Developing the Science Service for European Research and Biodiversity Policymaking
Why Bioagora?
Despite improved understanding of the need for science to inform biodiversity related policy making and the rich field of science-policy interfaces (SPIs), there remains a gap in ensuring that all decision makers across all societal sectors have direct access to research-based knowledge when planning, budgeting and deciding on actions that have an impact on local, national, EU and global biodiversity.
BioAgora will develop a Science Service for Biodiversity, which responds to the present gaps and future needs in SPIs and provides the science pillar of the EU’s Knowledge Centre for Biodiversity (KCBD).
About the project
The overall aim of BioAgora is to connect research results to the needs of environmental policy in a targeted dialogue between science, other knowledge holders and policy actors.
It will channel the entire landscape of EU biodiversity science from monitoring to meta-analyses and communicate this knowledge through two-way platforms to EU institutions and the broader community. BioAgora will go beyond the state of the art by co-creating new ways of bridging the gap between science, practice and policy and use this as a basis for the Science Service for Biodiversity’s development for future needs.
How will the project achieve its goals? BioAgora partners will:
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Develop the Science Service for Biodiversity’s governance structure and systems model by testing it in real life and iteratively improving it over the project’s duration resulting in a fully functional service
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Design demonstration cases across EU Member States that ratchet up the implementation of biodiversity commitments as planned in the EU’s Biodiversity Strategy for 2030
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Analyse the existing landscape of Science-Policy Interfaces, assess their policy tools and the current biodiversity knowledge held in Europe
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Provide tailored pathways on how better orchestrate science-policy interactions to support Biodiversity Strategy for 2030
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Provide capacity building to empower the EU community of decision-makers and knowledge providers in bringing transformative change for biodiversity
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Engage with a broad range of actors, including policymakers, scientists, businesses, cand citizens
The BioAgora project will create an ‘agora’, or gathering place, where existing and future actors can each bring in their expertise, experience and products to share and exchange to support the ratcheting up of biodiversity action and boost the sustainability transformation in the EU.
BioAgora Launch
The launching event of BioAgora was held adjacent to the kick-off meeting in Helsinki in November 2022. Learn more about the project and discover BioAgora's plans for creating the Science Service for Biodiversity:
Additional information
Responsible coordinator:
Kati Vierikko
Group Manager, Senior Research Scientist
kati.vierikko@syke.fi
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