www.netbiome.net

In November, 2010, Net-Biome launched a call for proposals for trans-national and   trans-regional research entitled “Towards Biodiversity Management in support of Sustainable Development in Tropical and Subtropical EU”. 
This first Joint Call received over 80 Manifestations of Interest, which resulted in 35 project applications. After all the evaluation steps 7 projects were finally selected for funding. For those projects the total amount of funding was about 3.1M€, with an average of 448.000€ per project with a duration of 3 years. The projects will start in March 2012. Further details on the Net-Biome Joint Call booklet on all funded projects (pdf, 4mb)

NET-BIOME is a regional ERA-NET project presented by a consortium of 11 partners, representing regional or territorial bodies from the 5 Member States concerned by European tropical overseas territories that finance and/or manage research activities in the selected thematic fields:

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• France: the 4 outermost regions (Guadeloupe archipelago, Martinique, French Guiana, La Réunion) and two overseas territories (New Caledonia and French Polynesia);
• Netherlands: the independently governed Dutch Overseas Territories of Curaçao, the Dutch part of St. Martin, and the special Dutch municipalities of Bonaire, Saba, St. Eustatius;
• Portugal: the two outermost regions of Azores and Madeira archipelagos;
• Spain: the outermost region of Canary Islands;
• United Kingdom: the 9 independently governed UK Overseas Territories (Cayman Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands, British Virgin Islands, Anguilla, Montserrat, Ascension Island, St. Helena, British Indian Ocean Territory and the Pitcairn Islands groups).