EPBRS

European Platform for Biodiversity Research Strategy (EPBRS) is an European forum for scientists and policy makers to improve the effectiveness and relevance of European biodiversity research, to contribute to European Research Area (ERA) for Biodiversity, to promote the dissemination of current best practices and information regarding the scientific understanding of biodiversity conservation, and to ensure that research contributes to halting the loss of biodiversity by 2010, as it is agreed in the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). It is an informal platform to exchange views and ideas to develop a biodiversity research strategy for Europe.

The bi-annual EPBRS meetings have been systematically linked to the EU presidency since 1999:

1. Finland: Ivalo,  21-23 11 1999, conference “Northern Dimension to Biodiversity, from Arctic to Boreal Ecosystems”.

2. Portugal: Ponta del Gada, 14-16 05 2000, conference “Islands and Archipelagos: European biodiversity issues seen from the Atlantic” that has adopted a declaration

3. France: Montpellier, 04-06 12 2000, conference “Biodiversity research related to the Biology of Invasions” that has adopted a declaration.

4. Sweden: Sigtuna, 10-12 06 2001, conference “Biodiversity of Water and Forest - Science in support of the Ecosystem Approach” that has adopted a declaration and other documents.

5. Belgium: Brussels, 02-04 12 2001, conference “Scientific tools for biodiversity conservation: monitoring, modelling and experiments” that has adopted a declaration and other documents.

6. Spain: Almeria, 11-13 05 2002, conference “European heritage under threat: Biodiversity in Mediterranean ecosystems” that has adopted a declaration and other documents.

7. Denmark: Silkeborg, 04-06 10 2002, conference “Auditing the Ark: Science based monitoring of Biodiversity” that has adopted a declaration and other documents.

8. Greece: Mythimna, 23-26 05 2003, conference “Biotic Resources in a Changing World: Science for Better Governance” that has adopted a declaration and other documents.

9. Poland: Bialovieza, 05-08 07 2003, conference “Biodiversity research strategy and structure in the Acceding and Candidate Countries” that has adopted a declaration and other documents.

10. Italy: Florence, 21-24 11 2003, conference “Genetic Biodiversity in Natural, Agricultural and Other Economically Used Systems: Measurement, Understanding and Management” that has adopted a declaration and other documents.

11. Ireland: Killarney, 21-24 05 2004, conference “Sustaining Livelihoods and Biodiversity- attaining the 2010 target in the European Biodiversity Strategy” that has adopted a declaration and other documents. Recommendations of all previous EPBRS meetings and other important documents available on the website of Irish meeting.

12. The Netherlands: Amsterdam, 10-13 12 2004, conference “Biodiversity research that matters!” that has prepared several documents.

13. Hungary: Budapest, 31 March - 4 April 2005, conference “Landscape scale biodiversity assessment, the problem of scaling” that has adopted an Action plan for biodiversity research and recommendations.

14. Belgium: Brussels, 18 April 2005, "Workshop on Innovative Research for Biodiversity Data Aquisition & Assessment" that has adopted recommendations.