NBFC - National Biodiversity Future Center

Project

Proposer: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerca (Palermo)
Total number of partners involved: 50
Number of universities involved: 26
Number of public and public research bodies involved: 7
Number of private bodies involved: 11
Funding granted: 320.026.665,79 euro

Description

The National Biodiversity Future Center carries out research and promotes the development of solutions to monitor, preserve and restore functional biodiversity, in order to counteract the anthropogenic impact, the effects of climate change and to support ecosystem services. The Center supports research and innovation activities for the enhancement of biodiversity through circular economy and restoration economy processes capable of protecting environmental resources and ensuring the well-being of the person.

The main objective is the creation of an extensive network of universities and research centers in order to identify the major drivers of biodiversity loss and promote a more sustainable development.

Partners

Timing

Start of activities: 01.09.2022
End of activities: 31.08.2025

Project Organization

The project has an Hub & Spoke governance structure. As Hub, the limited liability consortium company called "National Biodiversity Future Center limited liability consortium company" (NBFC s.c.a.r.l.) was established, responsible for coordinating and implementing the program. The 8 Spokes are the executors in charge of carrying out the activities and in turn make use of the collaboration of Affiliated subjects. The University of Udine is affiliated with Spoke 4 whose leader is the CNR.
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Research areas

Each Spoke explores specific issues:
Spoke 1 - Mapping and monitoring actions to preserve marine ecosystem biodiversity and functioning;
Spoke 2 – Solutions to reverse marine biodiversity loss and manage marine resources sustainably;
Spoke 3 – Assessing and monitoring terrestrial and freshwater biodiversity and its evolution: from taxonomy to genomics and citizen science;
Spoke 4 - Ecosystem functions, services and solutions;
Spoke 5 – Urban biodiversity;
Spoke 6 – Biodiversity and human wellbeing;
Spoke 7 – Biodiversity and society: communication, education and social impact;
Spoke 8 – Biodiversity Open Innovation & Development of KETs.

The role of UniUD

The University of Udine is involved in the following Spoke 4 activities:
1. Advanced systems for monitoring, studying and managing biodiversity, its organization, the related ecosystem functions and services in relation to natural and anthropic impacts;
2. Adaptation and mitigation of terrestrial ecosystems to climate change including ecological responses and future forecast scenarios;
3. Genetic-molecular and modelling toolkits for the conservation of high-relevance ecosystems.

UniUD research team

Michele Morgante – NBFC’s Scientific coordinator for UNIUD

Guido Incerti
Giorgio Alberti
Paola Beraldo
Alberto Biscontin
Francesco Boscutti
Valentino Casolo
Alessandra di Francesco
Gabriele Magris
Fabio Marroni
Francesco Nazzi
Roberto Pagliarini
Speranza Claudia Panico
Carla Piazza
Alberto Policriti
Virginia Zanni

Current vacancies

Positions: Type A Fixed term researcher
Duration: 36 months

Call 07/D1 - CLOSED
Discipline: SSD AGR/11 (General and applied entomology)
Title of the project: Responses of the arthropod fauna to natural and anthropogenic pressures, with particular reference to those resulting from climate change, and consequences for ecosystem services

Call 05/C1 - CLOSED
Discipline: SSD BIO/07 (Ecology)
Title of the project: Functions and resilience of biodiversity in terrestrial ecosystems: adaptation and mitigation of climate change by spontaneous renaturalization processes.

Call 05/IA - CLOSED
Discipline: SSD BIO/18 (Genetic)
Title of the project: Development and use of methods and tools for the analysis of intraspecific genetic diversity

Call 01/B1 - CLOSED
Discipline: SSD INF/01 (Informatic)
Title of the project: Computational Models for Biodiversity Analysis.

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