The Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin and the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin will be hosting the 31st Annual Meeting of the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC), from 20 June through 25 June 2016, in Berlin, Germany.

The Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin and the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin are organising the 2016 GGBN conference, held from June 21 through June 24, 2016, in Berlin, Germany.

NatSCA, the UK based Natural Sciences Collections Association, will be holding their next annual conference & AGM on 21 & 22 April 2016. The event will be hosted by Derby Museums, and take place at The Silk Mill and Derby Museum & Art Gallery.

ISBER, the International Society for Biological and Environmental Repositories, is organising its annual meeting and exhibits this Spring 2016 in Berlin.

ISBER 2016 Key Dates:
    Abstract Submission Opens: September 1, 2015
    Abstract Submission Closes: December 4, 2015
    Early Bird Registration Deadline: February 8, 2016

More information: http://www.isber.org/?page=ISBER2016

The DG Environment of the European Commission is organising its first meeting of the ABS Consultation Forum on 21st January 2015.
CETAF has been accepted as a member of the Forum and two people from our core Team working on ABS (Legislation & Regulation Working Group) will participate in this event.

The day will be dedicated to the recently adopted Work Programme 2016-2017 under Horizon 2020.

ENVRIplus is organising its ENVRI week, a week dedicated to Environmental Research Infrastructures.

This year, the week will be organised in Prague, Czech Republic, from 16-20th November 2015.

The venue of the meeting is: HOTEL INTERNATIONAL PRAGUE.

The registration is now closed.

For more info and details on ENVRI week registration please send an e-mail to: ENVRIplus-coordination@helsinki.fi.

e-Infrastructures in Belgium: What we have and what we need

Go4 JOINT FINAL CONFERENCE: “Responsible Research and Innovation in Europe and across the World -Shaping new Horizons”

The Go4 projects – GREAT, Res-Agora, Responsibility, and ProGReSS -  the projects funded in February 2013 under the FP7 SiS work programme 2011, will present the results of their work and research in a joint event that will take place in Brussels next year, on January 2016.

An Info Day aims at informing potential applicants about the Responsible Research and Innovation - Social Sciences and Humanities (RRI-SSH) approach in the ICT-related parts of the Work Programmes 2016-2017 of Horizon 2020.

Venue: Berlaymont Building, Salle WHALL, Rue de la Loi 200, B-1049 Brussels, Belgium

Organiser: European Commission

Those interested in submitting the project proposals with a RRI-SSH dimension for ICT-related Horizon 2020 calls having a deadline in 2016 are invited to participate in an Info-Day.