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SOCIETY & POLICY
Since its beginnings, BiodivERsA has worked to promote high-level research on biodiversity, ecosystem services and nature-based solutions, advancing knowledge to tackle key societal issues. From the design and the implementation of joint calls for research, to building capacities for transdisciplinary research and supporting knowledge brokerage on research results, BiodivERsA partners have developed key activities to integrate their joint research programming and funding efforts with society and policy.
The network has adopted a systemic approach to ensure that science and society/policy are coherently integrated at each stage of the research development process. The main steps of funding research and the corresponding types of science-policy/society interfacing activities are synthesised in figure 1 below:
Fig. 1: Approach and methodology used to engage stakeholders and promote the science-policy and science-society interfacing in BiodivERsA3 throughout the research (development) process (after Mauser et al. 2013).
Co-design of research programmes and strategies
The co-design of research programmes in BiodivERsA is achieved through the involvement of stakeholders and policy-makers in the network’s mapping and foresight activities to identify themes to be supported, as well as in the preparation of a shared Strategic Research and Innovation Agendas which was co-developed with the BiodivERsA Advisory Board and reviewed through open consultations.
- BiodivERsA Advisory Board
- BiodivERsA Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (2017-2020)
- Co-development of a potential co-funded European Partnership on Biodiversity under Horizon Europe
Supporting the co-production of knowledge
BiodivERsA partners address societal and policy relevance of the research they support in the design of research programmes, but also in their implementation by supporting the co-production of knowledge. BiodivERsA has developed specific criteria and a dedicated process to evaluate the potential societal and policy impact of project proposals received within its joint calls, as well as several guidance documents to help researchers understand these criteria and related expectations in BiodivERsA calls and build capacities to conduct transdisciplinary research at the science-society/policy interface.
- BiodivERsA Stakeholder Engagement Handbook
- BiodivERsA Guide on Policy Relevance
- BiodivERsA Citizen Science Toolkit
- BiodivScen Handbook on the use of biodiversity scenarios for decision-making
Knowledge brokerage and dissemination
Finally, BiodivERsA also works with selected projects beyond their life span by offering knowledge brokerage activities with additional funding. Following the evaluation of outcomes and impacts of projects, BiodivERsA can develop and disseminate policy briefs based on project results, or support activities to promote academic or societally relevant outputs of funded projects.
- BiodivERsA Prize for Excellence and Impact
- BiodivERsA Policy Briefs
- Outputs of BiodivERsA funded projects
- Outputs of NetBIOME funded projects
- Knowledge and Technology Transfer in European ORs and OCTs