Meeting
DiSSCo Prepare’s first All Hands meeting!

For an entire week, experts in the areas of governance, business, technology, services, big data, and policies will take part in more than 20 working sessions to discuss and produce key elements of what will become Europe’s leading natural science collections Research Infrastructure, DiSSCo RI.
CETAF-DiSSCo COVID-19 Task Force Public event - 17 July 2020, at 14h00 (CEST time)

After three months of intense and collaborative work, the CETAF-DiSSCo Task Force is ready to present the current outcomes of the dedicated groups of volunteers.
ELIXIR All Hands Keynote II - Dimitris Koureas: Electric Butterflies, from field to bytes and back
What is a digital museum specimen? How can it be used to reunite biological information such as molecular, morphological, ecological and taxonomic data? How do we bring 1.5 billion specimens and hundreds of museums into the world of Open Science ?
E-SCoRE CETAF Award first Edition
WeDigBio Lite online event

Community scientists together to empower a global and collaborative digitization platform
Join WeDigBio Lite event from 16 to 19 April 2020!
2020 Digital Data Conference going Digital

Indiana University in collaboration with iDigBio of the Florida Museum of Natural History, and the Natural Science Collections Alliance is pleased to announce the fourth annual Digital Data in Biodiversity Research Conference is being converted to digital format, still to be held 1-3 June 2020.
Workshop on transformative change in the global post-2020 Biodiversity Framework
Transformative change should help achieving the objectives of the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Sustainable Development Goals, the Paris Agreement and other multilateral agreements.
Purpose of this workshop to discuss how the concept of Transformative Change can be translated into concrete actions, goals, targets and pathways for the global post-2020 Biodiversity Framework. Target audience are EU Member State delegates negotiating the framework. Delegates from non-EU countries will also attend.
Environment: how to achieve the objectives set for 2030 and 2050?
Dr Hans Bruyninckx, Director of the European Environment Agency
In its report "The European Environment, State and Outlook 2020", the European Environment Agency has established the main trends that will prevail in the future and has identified the elements that are essential for the implementation of a sustainable transition.
World Biodiversity Forum 2020