Aug 14, 2025

New BiodivERsA Call 2025 - “Restoration of ecosystem functioning, integrity, and connectivity”!

Biodiversa+ will launch a new transnational joint research call on "Restoration of ecosystem functioning, integrity, and connectivity" (BiodivConnect).

This call focuses on funding innovative research to be integrated into nature restoration practices to create interconnected and well-functioning ecosystems and habitats. Particular attention will be paid to the long-term sustainability and future-proofing of restoration actions at local, regional, transboundary and global scales, including their evaluation.

Projects proposed under this call may focus on a variety of aspects , such as: different categories of indicators; multiple scales of restoration expansion; ecological, socio-economic and socio-cultural dimensions; and/or different levels of environmental regulations and policies that require alignment.

To adequately address the key challenges of restoration, it is essential to promote knowledge exchange and capacity building across disciplines and societal sectors, and to recognize, value and integrate diverse forms of knowledge. This call is structured around three main themes, some of which overlap. Project proposals may address one or more of these main themes:

Theme 1: Setting Recovery Goals and Measuring Success

This theme addresses the need for coherent and actionable restoration goals and measures of success related to ecosystem functioning, integrity and connectivity. Projects are expected to address changing reference values and the integration of ecological, cultural and social contexts, using target or reference-based approaches.

Topic 2: Transferability and scalability of restoration measures

This theme addresses the need to better understand the opportunities and methods for meaningful and effective scalability and transferability of nature restoration interventions. There are many examples of successful local restoration actions around the world, but the scale of the biodiversity crisis requires advances in approaches and processes to replicate successful actions in different socio-economic and ecological contexts.

Theme 3: Resilience and sustainability of restoration measures

This theme addresses the need for long-term sustainability of restored species, habitats and ecosystems, including resilience to climate change and other pressures. Given future ecological and societal changes, it will not be possible to rely solely on historical and current datasets and models to predict likely pathways to successful restoration. There is also a need for advanced predictive modeling and forward-looking strategic foresight based on policy insights, as well as the development of entirely new approaches to restoration, experimental approaches with high risk tolerance and/or open-ended restoration interventions such as renaturation.

Timeline and funding conditions:

September 09, 2025 - Publication Call
September 11 - Info webinar
Beginning of November 2025 - Submission of project outline
Beginning of April 2026 - Submission of full application
Funding is available for collaborative projects with at least 3 partners from 3 participating countries
At least 2 partners must come from EU member states or EU associated countries

Participating countries:

Austria, Belgium (Wallonia-Brussels, Flanders), Brazil, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Faroe Islands, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Netherlands, Tunisia and Turkey

Further information

https://www.biodiversa.eu/research-funding/upcoming-calls/

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