The German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research - iDiv, is a hub for international biodiversity science with its central mission Detection:
to promote theory-driven data-driven synthesis and theory as well the scientific foundation for management of the earth’s biodiversity.
The Synthesis Centre for Biodiversity Sciences - sDiv is the main instrument of iDiv to foster theoretical and synthetic thinking in biodiversity sciences by bringing together researchers from different projects and disciplines and creating conditions that will promote a creative process.
The research training group of young biodiversity researchers - yDiv, has been designed to educate a new generation of scientists in transdisciplinary biodiversity research.
Biodiversity research for our future
Over the last 20 years, biodiversity research has been established and shaped as a young interdisciplinary research field. In light of the global biodiversity crisis, however, this research is under pressure related to time and expectations and investments are necessary. The German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) since October 1, 2012, and will become a hub for biodiversity research.
The German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv)
- concentrates expertise across city and state borders
- brings together top scientists
- connects theoreticians and empiricists of manifold research fields
- focuses on theory and synthesis (synthesis centre sDiv)
- educates a new generation of scientists in transdisciplinary biodiversity
research (graduate school yDiv) - communicates the importance of safeguarding biodiversity
