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2011-02-16LifeWatch research infrastructure starts construction in 2011 - The initial country consortium establishing the LifeWatch research infrastructure agreed to finance ...
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2011-01-19LifeWatch Closing Event - On this page you can download all the slides presented at the closing event of the LifeWatch prepara...
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2011-01-17LifeWatch construction kicks off on January 19th - On 19 January 2011, at the closing conference of the LifeWatch preparatory project a first group of ...
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  • LifeWatch research infrastructure starts construction in 2011

    The initial country consortium establishing the LifeWatch research infrastructure agreed to finance the start-up activities for the infrastructure construction. These countries will host the Common Facilities of LifeWatch.

    On 19th January 2011 representatives from organisations in Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Romania and Spain signed a Memorandum of Understanding to cooperate for an early start of the LifeWatch infrastructure for biodiversity and ecosystem research.  The LifeWatch Stakeholders Board, representing the ten countries aiming at establishing the LifeWatch ERIC, welcomed the initiative to start early construction.

     

     On the photograph from left to right: Dr. Carlos Martínez Riera, Director General de Cooperación Internacional y Relaciones Institucionales, Ministerio de Innovación, Spain -- Prof. Dr. P.H. van Tienderen, Director of the Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands -- Dr Giuseppe Martini, Director Department of Life Sciences (for Prof. Luciano Maiani, President Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche), Italy -- Dr. Katalin Török, Director of the Institute of Ecology and Botany, Hungarian Academy of Sciences , Hungary -- Constatin Cazacu, LifeWatch Romania, University of Bucharest, Romania.

     

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"LifeWatch Supporting Project" Label PDF Print

LifeWatch applicationsResearchers frequently ask how they can be involved in the development process of the LifeWatch research infrastructure. Indeed, the European scientific and technical community has much to offer. Although LifeWatch cannot provide direct funding, many countries are involved in its preparatory phase. It may therefore may be of some advantage to your project if it is seen to be supporting the development of LifeWatch. It is now possible to request a label as LifeWatch Supporting project for projects which clearly contribute to the LifeWatch infrastructure development. The affiliated project has the right to use the LifeWatch logo in all project communications and is valid for the agreed project duration. LifeWatch lists the affiliation on this website.
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TWReferenceNET: a LifeWatch Supporting Project PDF Print

TWReferenceNET is an example of an international LifeWatch Supporting Project focused on the conservation and management of biodiversity in the Mediterranean and Black Sea lagoons. At the completion in 2006 the project has developed a transitional water data platform on flora and invertebrate fauna of the Eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea lagoons. This platform produces tangible services for targeted lagoon ecosystem stakeholders. TWReferenceNET is a data provider for the LifeWatch structure, and represents one of the show cases (Lagoon Networks show case) on how LifeWatch could operate.

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"Through our Memorandum of Cooperation GBIF and LifeWatch, based on our respective complementary mandates, now have a formal framework for co-operation and collaboration on infrastructural developments, building on GBIF’s 10 years of investment to date."

Dr. Nick King
Director Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)


 

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