Resource description:
The BioValue project (2022-2025) has developed innovative approaches to embed biodiversity into spatial planning and policy: this Final Exploitation Plan sets out how the project’s results – including analytical frameworks, tools, and practices tested in real-world contexts – will continue to deliver impact beyond the project’s lifetime. The consortium’s strategy for ensuring that BioValue’s Key Exploitable Results (KERs) – tested and applied within BioValue’s Arenas for Transformation (Trento, Italy; Mafra, Portugal; and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany) – are adopted, scaled, replicated and sustained by diverse stakeholders across the EU is detailed throughout the document.
While European territories face mounting pressures from biodiversity loss, climate change, and competing land uses, planning decisions too often treat biodiversity as a constraint rather than a driver of resilience and quality of life. By advancing robust tools, tested methodologies, and actionable guidance, BioValue has laid the foundations for embedding biodiversity into planning at multiple governance levels. This Plan provides policymakers, planners, practitioners, and researchers with actionable strategies for mainstreaming biodiversity, supporting policy frameworks such as the EU Biodiversity Strategy 2030 and the European Green Deal and ensuring that the project’s results continue to shape European policy, practice, and research, driving transformative change
Author/Contact:
Chiara Bartolacci (ICONS), Giovanni Amigoni (ICONS)
Contact: chiara.bartolacci@icons.it