D8.2 BMD Data Management Plan

The Biodiversity Meets Data (BMD) project is a 4-year EU Horizon Europe project (2025-2029) led by Naturalis Biodiversity Center that aims to deliver a Single Access Point (SAP) that provides natural resources managers and policy makers access to: a) metadata catalogue that provides access to all relevant EU biodiversity data and spatial data that determine the distribution of species and/or represent drivers of biodiversity changes, b) high-throughput biodiversity monitoring tools, c) tools to mobilise historical baseline data, d) Virtual Research Environments (VREs) for the terrestrial, freshwater and marine domains to analyse and predict the distribution of species and to identify drivers of biodiversity change, and e) a web-GIS data viewer to visualise and consult the data and results of the VREs. By integrating historical baseline data with near real-time biodiversity monitoring data and providing standardised access to data and tools to analyse the data and monitor and manage natural resources across Europe, BMD will support more effective implementation of EU Nature Directives, the Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 and the EU Green Deal. This document, the BMD Data Management Plan (DMP), required under Horizon Europe, includes policies on the publication, storage, persistence and accessibility of all data generated or reused by project partners, under the practices of FAIR and open science. The document follows EU Grants: Data management plan (HE):V1.1 – 01.04.2022 template as provided in the EU Funding & Tenders Portal.