“Generating collective learning and sharing our skills and experiences”
Become had its first in-person meeting in France 15-17 January 2024, in Fontainebleau Biosphere Reserve and in Paris. During two days all partners got to work with a fairly intensive full-day programme. During the first day, we had some team building and getting to know each other activities. We had discussions sessions to create a shared understanding about key project concepts, walking in the beautiful grounds of the Station d’écologie forestière. On the second day we focused on performing a project temperature check to help identify key next steps, generating an action plan for the work packages and identifying key synergies across the different project aspects.
During the third day, we visited Fontainebleau Biosphere Reserve and were welcomed by the Biosphere Reserve management for a short tour of the area. In the afternoon a Become delegation visited the UNESCO secretariat. Alicia Barraclough and the rest of the BECOME delegation presented the project to a group of UNESCO and Man and Biosphere Programme staff, hosted by Meriem Bouamrane and her team. After the presentation followed a discussion and feedback session to discover synergies between UNESCO MAB’s work and the Become project plans, to tighten the research-policy links between us. And of course, a tour of the UNESCO Secretariat building and it’s own special heritage.
We agreed on a timeline of key dates for 2024 to work towards, particularly in connection to the implementation of the Global Biodiversity Framework and the work of the Convention on Biological Diversity. We are writing a report of key meeting outcomes which will be shared on this website by the end of the month.
