Biodiversity

Biodiversa+ launches a new research call on ecosystem restoration

Published

9 months ago

September 12, 2025

The BiodivConnect call, launched on 9 September, supports innovative research on the restoration of ecosystem functioning, integrity and connectivity. The funded research projects will produce actionable knowledge to support nature restoration and reverse biodiversity decline and ecosystem degradation.

This call will benefit the implementation of the EU Nature Restoration Law, the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 and the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.

With a total budget of around EUR 40 million, this call will address restoration efforts for biodiversity in all types of ecosystems and habitats, in all regions of the world, and will support high-quality research projects with holistic, systemic, and integrated approaches.

The call covers three important topics that represent key challenges in nature restoration

setting restoration targets and measuring success
transferability and scaling of nature restoration efforts
resilience and sustainability of restoration efforts

Successful proposals must demonstrate significant added value at transnational level and are expected to be interdisciplinary and ideally also transdisciplinary, involving non-academic stakeholders to co-produce new knowledge relevant for society.

To be eligible for funding, transnational research consortia will have to include eligible partners from at least three different countries financially participating in the call (including from at least two EU member states or EU Associated Countries).

The complete announcement and call documents, including full eligibility and evaluation criteria, are available on the Biodiversa+ website. The Partnership also organizes a general information webinar for interested researchers on 11 September 2025.

What is Biodiversa+?

Biodiversa+ is the European co-funded biodiversity partnership supporting excellent research on biodiversity with an impact for policy and society. It was jointly developed by BiodivERsA and the European Commission and was officially launched on 1 October 2021. Biodiversa+ is part of the European Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 that aims to put Europe’s biodiversity on a path to recovery by 2030. The Partnership plans to launch six co-funded joint research calls over the seven years of its implementation with an estimated budget of around €250 million.

European Partnerships such as Biodiversa+ bring the European Commission and private and/or public partners together to address some of Europe’s most pressing challenges through concerted research and innovation initiatives. They are a key implementation tool of Horizon Europe, and contribute significantly to achieving the EU’s political priorities. Biodiversa+ currently gathers 83 research programmers and funders and environmental policy actors from 41 European and associated countries, and aims to connect science, policy and practice for transformative change.