Scope
The purpose of this 2-day meeting is to:
1) Advance in the coordination and implementation of tasks and activities foreseen by the H2020 ENVRI-FAIR project in WP9 and WP11;
2) Highlight synergies among Work Packages and with other LifeWatch ERIC Initiatives;
3) Solve possible bottlenecks.
Location
Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ)
Spuikom & De Noordzee conference rooms – InnovOcean site (entrance: warehouse 61)
Wanderlaarkaai 7
8400 Ostend
Belgium
Registration is free of charge and compulsory, please click here.
ScopeCompleting final scientific & users’ requirements to advance in the ICT developments for Workflows on Non indigenous-Invasive (Alien) Species -NIS- of the Internal Joint Initiative (IJI).
The purpose of this 2-day meeting is:
1) To go over IJI Workflow #1 ARMS+ ASSEMBLE final version review & approval.
2) To discuss other issues: Tesseracto_VRE & rest of workflows (#2 to #6) developments progress, etc.
When
16-17/03/2020
Where
Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ)
Spuikom & De Noordzee conference rooms – InnovOcean site (entrance: warehouse 61)
Wanderlaarkaai 7
8400 Ostend
Belgium
How to reach us? Click here
Agenda
Coming soon!
More info
https://www.lifewatch.eu/web/guest/iji-workflows-technical-meeting
Melbourne, Australia, 18-20 March 2020. The Research Data Alliance (RDA) 15th Plenary Meeting, with the theme “Data for Real-World Impact”, will take place at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC). The event will be hosted by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) with the support of the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC).
As one of the founding regions of RDA in 2013, Australia has always been a strong supporter and driver of RDA. Organising the Plenary meeting in Australia offers regional researchers and data professionals an opportunity to engage and work with the RDA community, as well as offering the international data community the unique chance to learn more about the exciting activities and developments in the Australian data landscape.
The RDA Plenary Meeting will be organised in conjunction with the annual Collaborative Conference on Computational and Data Intensive Science (3CDIS) taking place in Melbourne on 16 – 18 March 2020. C3DIS aims to build a national community of practice of scientists, researchers, and computing, data and information management specialists. All of these professionals share a common interest: the production of breakthrough science outcomes that require large scale, complex computations and analyses to be carried out over massive data sets.
For more information on the RDA 15th Plenary Meeting, click here.
Online, 5–8 May 2020. The ENVRI community has organised a virtual campaign to replace the originally planned Townhall meeting at #EGU20. Come to the ENVRI Twitter or YouTube channel, or here on the website each day from Tuesday 5 to Thursday 7 May at 1:00pm CEST and discuss with us questions, like:
• Who pays in the Open Science environment?
• What does Open Science mean for your career?
• What are the technological challenges of Open Science?
• What does the future hold for scientific data?
One video will be released each day to probe into the key issues in Open Science in Geosciences:
• On Tuesday May 5th, Wouter Los will talk about the idea of COMMON DATA MARKETPLACE
• On Wednesday 6th, Sarah Callaghan, the editor-in-chief of the open access journal Patterns, will speak about the OPEN ACCESS BUSINESS MODEL
• On Thursday 7th, Daniele Bailo will talk about the TECHNOLOGY CHALLENGES OF OPEN SCIENCE.
Come and join in, question and discuss the key issues you have with open science in Geosciences at ENVRI community Twitter channel or under each video published on the ENVRI YouTube channel.
You will be able to raise any question or start a discussion from 1pm CEST after the videos are published – the speakers and other ENVRI colleagues will be eager to talk to you and answer your questions.
Due to the current global COVID-19 crisis, the Empowering Biodiversity Research Conference has been postponed to 2021.
Tervuren, Belgium, 14-15 May 2020. Five years after the “Empowering Biodiversity Research” conference organized in May 2015, we would like to invite to the 2020 Conference on Biodiversity Informatics, for a new journey into the world of biodiversity data standards and tools. Projects that started five years ago are about to deliver what was promised and many new biodiversity informatics related projects have launched since then. Concepts such as Open Data, Open Access and Open Science are now increasingly recognised across disciplines and are changing the way science is conducted.
The time has come to find out what happened since our last conference! Let’s also look together at what is likely to happen next in the world of Biodiversity Informatics! So get ready for this fascinating conference which will take place at the AfricaMuseum, Tervuren, Belgium, on 14 and 15 May 2020. The objectives of the conference are to:
LifeWatch Belgium is one of the organisers, along with the Belgian Biodiversity Platform, the AfricaMuseum, the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), the Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO), the Meise Botanic Garden (Meise), Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Université of Liège (ULiège), the VIB and the Belgian Science Policy Office (Belspo).
For more information visit the conference website, click here for the programme, check out the before and after workshops, or go dirctly to registrations.
Online, 15 May 2020. Research infrastructures are key elements in providing the necessary data and services for European scientists to conduct cutting-edge research in a variety of scientific fields and for European business to develop new products and services. They give us tools to understand better our universe, our planet and ourselves as humans.
The overall objective of this fully digital European Research Infrastructures for a Smarter Future conference, hosted by the Croatian Presidency of the Council of the EU, and open to all participants, is to explore the potential of European Research Infrastructures to make a meaningful impact on the European strategic agendas and identify the ways in which this could be achieved.
The Smarter Future conference will provide a platform for discussion and dialogue between policy, research and industry stakeholders on the changes that are necessary to address the big challenges of our times. It will also increase the visibility of opportunities provided by Research Infrastructures and promote partnership between business and academia.
Registrations are now open for anyone who wants to help provide a new impetus for European research infrastructure policy, and support the full realisation of the potential of the European Research Area to drive the necessary changes in our economy and society. Click here for ESFRI website and here for the full agenda.
Online, 26 May 2020. LifeWatch ERIC will hold its 6th General Assembly by teleconference. This is in line with the social distancing and restrictions on movement imposed because of the pandemic.
Ljubljana, Slovenia, 27-29 May 2020 was the original plan for the LifeWatch ERIC BEes Conference, which has been postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. It is not possible to organise an international conference and ensure the safety of participants in the current conditions, and we are following the guidance of national and global health advice.
Please do not to make any travel or accomodationn arrangements for this event. We thank all you potential participants for your patience and interest, but now is the time for us all to put our strengths together to fight this pandemic. New dates and conference details will be communicated as soon as possible.
14 – 15 September, 2020, online. This first ever ERIC Forum policy seminar will focus on funding models for access to ERIC multinational/ transnational services. It will provide a unique opportunity for EU and national policy makers to open a dialogue with the ERIC community regarding the sustainability of ERICs and Research Infrastructures, discussing and sharing experiences in the use of the existing funding mechanisms that support access to the services provided by ERICs.
Through its various sessions, the meeting aims to discuss the opportunities ahead and build recommendations to optimize the use of ERICs as instruments for transnational cooperation. The meeting will be attended by high level EU and national decision makers, including Jean-Eric Paquet, Director General of DG Research and Innovation (DG RTD). These details are availble on the ERIC Forum site.
Click here to register and please note that an email will be sent to participants with access details, as the number of places is limited.
Go to the draft agenda and background information by clicking here.
Bolzano, Italy, 16 September, 2020. The S4BioDiv 3rd International Workshop on Semantics for Biodiversity has issued a call for papers. Authors are invited to submit for inclusion topics related the application and development of semantic technologies to support research in the biodiversity and related domains. In the light of the coronavirus crisis, the conference may need to be held virtually. The final format of the conference will be determined in June 2020.
The workshop, which is supported by LifeWatch ERIC, aims to bring together computer scientists and biologists, working on Semantic Web approaches for biodiversity, ecology and related areas such as plant sciences, agronomy, agroecology or citizen science related to biodiversity. The focus will be on presenting challenging issues and solutions for the design of high-quality biodiversity information systems leveraging Semantic Web techniques.
Click here for conference details and important dates.
The Bulgarian National Distributed Centre is represented by the Agricultural University-Plovdiv.
To know more about how Bulgaria contributes to LifeWatch ERIC, please visit our dedicated webpage.
The Spanish National Distributed Centre is supported by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, the Regional Government of Andalusia and the Guadalquivir River Basin Authority (Ministry for Ecological Transition-MITECO). Moreover, Spain is the hosting Member State of LifeWatch ERIC, the location of its Statutory Seat & ICT e-Infrastructure Technical Office (LifeWatch ERIC Common Facilities).
To know more about how Spain contributes to LifeWatch ERIC, please visit our dedicated webpage.
The Slovenian National Distributed Centre is led by the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU). It focuses on the development of technological solutions in the field of biodiversity and socio-ecosystem research.
To know more about how Slovenia contributes to LifeWatch ERIC, please visit our dedicated webpage.
The Portuguese National Distributed Centre is managed by PORBIOTA, the Portuguese e-Infrastructure for Information and Research on Biodiversity. Led by BIOPOLIS/CIBIO-InBIO – Research Centre in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources, PORBIOTA connects the principal Portuguese research institutions working in biodiversity.
To know more about how Portugal contributes to LifeWatch ERIC, please visit our dedicated webpage.
The Dutch National Distributed Centre is hosted by the Faculty of Science of the University of Amsterdam. Moreover, The Netherlands hosts one of the LifeWatch ERIC Common Facilities, the Virtual Laboratory and Innovation Centre.
To know more about how The Netherlands contributes to LifeWatch ERIC, please visit our dedicated webpage.
The Italian National Distributed Centre is led and managed by the Italian National Research Council (CNR) and is coordinated by a Joint Research Unit, currently comprising 35 members. Moreover, Italy hosts one of the LifeWatch ERIC Common Facilities, the Service Centre.
To know more about how Italy contributes to LifeWatch ERIC, please visit our dedicated webpage.
The Greek National Distributed Centre is funded by the Greek General Secretariat of Research and Technology and is coordinated by the Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture of the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, in conjunction with 47 associated partner institutions.
To know more about how Greece contributes to LifeWatch ERIC, please visit our dedicated webpage.
The Belgian National Distributed Centre makes varied and complementary in-kind contributions to LifeWatch ERIC. These are implemented in the form of long-lasting projects by various research centres and universities distributed throughout the country and supported by each respective political authority.
To know more about how Belgium contributes to LifeWatch ERIC, please visit our dedicated webpage.