BioPlatform is a network of scientists and policy makers that aims at improving the effectiveness and relevance of European biodiversity research, fulfilling functions that provide significant components of a European Research Area.

Research on biodiversity is essential to help the European Union, EU Member States and the New Accession States to implement the Convention on Biological Diversity and several biodiversity related directives. There is a need for co-ordination between researchers working in this field, the policy-makers that need the research results and the organisations that fund research in this field. To attain this coordination, BioPlatform is supporting the activities of the existing “European Platform for Biodiversity Research Strategy” (EPBRS), an informal forum of scientists and policy makers representing the EU Member States and other European countries. The aims of EPBRS are to promote discussion of EU biodiversity research strategies and priorities, exchange of information on national biodiversity activities and the dissemination of current best practices and information regarding the scientific understanding of biodiversity conservation.  For this purpose Bioplatform has assisted the development of the EPBRS by supporting representatives of all the 32 countries that integrate the EU 5th Framework RTD programme, and by promoting the creation of national biodiversity platforms/networks and linking with them and with other European and international biodiversity organisations to promote a European Research Area for biodiversity.

To read previous BioPlatform e-conference contributions:

• "Actions for the 2010 biodiversity target in Europe: How does research contribute to halting biodiversity loss?" - 25th September- 13th October 2006
• "Climate Change and Biodiversity Conservation: Knowledge needed to support development of integrated adaptation strategies" - 29th August-16th September 2005
• "Landscape scale biodiversity assessment: the problem of scaling" - 7th- 23rd March 2005
• "Biodiversity Research that matters!" 8th-26th November 2004
• "Sustaining livelihoods and biodiversity- Attaining the 2010 target in the European Biodiversity Strategy"- 13th-30th April 2004
• "Genetic biodiversity in natural and agricultural systems: measurement, understanding and management"- 6th-31st October 2003
• " Biotic resources in a changing world: science for better governance"- 31st March- 23rd April 2003
• "Priorities in biodiversity conservation and research in the Acceding and Candidate Countries (ACC) and their integration in the European Research Area (ERA)"- 3rd-21st February 2003
• "Auditing the Ark- Science based monitoring of biodiversity"-  5th-20th September 2002
• "Scientific responses to threats in Mediterranean ecosystems: conservation, restoration and mitigation"- 15th-28th April 2002
• "Biodiversity conservation in theory and practice"- 5th-23rd November 2001

Main project outcomes include:

- the affirmation of EPBRS as an important forum for science and policy debate on Biodiversity at European level

- the establishment of 25 National Platforms for Biodiversity with different degrees of financial stability .

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