Biodiversa+

This call aims to support transnational research projects (3-years duration) addressing one or more of the three (non-exclusive) themes below:

• Theme 1 – Innovation and harmonization of methods and tools for collection and management of biodiversity monitoring data.
• Theme 2 – Addressing knowledge gaps on biodiversity status, dynamics, and trends to reverse biodiversity loss.
• Theme 3 – Making use of available biodiversity monitoring data.

Projects combining aspects from several themes are encouraged. The projects funded by this call should allow us to better characterize, understand and report on the state and trends of biodiversity.

The call covers all environments, i.e. terrestrial, freshwater and marine in Europe and beyond.

Research teams will be invited to form transnational research consortia with eligible research partners from minimum 3 different countries participating in the call and requesting support from at least three different Funding Organisations (including minimum two different EU Member States or EU Associated Countries).

List of Participating Countries in Horizon Europe (pdf, europa.eu)

Proposals have to be exclusively written in English.

The full up-to-date list of participating funding organisation joining this Call as well as their reserved budgets is available on the Biodiversa+ website.

Please note that each research Partner in a project must comply with the eligibility criteria and rules of its national/regional funding organisation.

In this call, the Swedish funding is of both the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency and the Swedish Space Agency.

For Swedish applicants,  the following nation-specific rules apply:

• Swedish applicants list both the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency and the Swedish Space Agency as their financier.
• In this call, Swedish applicants can apply for a maximum of SEK 2,250,000 (€225,000) per project.
• A partner can be a researcher, an institution, a laboratory, a department of an institution. 
• A Swedish applicant must include at least one work package on earth observation applications.

A two-step process will apply, with a mandatory submission of pre-proposals at the first step and submission of full proposals at the second step, via an Electronic Proposal Submission System (EPSS). The link to the EPSS will be available soon on the Biodiversa+ website:

Participating funding organisations (biodiversa.org)

Launch of the call: Thursday 08 September 2022

Deadline for pre-proposals submission (mandatory): Wednesday 09 November 2022, 15:00 CET (local time in Brussels).

Deadline for full-proposals submission: Wednesday 05 April 2023, 15:00 CEST (local time in Brussels).

Further information at Biodiversa+ website, see Call documents

Senior research officer
Hannah Östergård Roswall
Phone: 010-698 16 81
hannah.ostergard.roswall@naturvardsverket.se

Senior research officer
Neda Farahbakhshazad
Phone: 010-698 12 50
neda.farahba@naturvardsverket.se

At the Swedish National Space Agency
Tobias Edman
tobias.edman@snsa.se