{"projectrec":{"ProID":2578,"StandardTitle":"ERA-Net in biodiversity sciences","OrigTitle":null,"Acronym":"BIODIVERSA","AbstractEnglish":"BiodivERsA is an ERA Net involving 19 major research funding agencies from 15 countries in Europe with significant research funding in the field of terrestrial, freshwater and marine biodiversity. Most ERA-Net members are represented in other fora which discuss and recommend requirements for European biodiversity research: including the Convention for Biological Diversity (CBD-SBSTTA), Diversitas, the European Platform for Biodiversity Research Strategy (EPBRS) and the European Science Foundation (ESF). Recommendations from these fora are often made without a formal mechanism to ensure connection with the strategies, priorities and budgets of national research funding agencies.\r\n\r\nThe aim of BiodivERsA is to contribute to setting up such a mechanism, and its objective for the period 2004-2008 is to achieve an efficient trans-national research co-operation in the field of biodiversity research funding. With the aim of contributing to the implementation of the EU Biodiversity Strategy, BiodivERsA will allow the funding agencies to collate existing activities, compare future strategies and recommendations of consultative bodies, and systematically explore opportunities for future collaboration.\r\n\r\nBiodivERsA will also contribute to better coherence and increased synergies between the national programmes of cooperation with developing countries in the field of biodiversity research funding.\r\n\r\nIn order to achieve this, BiodivERsA will proceed through seven stages:\r\n