The Biodiversity Spring Market brings together actors on biodiversity in Belgium. Become a part of it and meet other organisations with a similar mission.

This year there will be a focus on Biodiversity Monitoring with an information session on monitoring in the morning. In the afternoon the market will open, where you can present your initative and network with other organisations.

Registration is open!
22/03/2023 - Brussels
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3 | Job opportunity: Scientific Officer One Health & Biodiversity

Together with Sciensano, we are looking for a science officer with expertise in One Health, particularly with its relation to Biodiversity. The One Health approach aims to sustainably balance and optimize the health of people, animals, ecosystems and the wider environment. It mobilizes multiple sectors, disciplines and communities to work together to foster well-being and tackle threats to health and ecosystems. And it addresses the collective need for clean water, energy and air, safe and nutritious food, action on climate change, and contributing to sustainable development.

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The Science Officer will provide expertise, skills and knowledge to facilitate transversal science-policy-practice projects and activities related to One Health. It will build on previous activities of the BBPf on biodiversity and health/OneHealth (read more here), and further reinforce interlinkages across relevant disciplines, research communities, stakeholders and (policy) actors.

Application and more info

For more information, please contact Divija Jata, Operational Coordinator for the Belgian Biodiversity Platform

Biodiversa+ is very pleased to be co-organising the 17th Alternet Summer School! This year’s edition will take place from 30 August - 9 September 2023. Keep an eye open for registration announcements and further info.

the Alternet Summer School creates an innovative atmosphere for considering and resolving the sustainability challenges that society is currently facing. Peyresq, a picturesque village in the Haute-de-Provence Alpes, provides an unparalleled setting for dynamic discussions and transdisciplinary learning.

Last year’s programme theme was entitled: Biodiversity and societal transformation: perspectives on science and policy.

For more information, please contact Leendert Plaetinck, Communication Officer for the Belgian Biodiversity Platform

8th May 2023

The Belgian IUCN Focal Point welcomes you to the first Belgian IUCN Members Day. Join this great opportunity and get to know the Belgian IUCN members and work for nature conservation, learn about the IUCN European work programme, and get inspired by the work of the IUCN Commissions!

Join us at the Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences on 8^th May 2023.

For more information, please contact Divija Jata, IUCN National Focal Point at the Belgian Biodiversity Platform

The first external review of the thematic assessment of the interlinkages among biodiversity, water, food and health (nexus assessment) is open from 9 January to 19 February 2023.
 
By contributing to the review, which focuses on the first draft of the chapters of the assessment, you'll be involved in one of the most important phases in the IPBES assessment process. The widest possible participation and most diverse engagement of interested and qualified experts, including scientists, decision makers, practitioners and other knowledge holders from all relevant disciplines and backgrounds, is vital to ensure the scientific quality, credibility and policy relevance of the assessment.
 
Your expertise is crucial as your comments will help IPBES to develop a better and more comprehensive assessment. The names of all expert reviewers will be acknowledged in the reports and the responses from the authors will be made available online once the assessment is approved.

Interested? Put your expertise to great use and become a reviewer of the IPBES nexus assessment! Find more information on the IPBES website.

For more information, please contact Anna Heck, Science Policy Officer for IPBES Belgium Focal Point

On behalf of the network of national participants, the GBIF Secretariat is pleased to invite nominations for the 2023 Graduate Researchers Award. This annual programme aims to foster and recognize innovative research and discovery in biodiversity informatics by graduate students whose master’s and doctoral studies rely on GBIF-mediated data.

The 2023 programme will provide a pair of prizes worth €5,000 recognizing the work of two early-career researchers—preferably, one master’s and one PhD candidate—who will receive formal nominations from the heads of delegation or node managers of GBIF Participant countries.

A jury organized by the GBIF Science Committee will select two award recipients from the pool of nominees whose names are received by the GBIF Secretariat by 19 June 2023. The GBIF Secretariat will announce winners in early fall 2023 and present the winners at the 30th meeting of the GBIF Governing Board (GB30) planned for Canberra, Australia, in October 2023.

Call for nominations

In the February issue of the support hour (1 february, 16:00 - 17:00 CET), the GBIF Data Products team will give a brief introduction to the various technical components of the GBIF data-landscape and how they relate to one another. They'll begin by explaining what happens at the point of publication of a dataset when the different dataset types are checked by the system, and end by exploring how all the different components and tools GBIF utilize depends on or draw info from each other.

We hope this general introduction will spark questions or discussions concerning the different components or generate ideas for future support hour topics. But remember – you are always welcome to join and ask a question that is unrelated to the topic of the day.

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For more information on GBIF related news, please contact Dimitri Brosens, GBIF Node Manager Belgium at the Belgian Biodiversity Platform.