Events to be held in Taipei, Kampala, Kathmandu and Bogotá will benefit from the support.
Four regional training events organized by Participants will receive support from the GBIF Secretariat in 2012. The results were announced following a selection of applications from GBIF Participants seeking support to organize regional training activities this year.
It is expected that 16 GBIF Participants will directly benefit from these support grants and will provide outreach opportunities to nine countries that are not yet members of GBIF.
- 2012 Asia-Pacific workshop on sharing biodiversity information and the Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT2) by TaiBIF.
Taipei City (Chinese Taipei), May 2012.
Partners: ACB, Chinese Taipei, ICIMOD, India, Pakistan and Republic of Korea. - Biodiversity information standards and protocols workshop by UgaBIF. Kampala (Uganda), July 2012.
Partners: ARCOS, Kenya, Republic of Congo, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda. - Biodiversity data publishing in the Hindu Kush-Himalayas: platform, prospect and progress by ICIMOD.
Kathmandu (Nepal), July 2012.
Partners: Chinese Taipei, ICIMOD, India and Pakistan. - Biological collections 3.0 by GBIF Colombia.
Bogotá (Colombia), October 2012.
Partners: Argentina, Colombia, Spain and Uruguay.
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.
Information related to the 2012 call for support is available at http://www.gbif.org/participation/training/plans/regionaltraining/.
For further information, contact:
Alberto González Talaván
Senior Programme Officer for Training
GBIF Secretariat
atalavan@gbif.org
