Upcoming events

About Data Fika is a GBIF Sweden online webinar series for the Swedish biodiversity data community running from September 2026 to June 2027. Across ten sessions the series follows the biodiversity data journey from finding and reusing GBIF-mediated data to data quality standards metadata FAIR and CARE principles and publishing [...]

About Data Fika is a GBIF Sweden online webinar series for the Swedish biodiversity data community running from September 2026 to June 2027. Across ten sessions the series follows the biodiversity data journey from finding and reusing GBIF-mediated data to data quality standards metadata FAIR and CARE principles and [...]

From 19 to 30 October 2026, the Republic of Armenia will host the Seventeenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP17), bringing together in Yerevan representatives of governments from around the world, international organizations, the scientific community, civil society, Indigenous [...]

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 [...]

This webinar is associated with the BID project exploring macrofauna and earthworms in Africa and Latin America . This event brings together parters from around the world to discuss topics such as data governance and sovereignty in connection to the project.

Are you new to the community? Unsure of how to get started with contributing translations? Or do you just need a reminder of how Crowdin works? Please join our translator (re)introduction call on Wednesday 4 November 2026 at 14:00 CET (UTC+1) We will cover all the basics of doing [...]

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 Africa call for proposals and relevant regional partners. The workshop is hosted bySANBI in Cape Town, South Africa on 5-7 November 2026. [...]

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 [...]

The GBIF Regional Support Team for Europe and Central Asia is organizing a virtual training workshop on biodiversity data mobilization and publication to strengthen the capacity of institutions in SE Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia to mobilize, manage and publish biodiversity data through GBIF. The workshop is based on [...]

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 priorities [...]

Session 3 of Data Fika, GBIF Sweden's monthly online series on biodiversity data. What the Darwin Core columns in your download mean — TDWG standards, persistent identifiers (UUIDs, RORs, ORCIDs, DOIs), metadata and ISO formats.

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). The webinar covers essential information relating to the delivery of BID projects. Topics covered include: * Support available for project implementation * Capacity [...]

GBIF has launched a new version of GBIF.org <>, consolidating developments around taxonomic backbone handling, event data exploration, improved search and download, web stack consistency and custom data dashboards. Our last Data Use Club <> session explored the new search features for datasets, taxa and occurrences,spatial searches and the new [...]

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 [...]

Session 4 of Data Fika, GBIF Sweden's monthly online series on biodiversity data. How GBIF represents occurrences, events and measurements — sample vs presence-only data, long vs wide format, SQL for cubes, and data management basics.

The British Ecological Society (BES) Annual Meeting 2026 takes place in Birmingham, UK from 14-17 December 2026. The program offers internationally renowned plenary speakers, diverse thematic sessions, engaging workshops and a variety of networking events. Early bird registration is open until 3 November 2026. Learn more

BES 2026 is Europe's largest and most welcoming conference dedicated to ecology. Founded over a century ago, the BES was the first Society in the world committed to understanding our earth through ecology, the science studying the relationship between living things and their environment. That commitment remains today with a [...]

Session 5 of Data Fika, GBIF Sweden's monthly online series on biodiversity data. Coordinate validation with CoordinateCleaner, taxonomic name resolution (Dyntaxa vs the GBIF backbone), date parsing, duplicates and encoding issues.

Session 6 of Data Fika, GBIF Sweden's monthly online series on biodiversity data. Cleaned ≠ fit for your question — spatial, temporal and taxonomic bias, presence-only pitfalls, basisOfRecord filtering and coordinate uncertainty.

Session 7 of Data Fika, GBIF Sweden's monthly online series on biodiversity data. The Creative Commons family and GBIF's three licences — plus Artportalen's protected-species generalisation, GDPR and data agreements.

Session 8 of Data Fika, GBIF Sweden's monthly online series on biodiversity data. FAIR as practical implementation, and CARE as a governance framework — grounded in Swedish collections' holdings and Sámi data governance.

Session 9 of Data Fika, GBIF Sweden's monthly online series on biodiversity data. How collection data becomes a published GBIF dataset — Darwin Core mapping, extensions, metadata and licensing, with a look at the IPT.

Session 10 of Data Fika, GBIF Sweden's monthly online series on biodiversity data. A capstone tying the series together: download, clean, check fitness, integrate, produce a figure and document it reproducibly — and cite everything.