Day 1

Time Description
14:30 - 15:30 General update on key GBIF issues & activities by Vishwas Chavan and Burke Ko
-Informatics: release of IPT v2.0, NPT development (Bruno could be in charge), metadata catalogue, registry, etc.
-Content: new documents and guidelines, strategies
-Participation: Mentoring, training, capacity building, online ressource centre
-Governance: status & timelines for GBIF Strategic Plans, Work Programme, MoU signature
-Secretariat: staff changes, new staff positions

Day 2

Time Description
15:00 - 16:00 Regional collaboration and joint projects (session 1)

    Links/ongoing with external projects :
  • INSPIRE (Hanna Koivula)
  • LifeWatch (Olaf Banki)
  • Europeana & OpenUp! (Walter Berendsohn)
  • BioFresh (Andre Heughebaert)

Day 3

Time Description
09:00 - 09:45 Governance of the GBIF Nodes within Europe
exemples of others regions? Or others EU initiatives? Define organisation, nomination of the chair?
14:00 - 15:00
    Wrap up
  • Decisions
  • Actions


How these points fit with the development plan ?
15:00 - 16:00 Inputs for the next meeting Nodes Strategy Group in May in Copenhagen