in the field of taxonomy to build and sustain taxonomic research capacity through increasing knowledge and developing systems. TETTRIs will achieve this aim by creating joint knowledge in reference collections…
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…
safeGUARDing biodivErsity aNd critical ecosystem services across sectors and scales: GUARDEN
GUARDEN’s main mission is to safeguard biodiversity and its contributions to people by bringing them at the forefront of policy and decision-making. This will be achieved through the development of user-oriented Decision Support Applications (DSAs), and…
Pollinator Academy An European learning platform about pollinators
There is an increasing urgency to protect pollinator species and their habitats. Bees, hoverflies and butterflies are crucial for food production and the functioning of ecosystems. In order to protect these crucial players in biodiversity, knowledge is…
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…
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.
Other International Projects
FAIR Digital Objects Forum: FDO F
Larger and larger amounts of data are being generated every day. The complexity of the data space is increasing exponentially. According to surveys, it is estimated that already, about 80 percent of the effort in data driven projects is spent on data…
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…
Completedprojects
Distributed System of Scientific Collections: DiSSCo Prepare
The DiSSCo RI aims to build one single European Natural Science Collection that digitally unifies all European natural science assets under common access, curation, policies and practices. DiSSCo is committed to do this while ensuring that all the data is…
MOBILISE COST Action
A COST Action ‘MOBILISE’ was initiated to strengthen the network of European stakeholders in support of bio- and geodiversity research.
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.
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…
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…