The 4th GBIF training in ENM was attended by 24 participants from around the world. They were nominated by GBIF Heads of Delegations, because these training sessions are capacity building events that benefit GBIF members. The workshop greatly benefitted from the superb organization and logistics provided by the local Polish hosts.

Based on the evaluations made at the end of the course, we can say that the participants were extremely satisfied with this training, even though it was a week of very long hours. They gave very high marks to the faculty, the contents of the course, the hands-on exercises and the running of projects.

Ecological Niche Modeling (ENM) uses primary occurrence data, such as that served by the GBIF data portal and relates it to ecological and environmental data.

ENM is proving to be a very valuable tool for decision-making in many fields: predicting impacts of global climate change on biodiversity, assessing the geographic potential of alien invasive species, tracking the spread of diseases and risk of disease transmission, identifying suitable locations for protected areas and assessing the likelihood of finding rare/endemic species.