bitte übersetzten:    1. Introduction
The European Biodiversity Partnership, Biodiversa+, is planning to implement an ambitious 
program contributing by 2028 to the objective that “by 2030, nature in Europe is back on a path of 
recovery”, and “by 2050 people are living in harmony with Nature”. More particularly, the 
Partnership is putting Research & Innovation at the heart of the implementation of the European 
Union (EU) Biodiversity Strategy 2030 seeking to reverse biodiversity loss, by increasing the 
production of knowledge on biodiversity, reinforcing biodiversity monitoring across Europe, 
developing Nature-based Solutions, and providing science support to policy. Noticeably, 
Biodiversa+ supports research and innovation by launching annual thematic joint calls for 
research. Through its calls, Biodiversa+ supports excellent research that can demonstrate 
relevance for society and policy.
Biodiversa+ elaborates a Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) to present the longterm strategic vision of the European Biodiversity Partnership. Multi-annual Flagship Programmes, 
aligned with the SRIA, are launched (1-2 per year) tackling thematic issues through a wide array 
of activities, including joint calls, activities related to biodiversity monitoring across borders, 
activities to cover the research and innovation interface or the transfer of research results to 
reinforce the impact of the funded projects. 
The SRIA identifies three Topical Themes and associated knowledge needs, and two Cross-cutting 
Themes dealing with general issues that are relevant to all the Topical Themes (Figure 1). The 
themes are identified by Biodiversa+ members as they closely align with the core themes of the 
EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2030, are action oriented, ground breaking for science and considered 
as urgent for policy and management at the European and international levels. They do not 
necessarily get translated into specific Flagship Programs and/or calls for projects. 
IPBES is an independent intergovernmental body established by States to strengthen the sciencepolicy interface for biodiversity and ecosystem services for the conservation and sustainable use 
Figure 1: Overview of the topical and cross-cutting themes that structure the SRIA 
for Biodiversa+
Report on the uptake of knowledge gaps identified in IPBES assessments by Biodiversa+ programmes and projects
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of biodiversity, long-term human well-being and sustainable development. The work of IPBES can 
be broadly grouped into four complementary areas:
• Assessments: On specific themes (e.g., “Sustainable use of wild species”); methodological 
issues (e.g., “Scenarios and Modelling); and at both the regional and global levels (e.g., 
“Global Assessment of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services”)
• Policy Support: Identifying policy-relevant tools and methodologies, facilitating their use, 
and catalyzing their further development
• Building Capacity & Knowledge: Identifying and meeting the priority capacity as well as 
knowledge and data needs
• Communications & Outreach: Ensuring the widest reach and impact of IPBES work
The function on knowledge consists in strengthening the knowledge foundations and promoting
the generation of new knowledge on biodiversity and ecosystem services. To do so, the task force 
on knowledge (hosted by Biodiversa+) is mandated to catalyse the generation of new knowledge 
by making the knowledge gaps identified through IPBES assessments known and promoting their 
uptake by relevant organizations that programme and fund biodiversity research. Knowledge gaps 
are defined by IPBES1 as pieces of knowledge, information or data that are absent or insufficient 
to fulfil the mandate of an assessment. The term “knowledge gaps” includes the following 
elements, all of which will be flagged in the gaps’ identification process: 
• Knowledge gaps referring to research gaps (e.g., conceptual gaps, relationship knowledge 
gaps, methodology gaps); 
• Data gaps (e.g., spatial, temporal, taxonomic, functional, habitat, social sciences, 
economics); 
• Indigenous and local knowledge mobilization gaps, where indigenous and local knowledge 
can be assumed to exist but is not available to assessment authors. 
They are identified by experts writing the assessments when doing a literature review on the 
assessment’s topic. The task force on knowledge the experts by promoting the consistent and 
systematic identification of knowledge gaps across all chapters of each assessment and across 
assessments. The experts can present the knowledge gaps in an IPBES assessment in different 
ways: a section at the end of each chapter, as key messages in the chapter executive summaries 
and as a table in the summary for policymakers.
Multiple knowledge gaps have been identified in the existing IPBES assessments and this report 
aims at finding (i) if they were considered when writing the SRIA of the Partnership, (ii) if they were 
identified when writing a call for research and finally (iii) if they were identified by researchers when 
writing up of their research project or taken into consideration later in the life of the proje