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 [...]

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 [...]

The first European Specify Summit aims to establish a European Specify community. The program will include talks and discussions on the community's aims, governance, working group topics etc. We will also focus on identifying benefits of being part of a European community, as well as shared challenges and priorities. Registration [...]

This kick-off meeting for the CESP project <> DwC-DACK brings CMS developers, DiSSCo, GBIF Nodes and partners together to refine our technical roadmap, select target CMS instances and establish our path toward the March 2027 Leiden Hackathon. Meeting details: Project ID: CESP2026-014 Date: Sunday, 27 September 2026 Time: 12:00 – [...]

The 33rd meeting of the GBIF Governing Board and associated events take place in Oslo, Norway. * 28 September 2026 Monday: Committees and Icebreaker * 29 September 2026 Tuesday: GB33 Day 1 * 30 September Wednesday: GB33 Day 2 - Hosted dinner * 01 October Thursday: GB33 Day 3 * [...]

This event is open to the public. Join in-person or through live-streaming. The GBIF Science Symposium is an annual event held alongside the meeting of the GBIF Governing Board. The 2026 symposium in Oslo, “GBIF at 25 — From Open Data to Living Knowledge,” also marks GBIF’s 25th anniversary, [...]

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 international theoretical and practical training course is part of the GBIF thematic inter-institutional network and the project "Geographic distribution of ticks (Acari: Ixodida) of public health and veterinary importance for Latin America and the Caribbean <>". The course will strengthen taxonomic capacity for the morphological identification of hard ticks [...]

Hosted by Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR) Centre for Resilience Studies, this training is designed to equip participants to transform raw field data into standardised, globally accessible GBIF datasets, bridging local ecological monitoring with international reporting requirements. By mastering structured biodiversity informatics, participants will support KMGBF Targets (15, 20, and 21) [...]

Join us for the next Technical Support Hour for GBIF nodes on October 7th at 4:00 pm CEST, where the topic will be the nucleotide sequence search. Cecilie Svenningsen from the GBIF secretariat will present this functionality that lets users search similar occurrence records by DNA sequences of up to [...]

Session 2 of Data Fika, GBIF Sweden's monthly online series on biodiversity data. Website downloads, rgbif, pygbif and the API — reproducible downloads and their DOIs, cubes, Darwin Core Archives, and when to use SBDI vs GBIF.org.

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 [...]

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 [...]

This open seminar explores how publishing and using biodiversity data through GBIF can support research, collaboration, environmental monitoring and decision-making. Drawing on examples from Lithuania and the wider region, participants will discuss the benefits and practical challenges of data publishing, emerging approaches to biodiversity data use and priorities for strengthening [...]

This high-level meeting brings together policymakers, research institutions, museums, biodiversity data holders and international experts to discuss the development of Lithuania’s national biodiversity information infrastructure. Participants will examine the role of biodiversity data in policy and decision-making, the benefits of participation in GBIF and opportunities to improve national coordination, data [...]

Are you a professional working with object-related data from scientific collections, looking to interact with fellow data enthusiasts and share project insights? Consider registering for the upcoming conference “Beyond drawers and spreadsheets: the journey of object-related data,” organized by theWiNoDa Knowledge Lab and taking place 21 October 2026, in [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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.

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.