The German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) is a leading research center of biodiversity sciences with a research focus on insights into the biological diversity of Earth. Researches from all over the world cooperate in building the scientific foundation of a sustainable development of the biological diversity. Moreover, the conter reaches out to the civil society – for instance in its internationally oriented media relations or in events like the Long Night of Sciences, the Leipzig Book Fair or SPIN 2030.