Links
- Biodiversity Information System for Europe
- The Biodiversity Information System for Europe (BISE) is a single entry point for data and information on biodiversity in the EU. Bringing together facts and figures on biodiversity and ecosystem services, it links to related policies, environmental data centres, assessments and research findings from various sources. It is being developed to strengthen the knowledge base and support decision-making on biodiversity.
- Biodiversity-related EU projects (listed on BIOTA)
- This website lists a large number of current and completed projects concerning biodiversity
- EC strategy to protect biodiversity and ecosystem services
- The EU Biodiversity strategy ('Our life insurance, our natural capital: an EU biodiversity strategy to 2020')
- Horizon 2020
- Horizon 2020 is the financial instrument implementing the 'Innovation Union', a Europe 2020 flagship initiative aimed at securing Europe's global competitiveness. Running from 2014 to 2020 with an €80 billion budget, the EU’s new programme for research and innovation is part of the drive to create new growth and jobs in Europe. It is the successor to FP7.
- INTERACT
- EU project with a main objective to build capacity for identifying, understanding, predicting and responding to diverse environmental changes throughout the wide environmental and land-use envelopes of the Arctic
- International Platform on Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services
- IPBES will be an interface between the scientific community and policy makers that aims to build capacity for and strengthen the use of science in policy making.
- LTER-Europe
- A European network consisting of mainly national Long-Term Ecosystem Research and Monitoring (LTER) networks covering terrestrial and freshwater environments. LTER also includes a growing number of larger Long-Term Socio-Ecological Research (LTSER) platforms in which interdisciplinary ecosystem research is carried out. ALTER-Net was intrumental in establishing this pan-European LTER network in Europe.
- PEER
- PEER (Partnership for European Environmental Research) is a partnership of seven of the largest European environmental centres founded in 2001 with the aim of combining forces to follow a joint strategy in environmental sciences and to enhance research on ecological sustainability. Six of the seven PEER partners are also members of ALTER-Net.
- Research participant portal
- Latest information on EU research funding calls
- Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development
ALTER-Net brings together 26 leading institutes from 18 European countries