The stakeholder workshop is designed to facilitate an international professional exchange on the integration of biodiversity data. The research team of project ENABLElocal will first provide insights into local examples from case studies in Sweden, Germany, and the Czech Republic. In addition, a handbook for practitioners will be presented, containing general guidance on tools and instruments, as well as approaches for better integrating biodiversity data into local decision-making processes in nature conservation and land use. In interactive discussion groups, participants will also have the opportunity to exchange ideas across sectors and organizational levels.

ENABLElocal is a joint transdisciplinary project of the Institute for Social-Ecological Research (ISOE) in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, the Global Change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences (Czech Globe), and the Department of Biology at Lund University, Sweden. To ensure that decisions regarding nature and species conservation can be made based on reliable data, the research team is focusing on establishing the necessary data flows between local stakeholders and the data infrastructures of national, European, and global biodiversity monitoring initiatives. With the goal of breaking down existing “data silos,” the project promotes the exchange of knowledge between local practitioners and academia.