Funder: Secretariat for Convention on Biological Diversity

Project leader: Dr. Galina Mozgova, National Koordination Biosafety Centre, Institute of Genetic and Cytology of National Academy of Science of Belarus

Team members from IBISS: Dr. Aleksej Tarasjev, Department for Evolutionary Biology, IBISS

Abstract

The goal of Project supported by Bio Bridge Initiative of Secretariat of Convention for Biological Diversity in the fields of Biodiversity and climate change and Biodiversity and health is to foster cooperation between the Agricultural Institute of Republic of Srpska, Banja Luka (Bosnia and Herzegovina), the Department of Disease Prevention and State Sanitary and Epidemiological Surveillance (Kyrgyz Republic), the P.I. Environmental Projects Implementation Unit of the Ministry of Environment (Moldova), the Institute for Biological Research "Siniša Stanković" of the National Institute of the Republic of Serbia of the University of Belgrade (Serbia), the Department of Biotechnology and Systems Biology of the National Institute of Biology (Slovenia), and the Institute of Botany, Plant Physiology and Genetics of the Tajikistan National Academy of Sciences (Tajikistan) and IGC (Belarus), through the creation of an active network of Central and Eastern European (CEE) and Central Asian centres of excellence that will cooperate to carry out joint activities to identify key drivers of biodiversity loss, and protect human, animal and plant health.