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.

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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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BiCIKL project

The Horizon 2020 project Bi odiversity C ommunity I ntegrated K nowledge L ibrary ( BiCIKL ) builds a new European community of key research infrastructures , researchers, citizen scientists and other stakeholders in biodiversity and life sciences.
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Other International
Projects

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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…
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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…
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Completed
projects

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MOBILISE COST Action

A COST Action ‘MOBILISE’ was initiated to strengthen the network of European stakeholders in support of bio- and geodiversity research.
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DiSSCo

The Distributed System of Scientific Collections (DiSSCo) is a new world-class Research Infrastructure (RI) for Natural Science Collections. The DiSSCo RI aims to create a new business model for one European collection that digitally unifies all European…
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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.
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ICEDIG

The ICEDIG project (Innovation and consolidation for large scale digitisation of natural heritage), which concluded in March 2020, was the first step to help tackle the complex challenge of building DiSSCo. It devised the structural pillars of DiSSCo by…
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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…
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