The CETAF Executive Committee is delighted to announce CETAF's participation in the upcoming Global Taxonomy Initiative Forum, organised by the CBD secretariat and hosted by the Museum für Naturkunde (one of CETAF's founding institutions), virtually, from the 2 to the 4th December 2020.

On the 12th of December the Antwerp Zoo Centre for Research and Conservation (CRC) will organise their annual ZOO Research symposium in Antwerp ZOO.

As usual, the symposium programme will provide an overview of ongoing research projects where the CRC is involved.

For further details on the agenda, you can find here below the programme for the day.

https://www.zooscience.be/files/download/crc-symposium-2019-schema.pdf

With the next Roadmap of European Research Infrastructures, foreseen for publication in 2021, ESFRI will end the second cycle of its Roadmaps, comprising the editions of 2006, 2008, 2010, 2016 and 2018. The last two editions have demonstrated clearly how the landscape of research infrastructures in Europe has evolved and matured.

The BIOTALENT EU Conference will be take place at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels on 30 July 2019.

During this a one-day event, we will present you the outcomes of the Erasmus+ BIOTALENT educational project. 

IPBES youth workshop

The workshop "Linking Open Science in Austria" is a joint workshop by OpenAIRE, e-infra austria, RDA Europe, RDA Austria, GO FAIR, Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research and the Vienna University Library.

The workshop aims to connect researchers, open science facilitators, research facilitators, repository managers, policy makers, funders and librarians at this 2-day event in Vienna, Austria with a strong focus on FAIR.

ESFRI will be organising a workshop on the connection of ESFRI Research Infrastructures (RIs) to the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) in London on 30 January 2019.  

The loss of biological diversity is one of the main environmental challenges facing the planet. The WWF’s Living Planet Report 2018 shows a 60% decline in size for mammals, birds, fish, reptiles and amphibians’ populations in only 40 years.