The BiodivAMP project developed tools for monitoring and protecting biodiversity in Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) along the Portuguese coast, namely i) a manual of good practices for the monitoring, management and governance of MPAs on the Portuguese coast, ii) implemented a pilot project for the “Application of an innovative non-invasive monitoring method in MPAs: eDNA metabarcoding as a tool for monitoring Biodiversity”. iii) dissemination of the project's activities and results was an objective transversal to the two main objectives, assuming an extreme relevance of making the general public aware of the importance of MPA's and of providing stakeholders with tools so that they can manage MPA's in a more effective and sustainable way.

The project was promoted by ISPA, CRL. (ISPA; NUTII Lisboa), which had as partner entities the Associação Natureza Portugal in association with the World Wide Fund for Nature (ANP|WWF; NUTII Lisboa), the Centre of Marine Sciences of the University of Algarve (NUTII Algarve), the Esposende City Council (NUTII Norte), the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria (NUTII Centro), the University of Évora - CIEMAR (NUTII Alentejo), the company Naturalist, Science and Tourism (NUTII Açores) and the Funchal Municipal Museum (NUTII Madeira ). The BiodivAMP project also had institutional support from the Institute for the Conservation of Nature and Forests, I.P. (ICNF) through an expression of interest in this project.

CCMAR coordinated the implementation of the pilot project to monitor biodiversity in national MPAs using eDNA metabarcoding.