Main outcomes

• Strategy roadmap for EU citizen science gateway for biodiversity data
• EU BON services and data provision for the European taxonomic backbone
• European Biodiversity Portal to enable fast access to integrated data and products
• Open Data Publishing and Dissemination
• Framework and Toolkit
• Policy paper on strategies for data mobilization and use in conservation
• Prototype of integrated, scalable, global biodiversity monitoring schemes
• Strategies for EU-integrated national and regional biodiversity information infrastructures
• Sustainability plan for regional and global biodiversity information network

EU BON will

• Advance technological platforms for GEO BON to achieve interoperability through the GEOSS Common Infrastructure
• Improve the methods and tools for assessment, analysis, visualization and publishing of biodiversity information
• Improve knowledge and methods for linking of biodiversity and environmental data
• Provide mechanisms for delivering integrated biodiversity information needed to meet specific tasks
• Develop frameworks and strategies for next generation management and use of biodiversity information at national and regional levels
• Design concepts for sustaining integrated environmental information systems with active participation of citizens, business and industry