D1.1 List of 10-15 User Stories

Status: Not reviewed by ERA yet

The Biodiversity Meets Data (BMD) project is working to deliver a Single Access Point (SAP) to high-throughput biodiversity data, monitoring and analysis tools to support the biodiversity conservation and restoration work of Europe’s Natura 2000 (N2K) site managers and policymakers. A suite of tailored thematic Virtual Research Environments (VREs) forms the foundation of the SAP and will be co-designed with stakeholders to ensure that the data and tools made available are functional and relevant for the practitioners that will use them. The first set of co-design activities were facilitated by the BMD team from September to November 2025 and created the opportunity for stakeholders to engage in dialogue with the BMD team about their biodiversity information and analysis needs and priorities by participating in interactive user story workshops. Three lists of user stories have been produced as a result of the contributions gathered in these workshops. These lists provide guidance on the thematic direction that the VREs should take at this stage, to ensure that stakeholder needs are appropriately addressed. The three lists are detailed in full in a separate database which will be shared within the BMD team to provide important guidance to the ongoing technical developments of the project. A consolidated list of user stories and additional interesting examples are presented in this report, with supporting information about the composition of the group of stakeholders who contributed so far, and the participatory approaches employed in facilitating the creation of the user stories.