The GBIF Secretariat calls for applications from Participants seeking support to organize regional training activities in 2012.

GBIF Participants are invited to apply for financial support of up to 5000 EUR per event, to be used exclusively to enable regional participation in their events, by representatives of GBIF Participants from the region. These may be either trainers or trainees.

Support provided is intended to facilitate the GBIF regionalization strategy, which encourages Participants to collaborate on joint activities. This strategy enables node managers to participate more actively in GBIF, and promotes the identification of common needs, priorities and opportunities based on similarities and existing regional collaboration processes.  

Among the training events supported in 2011 were a training workshop on species catalogues for Latin America, organized by GBIF Spain and the Latin American Platform for Biodiversity Information (PIIB) in Uruguay, and a training workshop on biological georeferencing by the South African Biodiversity Information Facility organized for African nodes.

GBIF Participants interested in organizing a training event with a regional component must contact potential partners in their region beforehand and agree on possible dates, venue and host institution. Applications may be sent to training_@If you can read this, please upgrade to a modern browser.gbif.org by the Head of a Delegation or node manager by 24 February 2012.

For further details, please download the full call for applications. The application form and report template are also available online.

For further information, contact:
Alberto González Talaván
Senior Programme Officer for Training
GBIF Secretariat
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