Upcoming events

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 [...]

The 18th meeting of the nodes of the GBIF Europe and Central Asia <> (ECA) region takes place in Montpellier, France on 4 May 2026 from 9-17. 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 [...]

The GBIF Africa Regional Support Team will organize a virtual data mobilisation training workshop in French to strengthen the capacity of francophone institutions in Africa to mobilize and publish biodiversity data through GBIF.
The workshop follows the GBIF Biodiversity Data Mobilization curriculum and will cover key steps of the data [...]

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 GBIF Office Hours for Europe & Central Asia are monthly, one hour online sessions where the GBIF ECA support team is present live to provide direct, practical support to data publishers and data users across the region.
The format is intentionally open, informal, and flexible. Some sessions may begin [...]

This two-day workshop focuses on the mobilization, standardization and publication of metabarcoding data through GBIF.
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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.
Conducted over the course of May and June 2026, this virtual workshop will be based on theGBIF Biodiversity Data Mobilization curriculum. .
The aim [...]

IAIA26 offers conference sessions, training courses, sponsored meetings, technical visits, and networking events that promote learning and professional connections. One- and two-day training courses take place in the days leading up to the conference, led by experienced instructors and covering a wide range of topics.
The program features over 120 [...]

The seventh TaxonWorks Together conference is happening online from 19-21 May 2026.
Join the TaxonWorks Together group for three days of activities centered around building the collective TaxonWorks community within the broader context of biodiversity informatics around the world, highlighting what's new, changed and on the horizon.
Activities at the [...]

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 [...]

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 Latin America & the Caribbean call for proposals and relevant regional partners. The workshop is hosted byMinistry of the Environment in Montevideo, [...]

Meeting goals
* Support regional coordination, led by the regional representatives * Facilitate regional collaboration by allowing nodes to share updates on their activities, receive peer feedback, and discuss joint project proposals throughCESP and other programmes * Provide feedback to the Secretariat and NSG on regional issues and [...]

You are invited to a hands-on online workshop on the Global Registry of Scientific Collections (GRSciColl) – the international catalogue that makes your institution’s collections discoverable to researchers worldwide. Whether your collections are fully digitized or still entirely physical, this workshop will help you put them on the global map. [...]

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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The GBIF Africa Regional Support Team will organize a virtual training workshop on biodiversity data mobilization in English to strengthen the capacity of institutions in Africa to mobilize, manage, and publish biodiversity data through GBIF.
The workshop is based on the GBIF Biodiversity Data Mobilization curriculum and will guide participants [...]

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 Global Nature Positive Summit 2026 is an international event focused on accelerating efforts to implement the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), agreed by 196 countries in 2022 with a commitment to halt and reverse nature loss by 2030.
The Summit aims to showcase strategies and road maps toward delivering [...]

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 aim of this workshop is to introduce participants to modern methods for publishing and analyzing vegetation-plot data, using open-source data and software.
Course overview
* Introduction to the Czech Vegetation Database , an example of a fully open vegetation database (M. Chytrý) * Vegetation data manipulation and processing [...]

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 [...]

Hosted in partnership with the MTS eDNA Committee and the University of Washington’s eDNA Collaborative , the conference will convene a global community of eDNA enthusiasts from across economic sectors to build connections, learn from one another, and further advance eDNA science.
The global conference will feature three days [...]

Planetary change is transforming ecosystems, oceans and global biogeochemical cycles. Yet the biological responses to environmental stress begin at a much smaller scale: the cell. Cells are the first responders to environmental change, regulating how organisms adapt, interact with symbiotic partners, and survive shifting conditions. Understanding these mechanisms is essential [...]

The 10th International Barcode of Life Conference will take place in Bangkok, Thailand. This in-person conference provides a unique opportunity to exchange and disseminate cutting-edge scientific knowledge about the latest DNA barcoding and metabarcoding advancements for species identification.
Monday 2 November GBIF facilitates a hands-on workshop on how to [...]