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CETAF and the Institutions of our network, are active taxonomic scientists, publishers, curators and policy advocates. Sharing the results of our research and the relevant information we use, make the collaborative work increasingly visible and more widely spread. The dissemination actions underpin our efforts for enhancing the societal involvement in science and the social awareness of the importance of taxonomy for the sustainability of our planet.
Below, the most relevant set of News concerning CETAF, its Members and other related agents of our scientific community.
Highlights
FIRST TRANSNATIONAL ACCESS CALL OF SYNTHESYS+ PROJECT LAUNCHED
The fourth iteration of the SYNTHESYS projects started on February 1st 2019, this time with CETAF as a partner.
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09th May, 2019
The CETAF45 Governing Board Meeting hosted by the University of Tartu Natural History Museum and Botanical Garden will take place on May 15th & 16th 2019.
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27th Mar, 2019
In July 2018, over 100 invited stakeholders convened in Copenhagen for the Second Global Biodiversity Informatics Conference, or GBIC2. The conference followed-up on the Global Biodiversity Informatics Outlook, or GBIO, which was elaborated at the first GBIC conference in July 2012.
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06th Mar, 2019
At CETAF 44, the CETAF European Initiatives Advisory Group presented the latest developments regarding the new framework programme Horizon Europe. Within this programme lies a new opportunity to further establish the position of CETAF and its members as scientific institutions who conduct cutting edge, socially relevant research: the so-called missions. For this new instrument, proposals can be submitted that might later get taken up.
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05th Feb, 2019
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01st Feb, 2019
The fourth iteration of the SYNTHESYS projects started on February 1st 2019, this time with CETAF as a partner.
One key component of the projects was the provision of transnational access to natural history collections. This has not changed with the new project, SYNTHESYS+. Along with the start of the project the first call for physical access was launched as well on 1 February 2019.
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30th Jan, 2019
We have the pleasure to announce the first Training School (TS) of our active COST Action MOBILISE, organized under WG6 “EDUCATION & TRAINING, DISSEMINATION & OUTREACH”
Digitisation and Data Management Challenges in Small Collections
14-15 March 2019, Sofia, BG
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21st Nov, 2018
The 44th Meeting of the CETAF Governing Board, hosted perfectly by the Plant Science and Biodiversity Centre, Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava took place on the 14th and 15th of November 2018.
At the meeting, taxonomy and research themes took centre stage, as the main focal point of several discussion threads. This was highlighted by a special, dedicated workshop on the "CETAF vision for taxonomy and systematics research in 2030”.
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19th Nov, 2018
Two of our currently running projects have exciting opportunities for participation for partners and researchers!
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09th Nov, 2018
The 2019 open digital science week on biological and geological diversity, biodiversity_next, is calling for symposia, workshops & events.
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07th Nov, 2018
In the wake of the tragedy that occurred at the Museu Nacional in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in September 2018, when a fire devastated large parts of the museum and collections, CETAF has received a passionate plea for help from the museum's department of vertebrates.