Practitioners join BMD for co-design workshop
On 3 November, site managers and practitioners working to protect Europe’s biodiversity joined the BMD team for an interactive online workshop. Over the course of the 2-hour session, participants got to know each other and, through a series of facilitated activities and discussions, they identified several key areas in which biodiversity data and analyses could better support the crucial monitoring, protection and restoration work happening across the terrestrial, freshwater and marine realms in Europe.
Focused workshops like this are playing an important role in shaping the direction of the BMD project and creating opportunities for ‘co-design’ between the project and the natural site managers and practitioners that the BMD tools are being designed to support.
In addition to having direct conversations with members of the BMD team about what areas of biodiversity data and monitoring to focus on, several participants also created their own “user story”, which concisely illustrates a particular biodiversity monitoring question that could later be the focus of one of BMD’s visualisation tools.
Following this online workshop, there will be more opportunities for site managers and practitioners to get involved in the project, building on the contributions and feedback gathered so far.
Further in-person and online co-design activities will be facilitated in 2026. Follow the project’s newsletter and social media channels, or join the BMD stakeholder network, to be notified when these activities are taking place.
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