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CETAF joins the Crete Declaration to advance One Health across Europe
December 4, 2025CETAF has formally joined the Crete Declaration, a new European commitment uniting major research infrastructures, organisations, and scientific projects to advance the One Health approach—a framework recognising the deep interconnection between the health of humans,...
EU launches new pollinator monitoring method with CETAF support
December 3, 2025The European Commission has officially published the Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2025/2188, establishing a science-based methodology to monitor pollinator diversity and pollinator populations across Europe. This milestone Delegated Act supplements Regulation (EU) 2024/1991 and marks...
New strategy for natural history collections in Switzerland
November 26, 2025Thirty-seven institutions, take a decisive step towards unlocking the full potential of natural history collections in Switzerland. Together, they publish and endorse a strategy based on 6 pillars and 52 key activities to better preserve...
COP30 delivers landmark results amid unprecedented geopolitical tensions
November 23, 2025Belém, 23 November 2025. At a moment widely recognized as the most geopolitically challenging and fragile for the Paris Agreement since its adoption a decade ago, COP30 approved a robust package of decisions that fulfilled...
Liberating Data: Insights from Laurence Bénichou at the Berlin Training Workshop
November 18, 2025Berlin, 11 November 2025. The recent Data Liberation Workshop, organised in collaboration with DEST (Distributed European School of Taxonomy of CETAF), the European Journal of Taxonomy (EJT), Plazi, and GBIF, brought together experts and trainees...
Safeguarding Scientific Integrity: Insights from the CETAF 2nd Directors’ Summit
November 12, 2025Berlin, 12 November 2025. One of the central highlights of the CETAF 2nd Directors’ Summit in Berlin—hosted by the Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin / Freie Universität Berlin—was a high-level panel dedicated to examining how...