ENBI (European Network for Biodiversity Information) is an initiative funded by the European Union, and has the general objective to manage an open network of relevant biodiversity information centres in Europe. This programme aims at being the European contribution to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

One element of ENBI (WP13, work package 13), in which the Platform is involved, deals with making non-European biodiversity data in European repositories globally available. As many European countries have a colonial past, a large share of global biodiversity information, especially from developing countries in the tropics resides in databases of European institutions, including museum and botanic garden collections. Faced with a fragile infrastructure and limited resources for taxonomy, local users of biodiversity information in tropical countries are confronted with great difficulties to obtain access to high-quality collections-based information on the biodiversity of their region.