EDIT, a network of excellence
The European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy, EDIT, is a Network of Excellence: a common effort from 28 leading scientific institutions to integrate their activities, their strengths and their research plans. Taxonomy is a uniquely fragmented science. This hides its tremendous power to explain and understand biodiversity; yet Europe possesses research institutions with great resources and skills, which, together, can respond to modern challenges.
Taxonomy provides the basis for understanding biodiversity. Overcoming the taxonomic impediment involves both having enough trained taxonomists and having taxonomic information available to those who need it.
The project objectives are to help to reduce the fragmentation in European taxonomic research and expertise and to coordinate the European contribution to the global taxonomic effort, in particular the Global Taxonomy Initiative, through an integrated initiative aimed at improving society’s capacity for biodiversity conservation.
