Biodiversa+

The Regional Government of the Azores, through the Regional Fund for Science and Technology (FRCT), integrates Biodiversa+ consortium with two main roles: 

• Promotion of the internationalization of Scientific and Technological System of the Azores as a Funding agency for regional scientific teams, that integrate projects approved within the joint calls; 
• Participation in harmonized European activities schemes, with the collaboration of the competent Regional authorities to help improve, boost or implement monitoring of biodiversity and ecosystem services policies. 

 The participation of the FRCT in this Partnership facilitates the implementation of the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 in the Autonomous Region of the Azores (RAA), through the transmission and sharing of information, tools and evidence to the regional entities responsible for monitoring and reporting biodiversity in the regional context, promoting continuous collaboration at different levels and scales. By financing regional teams in research and innovation (R&I) projects, within the scope of Biodiversa+ calls, FRCT intends to consolidate the scientific and technological potential of the Azores and promoting transregional and international synergies leveraging the Azores potential, attracting external and reinforcing the economic axis based on R&I. 

Within the Partnership Activity 2 – Promote and support transnational biodiversity monitoring, FRCT implements a Biodiversity Monitoring Pilot in the Azores, to address priority topics related with species invasive alien species monitoring, soil biodiversity, biodiversity governance, data interoperability and standards. The Pilot implementation of the in the RAA is supported by the Regional Secretariat for the Environment and Climate Change, through direct collaboration with the Regional Directorate for the Environment and Climate Change.