Upcoming events

Ahead of the submission deadline for the 2026 Graduate Researchers Award programme <>, this session brings together nodes from across the GBIF network to share experiences, practical guidance, and lessons learned from running country-level processes. The session will include discussion and a Q&A with the GBIF Secretariat to support national [...]

This workshop is a part of GBIF Capacity Enhancement Support Programme CESP2024-013
The workshop focuses on practical use of biodiversity data to support research, conservation, and decision-making in Ethiopia. Building on data mobilized through GBIF and national partners, it introduces tools, workflows, and real-world use cases that demonstrate [...]

This webinar, hosted by the GBIF Secretariat and the GBIF Regional Support Contractors, is aimed at supporting successful projects funded through the Biodiversity Information for Development (BID) Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) round.
The webinar covers essential information relating to the delivery of BID projects. Topics covered include support [...]

This webinar will introduce GBIF, including its governance structure, the benefits of participation and opportunities to engage in the global biodiversity data network. It is primarily intended for governments and organizations in the West Asia region that collect, manage and/or use biodiversity data. The webinar will also include an overview [...]

Join our first GBIF Data Use Club <> event of 2026 hosted by the GBIF Secretariat, highlighting best practices for using GBIF-mediated data.
The webinar will cover best practices for data transparency, ways to avoid unnecessary load on GBIF servers and how to appropriately credit original data providers through citations, [...]

The GBIF Asia Regional Support Team is organizing a virtual data use workshop to share knowledge of using the GBIF data infrastructure.
This course is designed for individuals who work as researchers or technicians in biodiversity research or policy institutions. The instruction provided is particularly useful for those who currently [...]

This five-day workshop will focus on practical data mobilization for Lithuania, guiding participants through the full process from identifying datasets to publishing them through GBIF.
The programme follows the workflow of data mobilization, including data discovery and assessment, data cleaning and standardization, metadata creation, application of Darwin Core standards, use [...]

A community call with network members who are currently running GBIF's hosted portal service <>.
The meeting provides updates on progress aligning GBIF.org and Hosted Portals, as well as addressing community feedback.
Anyone not currently involved in a hosted portal who wants to learn more can emailhostedportals@gbif.org to request [...]

Expanding on the Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative 's previous events (GSBI), the 4th Global Soil Biodiversity Conference in Victoria, Canada will convene the world’s leading experts in this interdisciplinary field of soil biodiversity science to present and discuss recent advances addressing the urgency of meeting global challenges which link to [...]

The GBIF Secretariat is organizing a capacity enhancement workshop on biodiversity data mobilization as part of theBID programme for representatives of projects selected under the BID Pacific call for proposals and relevant Samoan and regional partners. The workshop is hosted bySPREP in Apia, Samoa, 20-22 April 2026.
The [...]

In connection with the Annual Meeting of the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), a public symposium takes place at the Natural History Museum, on Wednesday 29 April.
The symposium is open to all attendees of the BHL Annual Meeting as well as others from the biodiversity community.
The symposium will be [...]

This conference brings together scholars, activists, and policymakers to consider this challenging landscape and discuss the future of open research. The goal is to facilitate the development of open research practices explicitly geared to serve the public interest, which involves interrogating what may constitute that ‘public interest’ to different audiences [...]

Join Biodiversa+, GBIF, MARCO-BOLO, BioAgora and Alliance for Nature from 4 to 8 May 2026 for the first BioMonWeek conference.
This event brings together Europe’s biodiversity monitoring community, including researchers, monitoring experts, policymakers, private sector professionals and students.
Conference themes will explore methods for strengthening transnational cooperation, harmonizing and standardizing [...]

The 18th meeting of the nodes of the GBIF Europe and Central Asia <> (ECA) region takes place in Montpellier, France on 4 May 2026. This full-day, in-person meeting is open to node managers from the region's participant nodes.
Main topics of the meeting include coordination of ECA nodes to [...]

The Nature Action Dialogues provide a unique and powerful forum where business, finance and conservation leaders meet as peers to advance collaboration at the nexus of biodiversity, climate, water, and health. This is a working space to accelerate change, shape leadership, and unlock sustainable growth while halting and reversing nature [...]

The GBIF Asia Regional Support Team is conducting a data mobilization workshop to address capacity needs and to promote data publication across the West Asia region.
The virtual workshop will be conducted across May and June 2026, and will be based on theGBIF Biodiversity Data Mobilization curriculum.
The aim [...]

The Swedish Climate Symposium is a national platform for advancing climate knowledge and action. It brings together researchers, policymakers, and societal stakeholders to explore the latest science, identify knowledge gaps, and solutions for climate adaptation and mitigation. Hosted by leading Swedish research organizations, the symposium fosters dialogue across disciplines and [...]

Under the theme of Leading Transformation Together, the fourth edition of the World Biodiversity Forum WBF takes place from Sunday, 14 June to Friday, 19 June 2026 in Davos, Switzerland.
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Meeting goals
* Strengthen the Asia GBIF community * Provide a forum for GBIF nodes in Asia and the GBIF Secretariat to share latest updates and best practices * Explore opportunities for synergies between existing and/or upcoming related regional initiatives and the GBIF network, e.g., through support of, or [...]

The conference aims to strengthen the Asia-Pacific regional mosquito and vector control capacity and network and review new technologies, AI for mosquito control, and approaches to address the rapidly changing landscape for mosquito control in the region.
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Uppsala University in collaboration with the Swedish Systematics Association are happy to announce the 4th BioSyst EU meeting: 17-19th of August 2026, in Uppsala Sweden.
The three day meeting will focus on talks and workshops on the topic of systematics and strengthening the collaboration and networks of systematists in Europe.

The Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) 2026 conference takes place in Oslo, Norway in September. This year, the conference is hosted byGBIF Norway , the University of Oslo Natural History Museum and the Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre .
TDWG's annual conferences provide a forum for developing, refining and extending TDWG [...]