Transnational
Access Grants to Member Institutions
A number of CETAF members, or national
consortia in which CETAF members play leading roles, have,
since 1998, received support through the European Commission’s
Framework Programmes to enhance transnational access to
their collections, equipment and expertise.
CETAF Initiatives SYNTHESYS: Synthesis of Systematic Resources.
A CETAF Integrated Infrastructure Initiative (EU 6th Framework Programme). 2004 - 2009.
Aims: 1) To provide transnational access grants to 20 CETAF natural history museums and botanical gardens, and 2) to carry out Networking Activities focused on creating a single "virtual" museum service. EDIT: Towards the European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy.
A CETAF Network of Excellence in Taxonomy (EU 6th Framework Programme). 2006-2011.
Aims: To integrate taxonomic effort within the European Research Area and to build a world leading capacity. The project will create a European virtual centre of excellence (EDIT), which will increase both the scientific basis and capacity for biodiversity conservation.
CETAF Related Research Projects ENBI: European Network
for Biodiversity Information
Aims: to make biodiversity data accessible
through an integrated shared information infrastructure
ENHSIN: European Natural History Specimen Information Network
Aims: to enable the development of a shared,
interoperable infrastructure of natural history specimen
databases in European institutions BioCASE: A Biological
Collection Access Service for Europe
Aims: to establish a web-based information
service providing users with unified access to biological
collections in Europe FAUNA EUROPAEA
Aims: to assemble a database of the scientific
names and distribution of all living multicellular European
land and fresh-water animals Euro+Med PlantBase
The Euro+Med PlantBase provides an on-line
database and information system for the vascular plants
of Europe and the Mediterranean region.
