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EU-Funded #101181294 | Single Access Point (SAP) to high-throughput biodiversity monitoring, biodiversity data, and biodiversity analyses for better conservation across Europe

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Only 4 days left! ⏳ Do you work to protect and restore Europe's biodiversity sites? Take our 10-minute survey and help shape BMD’s Single Access Point. 🌿
👉 Take the survey: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#Natura2000 #EUBiodiversity #NatureRestoration
November 10, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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The IPBES monitoring assessment is open for external review until 7 January 2026. 📅
Participation from experts across all relevant disciplines and backgrounds is encouraged to ensure the highest scientific quality and policy relevance.
👉 Get involved: oppla.eu/monitoring-k...
November 10, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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💡 BMD was spotted at Pensoft Publishers’ booth during the International Conference on Natural Sciences and Biotechnology – KLIMENT’S DAYS 2025, held at the Faculty of Biology, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski.
📅 The event is taking place from 6 to 7 November in Sofia, Bulgaria.

@pensoft.net
November 6, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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💚This publication takes the next step by proposing how harmonisation can be implemented in practice. It introduces common minimum requirements for biodiversity monitoring protocols and a new framework based on expert-led Thematic Hubs. 🌿 @biodiversa.eu
📖Read here: www.biodiversa.eu/2025/10/10/s...
October 31, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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Share your views in the BMD survey on biodiversity monitoring and analysis needs. 💚 Your input will help shape BMD's Single Access Point and support conservation across Europe. 💡
📅 Complete it by 14 November: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
📖 Learn more: bmd-project.eu/news/new-sur...
October 28, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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💚 Only 1 week to go until our online user story workshop on 3 November, 14:00–16:00 (CET).
➡️ Contributions will support the development of BMD’s Single Access Point.
✍️ Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
🔎 Explore the upcoming BMD co-design opportunities: bmd-project.eu/news/upcomin...
October 27, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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📅 Under the theme of Leading Transformation Together, the fourth edition of the World Biodiversity Forum WBF will take place from 14 to 19 June 2026 in Davos, Switzerland.
👉 Submit your abstract by Tuesday, 18 November 2025.
🔎 Learn more: meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/WBF2026/sess...
October 27, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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💚 The session “Challenges and Solutions for High-Throughput Biodiversity Monitoring”, co-organised by BMD coordinator Niels Raes, explored innovations in monitoring using camera traps, eDNA, drones and AI, focusing on data management, standardisation, ethics and sequence data applications.
October 24, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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💚 Sharif Islam (@naturalis.bsky.social) spoke on why biodiversity projects need "data spaces".
👉 He presented the idea of data space in the BMD project: an extensible, modular infrastructure designed for integration.

@sharifx.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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Day 3 highlights from #LivingData2025 🌿
We started the day by attending the second part of the “Long Live Biodiversity Data: Knowledge Transfer and Continuity Across Research Projects” symposium.

@pensoft.net | @lifewatcheric.bsky.social | @naturalis.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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🎥 Final episode of #BMDexplained: Chris Ellis describes how BMD will engage stakeholders by giving access to biodiversity data, opportunities to contribute and benefit from shared datasets, and support through tailored tools, trainings, and collaboration.
🔗Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8x20...
October 23, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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📖 Robert Waterhouse (@sib.swiss) spoke during “Disentis Roadmap: A Decadal Roadmap for Liberating Global Biodiversity Knowledge from Literature”, presenting “From literature to biodiversity data: mining arthropod organismal and ecological traits with machine learning”.
October 23, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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👉 BMD partners Sharif Islam (@naturalis.bsky.social) and Mathias Dillen (Meise Botanic Garden) contributed to the session “Data model for global implementation of open Digital Specimen & the status of specimen digitization”.
October 23, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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BMD’s coordinator Niels Raes joined Christos Arvanitidis (@lifewatcheric.bsky.social) and Pensoft (@pensoft.net) to present how the Biodiversity Knowledge Hub ensures data continuity across infrastructures. Followed by Robert Waterhouse (@sib.swiss) on the ERGA community’s research legacy.
October 23, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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🌿 Highlights from Day 2 at #LivingData2025! BMD partners contributed to three inspiring sessions advancing open, FAIR, and connected biodiversity data.
October 23, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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Starting in one hour! 🔔
💚 Sharif Islam (@naturalis.bsky.social): “Building and Serving FAIR Terms and Vocabularies for open Digital Specimen”
💚 Mathias Dillen (Meise Botanic Garden): “MIDS in practice: Comparing specimen digitisation levels”
🔎 Learn more: bmd-project.eu/news/bmd-liv...
October 22, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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📅 #LivingData2025: At 2:00 PM in Ballroom B2: “Disentis Roadmap — liberating global biodiversity knowledge from literature.”
💚BMD partner Robert Waterhouse (@sib.swiss) will present “From literature to biodiversity data: mining arthropod traits with ML”.
🔎Learn more: bmd-project.eu/news/bmd-liv...
October 22, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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🔔 The first session of “Long Live Biodiversity Data: Knowledge Transfer and Continuity Across Research Projects” starts in less than two hours!
🔎 Follow the sessions BMD will contribute to: bmd-project.eu/news/bmd-liv...
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Day 1 at #LivingData2025 highlights!
Great to meet Niels Raes, the LifeWatchERIC team, and Tim Robertson (@gbif.org) at booth No. 9.
Kessy Abarenkov featured BMD in her presentation during the @b-cubed.eu workshop.

@lifewatcheric.bsky.social | @pensoft.net | @unitartupress.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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We’re at Living Data 2025! Make sure to stop by the Pensoft Publishers' (@pensoft.net) booth (Number 9) to learn more about our work.
🔎 Follow the sessions BMD will contribute to: bmd-project.eu/news/bmd-liv...
October 21, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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#LivingData2025 kicks off tomorrow! 💚 Follow along for updates, pictures, and highlights from the event.
🔎 Curious about the sessions BMD will be contributing to? Check them out here: bmd-project.eu/news/bmd-liv...
October 20, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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🎉 We’re excited to share our very first newsletter, featuring the latest project updates and key highlights from recent events.
👉 Read it here: preview.mailerlite.io/emails/webvi...
✉️ Subscribe to get our next issue delivered straight to your inbox: dashboard.mailerlite.com/forms/118442...
October 15, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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💡 This week in #BMDexplained: Petteri Vihervaara (Biodiversa+), Joana Beja (EMODnet), and Ronald Thenius (BioDiMoBot) share their perspectives on collaborating with the BMD project.
🔗 Watch here and subscribe to stay tuned for future videos: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDR7...
October 15, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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💚 If you are a Natura 2000 site manager or policymaker working to deliver the EU Nature Directives, we would like to know what you think about our Single Access Point mock-ups.
✅ Check out the 3 designs and vote for your preferred one here: bmd.lifewatch.eu
October 14, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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💚 BMD will host an online User Story Workshop on 3 November, 14:00–16:00 (CEST). ➡️ Contributions will support the development of BMD’s Single Access Point.
✍️ Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
🔎 Explore the upcoming BMD co-design opportunities: bmd-project.eu/news/upcomin...
October 13, 2025 at 3:01 PM