Activities and workshops

BioDATA course bridging biodiversity and DNA barcoding data with a focus on publishing and using molecular data available in GBIF and BOLD.

BioDATA symposium for partner universities, ForBio, and GBIF in the spring of 2021.

Note that the symposium is postponed because of the COVID-19 travel restrictions. The Armenian National Agrarian University, the BioDATA project of the University of Oslo (Norway), and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) are happy to invite biodiversity data stakeholders, applied and fundamental researchers, nature conservation and management specialists, data publishers and data users from universities, NGOs and state agencies, specialists on the science-policy interface in Georgia and Armenia for a half-day symposium.

Note that the course is postponed because of the COVID-19 travel restrictions. Five-day program curriculum on open biodiversity data publishing, including excursion and bioblitz in Yerevan, Armenia.

Five-day program, including excursion and bioblitz or if high-level data paper publishing. (We will monitor the COVID-19 travel recommendations - and delay the course dates if needed)..

Five-day program curriculum on open biodiversity data publishing, including excursion and bioblitz in Bialowieza, Belarus.

Five-day program curriculum on open biodiversity data publishing, including excursion and bioblitz in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.

 The goal of the train-the-mentors course is to equip the target group, the most advanced and appropriate trainers in the target countries, with the necessary training skills to apply these as assistants in the main training activities in Dushanbe (June 2019), Minsk (November 2019), Yerevan (April 2020), and Kiev (October 2020).