The Horizon Europe proposal aims to harmonise citizen science tools, data flows and collaboration to support biodiversity and ecosystem monitoring across Europe.
THRIVE is a project proposal responding to the call topic HORIZON-CL6-2025-01-BIODIV-02 – Strengthening the capacity of citizen science in biodiversity observation. If approved, the project will run for 36 months and will have the budget of approximately 4 million EUR. Coordinated by ECSA, THRIVE aims to deliver a systemic step change in citizen science (CS) for biodiversity and ecosystem observation towards enhanced integration of CS data into official biodiversity and ecosystem monitoring schemes in Europe. By harmonising tools and data flows, building capacity, engaging diverse communities, and embedding CS data into policy and governance, THRIVE will move beyond fragmented actions towards a coordinated, scalable, and policy-relevant approach.
CETAF Contributions:
CETAF will contribute to the project with a total of 10.5 Person Months, distributed over 6 different Work Packages, including the leading role in task ‘’Stakeholder Mapping’’. As the name suggests, this task will deal with the mapping of the biodiversity monitoring actor ecosystem in Europe towards strengthening the contribution of CS to the wider biodiversity monitoring initiatives and taxonomic communities across Europe. CETAF, with support from task contributors, will classify actors across the biodiversity data value chain, including data providers, data users , enablers, as well as community hubs and grassroots initiatives including representatives of THRIVE target groups.
CETAF will also have a minor role in several additional tasks, focusing on collaboration with relevant biodiversity-related initiatives, creating a sustainability roadmap for collaboration group legacy, mapping of teaching resources & trainings for creating capacity, co-developing workflow templates for policy-relevant European CS activities and co-designing a web-based match-making tool for policy-aligned data.
