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The 2025 edition of the 2025 GBIF Graduate Researchers Award is now with a new call open. This annual programme aims to foster innovative research and investigation in biodiversity informatics by graduate students whose master’s and doctoral studies rely on GBIF-mediated data. The deadline for submissions at national level is May 31th 2025.

The Portuguese Node of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF.PT) was selected to join the network of open research data repositories of the National Program for Open Science and Open Research Data (PN CADAI). This initiative, managed by FCT through FCCN, and financed by the Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR), aims to strengthen the management and sharing of FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) data in Portugal.

As part of the GBIF Governing Board 31 program, BIOPOLIS organises the symposium "Using GBIF to mainstream biodiversity in governments, the private sector, and society" on Wednesday, 02 October 2024. It will take place at the Campus de Vairão, Auditório CIBIO, Vairão, Vila do Conde, starting at 9:30h, local time. The attendance to the symposium is open and free to all the community, either in person, or virtual.

The BIOPOLIS Association (CiBIO) and the University of Porto, on behalf of Portugal, will host the 31st meeting of the GBIF Governing Board. The event will take place from October 1 to 4, 2024, at the BIOPOLIS campus in Vairão, Vila do Conde.

The 2024 edition of the 2024 GBIF Graduate Researchers Award is now with a new call open. This annual programme aims to foster innovative research and investigation in biodiversity informatics by graduate students whose master’s and doctoral studies rely on GBIF-mediated data. The deadline for submissions at national level is May 31th 2024.

André Vicente Liz, a PhD candidate at the Research Centre in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources (CIBIO-InBIO) at the University of Porto, has been named one of the two winners of the 2023 GBIF Graduate Researchers Award.

The 2023 edition of the 2023 Graduate Researchers Award is now with a new call open. This annual programme aims to foster innovative research and investigation in biodiversity informatics by graduate students whose master’s and doctoral studies rely on GBIF-mediated data. The deadline for submissions at national level is May 31th 2023.

TROPIBIO, the Technical University of the Atlantic, GBIF Portugal, and the Higher Institute of Agronomy presents the Advanced training in biodiversity data mobilization in Cabo Verde. The course took place from July 11 to July 15, 2022 in the Institute of Engineering and Marine Sciences, Technical University of the Atlantic,   Campus da Ribeira de Julião, São Vicente, Cabo Verde.