About BIONEXT

BIONEXT is a research and innovation project that joins the fight for nature and biodiversity. The project produces new evidence to better understand biodiversity loss and demonstrates how biodiversity underpins every aspect of life; the water we drink, the food we eat, and our health. To secure and protect these values, the project demands transformative change: BIONEXT’s goal is a sustainable society, where links between biodiversity, water, food, energy, transport, climate, and health are acknowledged and nature and biodiversity are a part of everyday choices and policymaking.

BIONEXT creates and offers science-based solutions and tools for reversing biodiversity loss and achieving regenerative, nature-centered futures and societies. The project creates new knowledge and science-based solutions for sustainable futures, for example, for the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), EU policymakers, and civil society.

BIONEXT brings together science and scientists from different fields and creates a network of scientists who are ambitious to create practical and effective solutions for halting biodiversity loss.

BIONEXT is funded by the EU’s research and innovation program Horizon Europe and by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) under the UK government’s Horizon Europe funding guarantee 10039588. The project is coordinated by the Finnish Environment Institute (Syke). The project is executed in four years (2022–2026) and the consortium has ten partners from eight European countries. The project received funding of 4,1 million euros.