News
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09th Nov, 2018
The 2019 open digital science week on biological and geological diversity, biodiversity_next, is calling for symposia, workshops & events.
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07th Nov, 2018
In the wake of the tragedy that occurred at the Museu Nacional in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in September 2018, when a fire devastated large parts of the museum and collections, CETAF has received a passionate plea for help from the museum's department of vertebrates.
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05th Nov, 2018
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05th Nov, 2018
The upcoming 44th Meeting of the CETAF Governing Board will take place on 14-15 November 2018 at the Plant Science and Biodiversity Centre of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratsilava, Solvakia.
Director Anna Beresova and CETAF Chair Michelle J. Price are inviting CETAF Directors and representatives, and other invited guests, to join the meeting.
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23rd Oct, 2018
ICEDIG, a European project with strong involvement from CETAF and its member institutions, promotes innovation and consolidation in digitisation of Natural History Collections by making its project results openly available for all interested readers.
New outcomes will be published intermittently on the ICEDIG website and other Academic Social Networks such as ResearchGate or Zenodo as soon as they become available.
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11th Sep, 2018
On Tuesday 11 September DiSSCO was officially introduced as a priority Research Infrastructure on the 2018 European roadmap during the ESFRI Launch Ceremony at the Aula der Wissenschaften in Vienna.
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21st Aug, 2018
Great news reached the CETAF offices late last week as two more of the projects proposals CETAF had teamed up for haven been successfully evaluated for funding by the European Commission. Both projects, SYNTHESYS+ and ENVRI-FAIR will in their own ways contribute to the further development of the research landscape in the environmental domain and support the development of the research infrastructure DiSSCo.
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13th Jul, 2018
SAVE THE DATE: From 21 to 25 October 2019, CETAF will, together with DiSSCo, TDWG, and GBIF organise the BIODIVERSITY_NEXT conference at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden, The Netherlands.
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04th Jul, 2018
Late on Friday (29/06) afternoon CETAF received the great news that ESFRI has formally accepted the DiSSCo initiative on its 2018 roadmap update, making European Natural Science Collection a recognised priority research infrastructure, supporting scientific excellence and innovation towards urgent societal challenges.
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27th Jun, 2018