The objective of this contract is to strengthen capacity for the implementation of pollinator monitoring provisions under the Nature Restoration Regulation, by complementing the existing Commission’s activities for technical capacity building in Member States. Specifically, the contract will strengthen i) taxonomic tools and expert capacity to support the implementation of the pollinator monitoring method (EU-PoMS), and ii) the national capacity for butterfly monitoring to support both EU-PoMS and the European Butterfly Monitoring Scheme.