To ensure a lasting and impactful transformation, the European-wide TETTRIs project has asked the wider community to co-create and test solutions. A call for funding was published in June, 2023. 54 applications were received from all over the continent.
Almost one third of TETTRIs Є6 million has been successfully allocated to 12 external projects who applied for this cascade-funding. These projects extend the TETTRIs community beyond the initial beneficiaries. These projects will help establish open access to collections data, design and test novel artificial intelligence and molecular tools, test training frameworks and involve citizen scientists in monitoring biodiversity hotspots.
This community-based perspective is fundamental to the entire ethos of TETTRIs.
Below are the 12 projects. In the coming weeks we will publish the details of each project.
Congratulations to the teams! Looking forward to working with you.
| Topic Nr | Project Name | Project Acronym | Location | Consortium | Start Date | Budget |
| 1 | Instigating a National Reference Collection for Spain’s Threatened Pollinators | INC-STEP | Spain | CSIC, UNAV, UCM, UV, MCNB | 01/01/2024 | € 199,599.78 |
| 1 | Aligning Reference Collections with tAxonomic Development Efforts for pollinator conservation in Portugal | ARCADE | Portugal | UC, Tagis, MNHNC,MHNC-UP,Uac,Uma | 01/01/2024 | € 127,139.69 |
| 1 | Balkan Pollinator Digital Survey | Balkan PolliS | Balkan Peninsula | UNSPMF, Uaegean, SFI, PMP | 01/01/2024 | € 198,900.00 |
| 2 | Making biodiversity knowledge available: an integrative, appealing and dynamic digital dashboard for sedges (Plantae, Cyperaceae) | iSedge | Spain | UPO, VLIZ, URJC | 01/01/2024 | € 196,483.53 |
| 2 | Taxonomic Name Linking Services | TNLS | Belgium | VLIZ | 01/05/2024 | € 150,000.00 |
| 3 | Training Artificial intelligence models for land snail identification | TrAILSID | Germany | LIB | 01/01/2024 | € 113,815.00 |
| 4 | Training for the European Orthoptera Sound System | TEOSS | European Mediterranean Peninsulas and Alpine Region | AEA, University of Ioannina, Fondazione Museo Civico di Rovereto, IUCN | 01/03/2024 | € 149,300.00 |
| 5 | Untangling CRYPtic diversity of endemic endangered spidERS in the Mercantour-Alpi Marittime Natural Park | CRYPTERS | Alps | UniTo | 01/03/2024 | € 58,440.00 |
| 5 | Implementing cost-effective genomic tools for high resolution species delimitation in recent plant island radiations in Macaronesia | NEXTRAD | Macronesia | NIBIO, JBCVC, RJB | 01/01/2024 | € 176,800.00 |
| 6 | Soil Meiofauna Advanced Taxonomy school | SoilMATs | Italy,Germany, Czech Republic | UniMORE, SMNSG, CAS | 01/09/2024 | € 163,839.00 |
| 6 | Lighting up the Understudied but Charismatic fireflies of Europe: mentoring early-career researchers to improve access to knowledge on fireflies of the Italian Peninsula Hotspot using TETTRIs’ name matching and linking workflows | L.U.C.E. | Italy | CNR, Sant’Anna | 01/10/2024 | € 94,984.00 |
| 7 | Feedback Loop: Taxonomic ID from Photo Recognition, Integrated Species distribution modeling, and Citizen Science | FOOTPRINTS-CITSCI | Norway | NTNU, Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre, Wild Lab Projects, Trondheim Municipality, iTrollheimen AS | 01/01/2024 | € 166,235.00 |
