EuropaBON recently released its newsletter including two important updates from B-Cubed. In their features, you can find out important information on B-Cubed’s hackathon such as topics, deadlines and aim of the event.

Moreover, in the newsletter, you can read about the project’s presence at the Global Conference on Biodiversity and Monitoring with a joint session on ‘From Insight to Action: Mapping Europe's Biodiversity Initiatives and their Path towards 2030 Ambitions’. During this session, experts explored the practical implementation of the Europa Biodiversity Observation Network, emphasising critical aspects such as sampling design, open data infrastructures, protected area monitoring, and data intelligence. 

EuropaBON’s coordinator Henrique Pereira (left), María Cecilia Londoño (middle), Lina Estupinan-Suarez (right)

Representing B-Cubed was Lina Estupinan Suarez (iDiv), who elaborated on how the project plans to contribute to the estimation of species level Essential Biodiversity Variables identified by EuropaBON, particularly in alignment with key EU policies such as the habitat directive, Natura 2000 network, and the anticipated Ecosystem Restoration law.

Check out the full newsletter from EuropaBON here.