Status: Not approved by REA yet Author(s): Niels Raes Contributor(s): Cosimo Vallo, Stella Koprinkova, Nikol Stoykova, Kessy Abarenkov, Christos Arvanitidis Non-technical summary:The Biodiversity Meets Data project will provide its stakeholder communities with state of the art high-throughput biodiversity monitoring tools including camera traps, passive acoustic monitoring and eDNA sampling in combination with AI species identification tools. The captured data can then be analysed with co-designed Biodiversity Analysis Tools (BATs) and support effective management of European biodiversity that is protected in the Natura 2000 network. The BATs will include trend analysis tools, the identification of drivers of change, projected impacts of climate change, among others in support of both Natura 2000 site management and the wider biodiversity policy domain in support of the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030, the Nature Restoration Regulation (NRR) and the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (K-M GBF).In order to derive trends in the distribution and abundance of species across Europe it is necessary to mobilise historical baseline and legacy biodiversity data. These data are often ‘locked’ in locally stored databases and Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) reports. To analyse historical baseline data together with the newly generated high-throughput biodiversity data it is necessary to mobilise the data to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) or Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) from where the data is accessible for analysis with the BATs via the Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). Data mobilisation to GBIF and OBIS ensures that the data will be standardised to the Darwin Core (DwC) biodiversity data standard.BMD can build on a large body of existing tutorials and training materials on the mobilisation of historical baseline and legacy data to the FAIR data portals of GBIF and OBIS. The same applies for the training materials for PlutoF that facilitate the management and mobilisation of eDNA biodiversity data to GBIF, and the Catalogue of Life (COL) that enables the harmonisation of taxonomic names across datasets from different EU member states.To ensure the long-term sustainability and availability of the ‘BMD Access Gate to data mobilisation tutorials’ the training portal of LifeWatch ERIC was selected to provide stakeholders and end-users of the BMD tools and services with access to existing training materials via https://training.lifewatch.eu/international-projects/resources/?category=36 (Fig.12). LifeWatch ERIC is a BMD partner and well-established European Research Infrastructure that remains operational after finalising the BMD project, hence secures the long-term availability of, and access to, the ‘BMD Access Gate to data mobilisation tutorials’.