At the strategic level, Fundación Biodiversidad is coordinating the elaboration of the Biodiversity and Science Strategy (EByC), a joint proposal of the Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge and the Ministry of Science and Innovation. The EByC (2023-2027) is being elaborated within the framework of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (PRTR), its main mission is to organize, within the framework and as an application of the Spanish Strategy and the Spanish Science, Technology and Innovation Plan (EECTI and PECTI), a system that favors the generation and transfer of knowledge on biodiversity and ecosystem services, of quality, inclusive and effective, that meets the needs of planning and management to achieve its protection, conservation, sustainable use, restoration and its economic and social value.
Secondly, Fundación Biodiversidad participates actively, together with the National Parks Autonomous Organization and the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training, in the implementation of the first Work Program of the Environmental Education Action Plan for Sustainability (PAEAS), which defines the strategic lines of environmental education in Spain for the next five years, offering a consensual work framework that reflects the strategic areas of action, as well as the objectives, main measures and specific actions to be developed by the different sectors and agents involved in Sustainable Environmental Education.
Within the framework of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, financed by the European Union – NextGenerationEU, the Fundación Biodiversidad manages two calls for grants to support research programs and projects in biodiversity management. The 2021 call for grants had an endowment of €2.5 million and the 2022 call for grants has a total endowment of €2 million.
Both focus on research projects that promote the application of scientific knowledge for decision-making in biodiversity planning and management.
The Biodiversity Foundation of the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge has a training and training plan in place for managers and other users of the marine Natura 2000 Network. This programme is based on the needs and priorities established in the Training Strategy, developed within the framework of the LIFE INTEMARES project, which is coordinated by the Biodiversity Foundation of the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge.
It is supported by the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (PRTR), financed by the European Union’s NextGeneration funds, as well as funds from the LIFE programme.
The European Biodiversity Partnership, Biodiversa+, which gives continuity to the ERANETS of the Horizon 2020 programme, is one of the key actions of the EU’s Biodiversity Strategy 2030 under the European Union’s (EU) framework programme for research and innovation (R+I) for the period 2021 -2027, Horizon Europe. Jointly developed by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (DG R&I) and the Directorate-General for the Environment (DG ENV), it aims to provide a global and multidisciplinary platform connecting local, national and European research and innovation programmes with a common goal: to return European biodiversity to the path of recovery by 2030. Biodiversa+ was formed in 2021 as action 81 of the EU’s 2030 Biodiversity Strategy and has the Biodiversity Foundation of the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge as one of the Spanish funding partners together with the State Research Agency (AEI) and the Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI). Biodiversa+ plans to publish, within its Work Package 1 (WP1), up to six calls for grants aimed at financing three-year projects, executed by at least three entities belonging to three European countries. The Biodiversity Foundation, with co-financing from the European Commission, will support the Spanish entities that are selected by the Partnership and that focus their actions on improving the marine environment. To date, two calls for grants have been published. The 2021 BiodivProtect campaign aims to support the protection of biodiversity and ecosystems on land and sea. You can consult all the information about this call and the 36 projects selected by the partnership on the Biodiversa+ website. For its part, the BiodivMon call, published in 2022, aims to improve transnational monitoring of biodiversity and ecosystem change for science and society. All the information about this call can be found at Biodiversa+.
