Collaborations and Partnerships

In February 2023, Biodiversa+ and Alternet officially became key collaborators. The two initiatives have joined forces to strengthen the European science-policy-society interface and to foster capacity building for researchers from the biodiversity field. 

Biodiversa+, the European Biodiversity Partnership supports excellent research on biodiversity with an impact for society and policy, ​and promotes the harmonisation of biodiversity monitoring schemes across Europe. Gathering major national research programmers, and funders and environmental policy actors from Europe and beyond and being co-funded by the European Commission, Biodiversa+is part of the EU Biodiversity Strategy 2030, and contributes to the ambition that “by 2030, nature in Europe is back on a path of recovery, and that by 2050 people are living in harmony with Nature.”

Specifically, Biodiversa+ and Alternet collaborate on the development and organisation of the Alternet Summer Schools in Peyresq, France. Biodiversa+ supports the summer schools by financially providing for the general costs and supporting the participation of early career researchers from Biodiversa+ projects, and by co-building the content and identification of speakers. As key collaborators, Biodiversa+ and Alternet will also support the provision and/or promotion of respective training and guides for capacity building related to transdisciplinary research and innovation and science-society-policy interfacing. They also support the mobilisation of the scientific community on these topics in respective activities.

Biodiversa+ and Alternet teams are closely working together to implement this key collaboration.