Co-organised by Biodiversa+, GBIF ECA, MARCO-BOLO, BioAgora and Alliance for Nature, this event will bring together Europe’s biodiversity monitoring community, from researchers and monitoring professionals to policymakers, the private sector and students.

The conference will revolve around 9 themes:

• Terrestrial monitoring: land surveillance in focus
• Marine monitoring: observing ocean ecosystems
• Freshwater monitoring: spotlight on rivers, lakes and wetlands
• Data management and infrastructures for monitoring: frameworks for handling, storing and disseminating information
• Mass monitoring: large-scale methods and technologies for monitoring
• Public policy and funding for monitoring: intricacies of resource oversight and allocation
• Monitoring governance: administrative solutions for improving existing structures
• Monitoring and the private sector: cooperation with and for non-state-owned enterprises
• Capacity-building in monitoring: training, tools and knowledge development