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PESI portal launched

vlizadmin — Wed, 25 May 2011 07:52:51 +0000

The portal of PESI (Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) has been launched: www.eu-nomen.eu/portal and is available in 21 European languages. With time, it will be possible to find and search through the information of all species appearing in Europe. Not only of all terrestrial and aquatic species, but also the species living in seas and oceans. Currently, there are already nearly half a million scientific and non-scientific names in 89 languages for over 210,000 species and over 6 million distribution records.

PESI in Innovation Report May 2011

vlizadmin — Mon, 23 May 2011 09:55:45 +0000

Dr Yde de Jong offers insights into a project enhancing taxonomic information; work that is vital to supporting scientific research and real-life biodiversity management applications throughout Europe.

Final PESI brochure!

vlizadmin — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 09:58:34 +0000

The final PESI brochure was prepared and coordinated by Roisin Nash, EcoServe, Dublin, Ireland. Prints (10-15) will be sent to all partners and non-contracted consortium members for distribution to the (potential) user communities in their countries.

PESI seminar Sofia, Bulgaria

vlizadmin — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 14:43:07 +0000

PESI seminar National Museum of Natural History, Sofia, Bulgaria

Dutch biodiversity book

vlizadmin — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 12:59:54 +0000

New book on Dutch biodiversity

Researchers night

vlizadmin — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 12:40:23 +0000

PESI partners participate in “Researchers night” – face to face with European researchers

PESI in International Innovation

vlizadmin — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 13:34:16 +0000

Taking a register

XIII OPTIMA Meeting

vlizadmin — Thu, 27 May 2010 14:39:39 +0000

The Akdeniz University Antalya and the “Flora Research Society” hosted the XIII OPTIMA Meeting in Antalya, Turkey (22–26 March 2010). OPTIMA (Organization for the Phyto-Taxonomic Investigation of the Mediterranean Area) meetings are held every three years in different countries of the Mediterranean region. This was the appropriate place (ca. 220 participants from 22 countries) to present a poster on the progress of Euro+Med Plantbase within PESI.

Encyclopedia of Life Compositae Workshop

vlizadmin — Thu, 27 May 2010 09:56:23 +0000

The Biodiversity Synthesis Group of the Encyclopedia of Life hosted a workshop (15-17 April 2010) at the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (IL), on the Compositae (sunflower family), with 30 participants from 14 countries. Eckhard von Raab-Straube (FUB-BGBM) was invited to discuss PESI's possible data contribution to global initiatives like the Global Compositae Checklist, the Virtual Key to the Compositae, and to species pages of the Encyclopedia of Life.

2nd focal point meeting

vlizadmin — Wed, 26 May 2010 14:17:13 +0000

2nd PESI Focal Point meeting in Edirne, Turkey

Trakya University, Edirne, Turkey hosted the PESI 2nd Focal Point meeting: “Towards e-Taxonomy Infrastructure Networks across Europe and Neighbouring Countries” from 18 – 21 May 2010, with participation of 30 representatives from 21 European and neighbouring countries.

Coordination of taxonomy progresses in North Africa

vlizadmin — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:09:33 +0000

North African taxonomists are strengthening their regional coordination and cooperation networks. PESI was invited to participate in the first conference of the Association Tunisienne de Taxonomie (ATUTAX), as well as the meeting of the North African taxonomic network BioNET-NAFRINET. Both meetings were held in Tunis on April 23 and April 24-25, 2010, respectively.

Sixth European Conference on Research Infrastructure

vlizadmin — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 07:29:02 +0000

Because of the PESI involvement in the European research infrastructures developments, Yde de Jong was invited to the Sixth European Conference on Research Infrastructures (ECRI2010) in Barcelona, on 23 and 24 March 2010. The objectives of the conference were to promote discussions on the European strategy for research infrastructures (RIs) and on the decision making process to enable the implementation of the ESFRI roadmap.

GBIF Nodes Meeting

vlizadmin — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 07:26:08 +0000

Yde de Jong attended the GBIF European nodes meeting at Alicante (March 10-12, 2010) to discuss the collaboration with the European biodiversity projects in relation to the GBIF work plan.

EDIT Summer School of Modern Taxonomy 2010

vlizadmin — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:42:34 +0000

The EDIT Summer School of Modern Taxonomy 2010 will be held on the island of Madeira (Portugal) http://www.atbi.eu/summerschool

BioFresh Kicked off

vlizadmin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:58:37 +0000

Yde de Jong was invited to present PESI at the kick-off meeting of the recently started EU FP7 funded BioFresh project (Berlin, 23-26 February 2010). The main objective of the BioFresh project is to improve capacity to protect and manage freshwater biodiversity in the face of ongoing changes to global climate and socioeconomics, bringing together the vast amount of information on freshwater biodiversity currently scattered among a wide range of databases.