BioAgora - Bio Knowledge Agora: Developing the Science Service for European Research and Biodiversity Policymaking

尽管对科学为与生物多样性有关的决策提供信息的必要性以及丰富的科学-政策接口(SPI)的必要性有了更好的理解，但在确保所有社会部门的所有决策者在规划、预算编制和决定对地方、国家、欧盟和全球生物多样性产生影响的行动时能够直接获得基于研究的知识方面，仍然存在差距。BioAgora将开发一项科学服务，以应对SPI目前的差距和未来的需求，并为欧盟的生物多样性知识中心(KCBD)提供科学支柱。它将引导从监测到荟萃分析的整个欧盟生物多样性科学图景，并通过双向平台向欧盟机构和更广泛的社区传播这一知识。为了做到这一点，该项目将使用整个欧洲和其他地区正在进行的SPI过程作为示范案例，以解决为科学服务机构确定的最紧迫的需求。Bio-Agora将超越最先进的水平，共同创造弥合科学、实践和政策之间差距的新方法，并将其作为科学服务机构未来需求发展的基础。它将1)分析SPI的现有格局，评估其政策工具和欧洲目前掌握的生物多样性知识，2)与广泛的行为者--那些已经建立的和尚未完全融入该格局的行为者，以及SPI的用户--接触；3)通过在现实生活中对其进行测试，形成项目沿线的科学服务治理结构和系统模型；4)为欧盟决策者社区提供能力建设，使其有能力为生物多样性带来变革性的变化。Bio-Agora将提供功能强大和反应迅速的科学服务，能够提供一站式的适合用途的材料和工具，使决策者能够确保生物多样性和可持续发展转型

Despite improved understanding of the need for science to inform biodiversity related policy making and the rich field of science-policy interfaces (SPIs) there remains a gap in ensuring that all decision makers across all societal sectors have direct access to research-based knowledge when planning, budgeting and deciding on actions that have an impact on local, national, EU and global biodiversity. BioAgora will develop a Science Service, which responds to the present gaps and future needs in SPIs and provides the science pillar of the EU’s Knowledge Centre for Biodiversity (KCBD). It will channel the entire landscape of EU biodiversity science from monitoring to meta-analyses and communicate this knowledge through two-way platforms to EU institutions and the broader community. To do this, the project will use ongoing processes of SPIs across Europe and beyond, as demonstration cases, to address the most urgent needs identified for the Science Service. Bio-Agora will go beyond the state of the art by co-creating new ways of bridging the gap between science, practice and policy and use this as a basis for the Science Service’s development for future needs. It will 1) analyse the existing landscape of SPIs, assess their policy tools and the current biodiversity knowledge held in Europe, 2) engage with a broad range of actors –those already established ones and those not yet fully integrated within the landscape, as well as the users of SPIs; 3) form the Science Service governance structure and systems model along the projects span by testing it in real life; 4) provide capacity building for the EU community of decision makers to become empowered for transformative change for biodiversity. Bio-Agora will deliver a functional and responsive Science Service, capable of providing a one-stop-shop for fit-for-purpose materials and tools which enable decision makers to secure biodiversity and sustainability transformation