The objective of the BioScore project is to develop a cost-effective tool that allows for monitoring and assessment of the impacts of key drivers and pressures from Community policies on biodiversity (species), with the ultimate aim of helping to halt the loss of biodiversity in the EU by 2010.

The operational goals of this project are to:

• assemble the necessary knowledge base (policy, science, data) for developing the tool;
• build a cost-effective impact assessment tool in the form of a European species database with sensitivity scores;
• apply the tool for the purpose of assessing the impacts of EU policies on biodiversity;
• apply the tool for analysing the effectiveness of European policy responses;
• apply the tool for modelling European-wide scenarios for selected drivers (e.g. forestry and climate change);
• integrate the knowledge gained from developing and testing the tool on species sensitivities into an existing common monitoring framework to assess the impact of selected pressures on biodiversity;
• propose incentives for a wide uptake of the tool.  
  

An access database that contains information on the ecological parameters and preferences of species to certain habitats has been created as part of BioScore in order to store all this information. A simplified pdf of such database is available below.