Summary of conference
What the team takes home (Main messages)
• Your high interest in finding the proper NoK approach!
• Intensify the exchange with existing
institutions
• IPBES: „European input is not just about
Europe“
• Diversify communications (including web streaming!!!)
Summary of conference
What the team takes home • Enabling conditions: • look at different groups
• finances and acknowledgement crucial
• Governance: • Link up with existing institutions
• Transparency of processes
• Relevance
• Be clear about the policy side
• Specify the possible links to IPBES
• Quality assurance: • Different levels to be addressed
 Quality of input
 Quality of process, …
Summary of conference
What the team takes home • Different forms of knowledge: • Integration across the whole NoK process
• Role in assessments to be clarified case
by case
• Evidence‐based approaches:
• Identify manageable questions
• Use existing standards/ experiences
• (check use of other approaches)
• Building a Community of Interest: • Step by step approach
• Explore existing IT‐solutions for specific
needs
• (no single general IT platform solution)
Summary of conference
Next steps for us
• Summarize the conference (website)
• Further develop prototype (green paper)
• Implement via the demonstration cases
• Link up with partners
• Broaden communication
• 2nd BiodiversityKnowledge conference in autumn 2013
Summary of conference
Next steps from you?
Thank you again …
> for joining us … and keeping in touch
BiodiversityKnowledge is funded by the European Commission via the project KNEU (Coordination action, FP7, Grant No. 265299)