Project, 2026
NextBON
Next Generation Biodiversity Observation Network
NextBON is a Horizon Europe project funded under call HORIZON-CL6-2025-01 (Grant Agreement 101287608). It started on 1 October 2026 and runs for 48 months. The project is coordinated by the University of Copenhagen, and the consortium includes 22 institutions from 16 countries.
NextBON develops a tiered blueprint for biodiversity monitoring in Europe:
- Tier 1: EU-wide satellite imagery to track ecosystem and land cover trends
- Tier 2: national and habitat-specific assessments of priority species and communities
- Tier 3: intensive local field studies with IoT sensors, eDNA and genomics
The work is organised in eight work packages.
The role of geoLAB
The University of Florence takes part in NextBON with geoLAB, the Laboratory of Forest Geomatics of the Department of Agriculture, Food, Environment and Forestry (DAGRI). geoLAB is responsible for the component on the use of multi-source Earth Observation tools for biodiversity monitoring.