The National Biodiversity Future Center (NBFC), Italy's first national research center for biodiversity, hosted at the University of Palermo, opened on Thursday. The announcement was by the Council for Research in Agriculture and Agrarian Economy Analysis (CREA), which is taking part in the project.

The center, provided for the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP), CREA said, focuses on biodiversity: a priority at both the national and international levels. It does so through a network coordinated by the National Research Council (CNR) comprising 48 partners including universities, research bodies, foundations, and enterprises that were selected on the basis of their proven scientific, technological, ethical, and market leadership.