Through a participative process the objective is to mobilise stakeholders, their knowledge and resources for initiatives such as policy and priority analysis, multi-stakeholder dialogues, exchange of good practices, training and issuing of recommendations. The project's activities will contribute to:
• promote proper research and innovation governance;
• provide the basis for increased research efforts and excellence;
• strengthen links between science, policy and business;
• foster evidence-based policy and improving knowledge, good practice and technology transfer and the uptake of research results by biodiversity actors and stakeholders;
• improve the uptake by research of biodiversity actor's and stakeholder's knowledge, including traditional knowledge;
• develop innovative biodiversity management tools;
• improve visibility of ORs and OCTs, their specificities, their originality, and the uptake of their good practices and expertise;
• develop international cooperation and exporting EU expertise to third countries from ORs and OCTs acting as EU active frontiers;
• give a tropical dimension to Europe and conferring upon Europe a particular responsibility;
• establish a sustainable platform acting as an European focal point for tropical and subtropical biodiversity.
