Up to €90,000 Regional biodiversity data mobilization

Regional biodiversity data mobilization grants aim to strengthen collaborations between institutions within sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean or the Pacific to enhance knowledge-sharing, including capacity building and skills mobility, and to increase the availability and use of open biodiversity data addressing clearly identified regional priorities.

Purpose: Strengthen regional collaborations to mobilize biodiversity data for policy, research, and conservation. Focus areas:

• Building and expanding regional data‑sharing networks
• Mobilizing biodiversity data (digitization, publishing, validation)
• Supporting integration of biodiversity data into research and policymaking

Funding:

• Up to €90,000 per project
• Eligible costs: staff time, travel, workshops, IT services/equipment (up to €9,000)
• Ineligible costs: overhead, fieldwork, new data collection, laboratory research

• Applicant must be a legal entity in Sub‑Saharan Africa, Latin America & Caribbean, or Pacific
• Must include partner institutions from at least two eligible countries in the same region
• Must commit at least 25% co‑funding (cash or in‑kind)
• Must include activities in all three focus areas (networks, data mobilization, policy integration)
• Must demonstrate prior experience in biodiversity data mobilization