Accurate taxonomic knowledge and tools are needed to understand the drivers and impact of biodiversity decline. TETTRIs (Transforming European Taxonomy through Training, Research and Innovations) aims to increase taxonomic capacity, particularly in biodiversity hotspots of Europe by creating reference collections, training frameworks, and innovative tools as well as by developing centralised resources providing access to an expertise marketplace, the taxonomic knowledge platform, and career paths.
The core methodology for reaching these objectives includes co-creation with citizen scientists and professionals in biodiversity hotspots. The open-access knowledge and systems developed by TETTRIs in collaboration with citizen scientists, will accelerate the integration and expansion of taxonomy in education, governance, and multidisciplinary research. This will ensure the long-term relevance of taxonomy as an instrumental science, necessary to halt European and global biodiversity loss, and ensuring that ecosystems and their services are preserved and sustainably restored on land, inland water and at sea. TETTRIs builds taxonomic research capacity near biodiversity hotspots by networking natural history museums and other taxonomic facilities through bottom-up co-creation between 17 European partners.
Follow the progress of TETTRIs on its social media channels ​(@TETTRIsEU for both Twitter and Facebook)​ ​​​and ​website ​​(https://tettris.eu/), which are now online.