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2012-04-19Promoting synergy with LifeWatch related projects - On 13 April 2012, the LifeWatch Service Centre in Italy hosted a workshop with a number of projects ...
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2012-02-02Bird tracking system: prototype of a LifeWatch virtual laboratory - Tracking bird movement and behaviour at multiple scales in space and time is no easy task. A team at...
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2011-10-25Inter-ministerial meeting is moving LifeWatch to legal personality - On 19th October 2011, the (legal) representatives from Science Ministries of various EU countries ha...
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  • LifeWatch research infrastructure starts construction in 2011

    The initial country consortium establishing the LifeWatch research infrastructure agreed to finance the start-up activities for the infrastructure construction. These countries will host the Common Facilities of LifeWatch.

    On 19th January 2011 representatives from organisations in Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Romania and Spain signed a Memorandum of Understanding to cooperate for an early start of the LifeWatch infrastructure for biodiversity and ecosystem research.  The LifeWatch Stakeholders Board, representing the ten countries aiming at establishing the LifeWatch ERIC, welcomed the initiative to start early construction.

     

     On the photograph from left to right: Dr. Carlos Martínez Riera, Director General de Cooperación Internacional y Relaciones Institucionales, Ministerio de Innovación, Spain -- Prof. Dr. P.H. van Tienderen, Director of the Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands -- Dr Giuseppe Martini, Director Department of Life Sciences (for Prof. Luciano Maiani, President Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche), Italy -- Dr. Katalin Török, Director of the Institute of Ecology and Botany, Hungarian Academy of Sciences , Hungary -- Constatin Cazacu, LifeWatch Romania, University of Bucharest, Romania.

     

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"LifeWatch Supporting Project" Label PDF Print

LifeWatch applicationsResearchers frequently ask how they can be involved in the development process of the LifeWatch research infrastructure. Indeed, the European scientific and technical community has much to offer. Although LifeWatch cannot provide direct funding, many countries are involved in its preparatory phase. It may therefore may be of some advantage to your project if it is seen to be supporting the development of LifeWatch. It is now possible to request a label as LifeWatch Supporting project for projects which clearly contribute to the LifeWatch infrastructure development. The affiliated project has the right to use the LifeWatch logo in all project communications and is valid for the agreed project duration. LifeWatch lists the affiliation on this website.
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TWReferenceNET: a LifeWatch Supporting Project PDF Print

TWReferenceNET is an example of an international LifeWatch Supporting Project focused on the conservation and management of biodiversity in the Mediterranean and Black Sea lagoons. At the completion in 2006 the project has developed a transitional water data platform on flora and invertebrate fauna of the Eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea lagoons. This platform produces tangible services for targeted lagoon ecosystem stakeholders. TWReferenceNET is a data provider for the LifeWatch structure, and represents one of the show cases (Lagoon Networks show case) on how LifeWatch could operate.

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