Coming events

The International Conference on Research Infrastructures is the major professional forum for the global research infrastructure community. ICRI 2024 will bring together policymakers, research institution leaders, facility operators, users and researchers, to discuss pressing topics of interest, trends and challenges facing research infrastructures around the world.
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Join us for an end-of-year special technical support hour for GBIF nodes on December 4th, 2024, at 4 pm CET, where we will cover some of the more curious cases and questions we have received in helpdesk, during the last year. We will show examples and provide tips and tricks [...]

Join us for the December Data Use Club <> to hear about the research of the two 2024GBIF Graduate Researchers Award <> winners. The Graduate Researchers Award (formerly Young Researchers Award) is an annual scholarship programme that promotes and encourages innovation in biodiversity-related research using data shared through the GBIF [...]

IPBES 11 will be preceded by regional consultations and a Stakeholder Day on 9 December 2024. Further information on these events will follow in due course.
At IPBES 11, the Plenary will consider, among other items, the thematic assessment of the interlinkages among biodiversity, water, food and health (nexus assessment), [...]

Join us for an update on the Global Registry of Scientific Collections (GRSciColl).
In this community call, we will discuss our road map for 2025 which will focus on improving the GRSciColl content and build a stronger community. Come and listen to our ideas and give us your feedback. [...]

The Biodiversity Information for Development <> programme (BID) is entering a new phase (August 2024–July 2029) that will include actions in the Latin America and Caribbean region, such as capacity development workshops and calls for project proposals, aimed at standardizing and publishing biodiversity data via GBIF. The programme seeks to [...]

The next Africa region webinar will take place December 13 3:00-4:00 PM Central Africa Time / 4:00-5:00 PM East Africa Time.
This webinar will explore key initiatives aimed at strengthening skills and knowledge in biodiversity data management and use. Participants will discover opportunities such as the GBIF Data Use Club, [...]

This will be the 42nd conference of the Swedish Oikos Society, and the sixth time it is hosted in Stockholm.
The conference will gather researchers and students from across Sweden to share ideas and discoveries in ecological research, and solutions for our changing world. We will cover a diverse range [...]

BIOSPACE25 is the first international conference exclusively dedicated to the application of Satellite Remote Sensing (SRS) across the various dimensions of biodiversity, and addressing the use of Earth Observations in all realms, from terrestrial, freshwater, coastal to marine ecosystems.
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An international conference for advancing our understanding of ecosystems within a pan-European network of sites, platforms, researchers, and stakeholders to facilitate collaborative, inter- and transdisciplinary science including biogeoscience, biodiversity research, and social ecology (Conference programme under development).
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The Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting is being held Aug 10-15, 2025 in Baltimore, MD. This year's meeting theme isEcology is Everywhere.
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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 [...]