The BiodivERsA partners are pleased to have recently joined BES-net in light of a wider approach to collaborate in support of international research and policy-making on biodiversity. BiodivERsA is a partnership of European programmers and funders of research on biodiversity and Nature-based Solutions in Europe. Building on a shared vision and strategy, BiodivERsA partners program joint calls for transdisciplinary research advancing science, society and policy. The partnership also develops a great diversity of activities ranging from research mapping and programming, to stakeholder engagement, dissemination of projects’ outputs and knowledge brokerage.

BiodivERsA has collaborated with IPBES on several levels, with MEP members joining the Partnership’s Advisory Board, through contributions to the BiodivERsA Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda, and in proactively contributing knowledge to on-going IPBES assessments by means of syntheses and policy briefs.

Furthermore, BiodivERsA partners have launched in October 2017 an international call for research proposals on biodiversity scenarios jointly with the Belmont Forum and the European Commission. This joint action was designed based on a number of identified gaps and priorities, including those pinpointed throughout the IPBES methodological assessment on the topic and will support research that is expected to generate additional new knowledge useful in the IPBES and BES-Net context.