Biodiversity Genomics Europe plus (BGE+) builds on a pan-European collaboration to scale up the production and uptake of genomic evidence for taxonomy, monitoring and policy. It widens participation, standardises methods, and prepares a distributed European system for biodiversity genomics that links molecules to ecosystems.

BGE+ has four objectives:

(1) broaden participation and capacity

(2) make distributed genomic data production interoperable and FAIR by design

(3) translate evidence into practice through co-designed use-case roadmaps

(4) define the service portfolio and assess financial and technical feasibility for a future European research infrastructure in biodiversity genomics

The consortium unites iBOL Europe (DNA barcoding), ERGA (reference genomes) and CETAF (taxonomic research and natural history collections) to align end-to-end workflows from field sampling to application. Through targeted cascade grants (Financial Support to Third Parties) and hands-on training, BGE+ enlarges community capacity while converging on shared protocols and standard practices, improving data interoperability and consolidating community efforts. Building on previous work, BGE+ carries forward the communities’ long-term vision: turning fragmented efforts into a coherent, scalable system that delivers reliable genomic evidence for taxonomy and policy.

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation program under grant agreement No 101289347.