Presentation of the Programme
BiodivERsA (now Biodiversa+) is a co-funded European biodiversity partnership supporting state-of-the art research on biodiversity and its resulting impacts on both policy and society. Created by both BiodivERsA and the EC (DG Environment alongside DG Research & Innovation), the partnership was officially launched in October 2021.
The goal of the partnership is to connect science, policy, and practice to foster positive transformative change. Current, there are 74 research programmes within the partnership, stemming from funders and environmental policy stakeholders from 36 countries from the EU and beyond, working on 5 main objectives:
- Planning and supporting both innovation and research on biodiversity through the means of a common strategy, annual research project calls, and capacity building exercises;
- Creating a network of harmonised schemes with the goal of improving biodiversity and ecosystem services monitoring throughout Europe;
- Contributing to the knowledge and know-how of putting nature-based solutions into place, as well as increase the value of biodiversity in the private sector;
- Ensuring efficient, scientifically accurate support for policy-making and decision-making processes and implementation across Europe;
- Strengthening the impact and relevance that transdisciplinary pan-European research has on biodiversity in a European and global context.
The BiodivClim Call
The MICROSERVICES project is an answer to the BiodivERsA call on “Biodiversity and Climate Change” (BiodivClim) for 2019-2020, covering four non-exclusive themes:
- The consequences of climate change on biodiversity and nature’s contribution to people
- Climate-biodiversity feedback processes
- Potential of nature-based solutions for mitigating and adapting to climate change
- Synergies and tradeoffs between policies on biodiversity, climate and other relevant sectors, and the role of agents of change.
Table of shortlisted BiodivClim projects
| Project | Description | Countries* |
|---|---|---|
| ACORN | Identifying seed sources for highly adaptable oak forests in a changing climate | AT, CH, DE, GR, TR |
| ASICS | ASsessing and mitigating the effects of climate change and biological Invasions on the spatial redistribution of biodiversity in Cold environmentS. | FR, AT, BE, CZ, ES, DK, NO, SA |
| BaltVib | Pathogenic Vibrio bacteria in the current and future Baltic Sea waters: mitigating the problem | DE, EE, DK, FI, LT, PL, SE |
| BIOFAIR | BIOdiversity of soils and FArming Innovations for improved Resilience in European wheat agrosystems | BE, CH, DE, ES, FR |
| CLAMBIO | Assessing the effects of past and future climate change on Amazonian biodiversity. | FI, BR, DE, UK |
| EASMO | EAStern Tropical Pacific reef fish on the MOve: biodiversity reorganisation and societal consequences. | DE, AU, CO, CR, NO, PT, SE, UK, US |
| EPICC | Environmental Policy Instruments across Commodity Chains: Comparing multi-level governance for Biodiversity Protection and Climate Action in Brazil, Colombia, and Indonesia. | BE, DE, BR, ID, NO, SE |
| FeedBaCks | Feedbacks between Biodiversity and Climate. | CH, CZ, DE, FR, SE |
| FUNPOTENTIAL | Potential of functional diversity for increasing the disturbance resiliency of forests and forest-based socio-ecological systems. | FI, DE, FR |
| FutureArcticLives | Future Arctic livelihoods and biodiversity in a changing climate. | DK, NO, SE |
| GenClim | Biodiversity on the run: evolutionary and socio-economic consequences of shifting distribution ranges in commercially exploited marine fishes. | DK, DE, PT, SA |
| GRADCATCH | Using natural environmental GRADients to decipher the adaptation of soil microbial Communities to climATe CHange. | DK, CH, ES, US, SA |
| MICROSERVICES | Predicting climate change impacts on the crop microbiome and cascading effects on ecosystem services delivery in agroecosystems | CH, BE, ES, FR, GE, GR |
| MixForChange | Mixed Forest plantations for climate Change mitigation and adaptation. | FR, AT, BE, BR, CA, DE, IT, SE |
| NAPERDIV | Nature-based perennial grain cropping as a model to safeguard functional biodiversity towards future-proof agriculture. | DE, AT, BE, FR, PL, RO, SE |
| NordSalt | Climate Change Impacts and Biodiversity Interactions in Nordic Salt Marshes. | DK, DE, FI, SE, NO |
| PlantCline | Adapting Plant Genetic Diversity to climate change along a continental latitudinal gradient. | SE, BE, ES, FI |
| PRINCESS | Peatland Rewetting In Nitrogen-Contaminated Environments: Synergies and trade-offs between biodiversity, climate, water quality and Society. | DE, AT, BE, FI, PL, NO |
| RangeX | Mechanisms underlying the success and impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning of range-expanding species under climate change. | CH, CL, DE, DK, FR, NO, SA, SE |
| RESTORE | Innovative biotechnological strategies to improve tree drought tolerance and microbial diversity for forest restoration purposes: the application of plant associative microorganisms and nature-based materials. | BR, DE, FR |
| SUSTAIN-COCOA | Sustainable sourcing policies for biodiversity protection, climate mitigation, and improved livelihoods in the cocoa sector. | CH, AU, BE, CO, SE |