Wednesday, July 8, 2026

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Room BE.0.08

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National science, policy, and society interfaces (or national hubs) are crucial bodies to achieve the UN social development goals which includes biodiversity and the required societal transformation that is needed to bend the curve of biodiversity loss. Good functioning national hubs effectively channel actionable knowledge from the science domain to the policy and society domains. This route is also vice versa: policy and societal actors are important to identify new knowledge gaps or societal challenges that requires research and new actionable knowledge. The cross-science domains interdisciplinary National Thematic Committee for Biodiversity Research (NTCBR) is tasked by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) to write a national Roadmap for the Dutch biodiversity research community. One of the themes in this Roadmap is a framework advice to NWO, research institutes and other national funders in how to best organise the Dutch biodiversity research community, including the Dutch Caribbean. The NTCBR is seeking input for their Roadmap from international researchers and communities. This round table session will focus on lessons, pitfalls, and inspiration from other countries in how they organised their biodiversity research communities and/or national hubs. The session will start off with a panel member interview. This is followed by exchanging ideas at round tables with the participants. The ECCB is a good opportunity to interact with the international biodiversity researchers. Next to the lessons and inspiration on national hubs, this sessions may also create a good possibility to discuss and explore ways of extended national collaboration on at ECCB programmed themes. This round table session will be used to tailor the NTCBR Roadmap framework advice, with the overarching goal to improve integration between knowledge creators, practitioners, policy makers, and societal organisations and citizens to bend the curve of biodiversity loss in The Netherlands and beyond.

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