BioSyst EU aims to provide a European platform to:

• hold joint meetings on a regular basis;
• promote research, teaching, and training in all areas of systematic biology, including phylogenetic, taxonomic, and biodiversity research;
• encourage collaboration and interchange among researchers, both individually and through their respective societies and institutions;
• coordinate national and international efforts without infringing on the autonomy of the member societies;
• encourage formation of additional national systematic societies, while continuing to represent systematists in countries still lacking formal societies;
• increase the profile and funding of systematic biology in the European parliament.