Dear Paco, thank you for this update. That is good to know. I wasn’t aware that there are ambitions from the GBIF side to participate in the call (as the Austrian Atlas is not part of GBIF). I would be interested in the outcome of the discussion … if possible .. and if it concerns the LA-nodes/infrastructures. Best wishes Tanja Von: Francisco Pando <pando@gbif.es> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 22. September 2022 14:54 An: Tanja Lumetsberger <tanja.lumetsberger@donau-uni.ac.at>; 'Management committee for the Living Atlas community' <la-management-committee@lists.gbif.org>; ala-portal@lists.gbif.org Betreff: RE: [LAMC] Biodiversa+-Call : Interested in participating in a research proposal? Dear Tanja, dear colleagues, Yes, this is a very interesting call, in which GBIF nodes may fit very well. Anne-Sophie Archambeau, sent a message last Friday (attached) aiming for some coordination in this regard, and we –GBIF-Spain—will refrain from starting or getting involved in any initiative from colleagues –such as yours—until holding the session on the matter at GB29. Best wishes, Paco Francisco Pando Responsable GBIF.ES, Unidad de Coordinación Tel 91 568 0082 CSIC www.gbif.es<http://www.gbif.es/> Joaquín Costa, 22 pando@gbif.es<mailto:pando@gbif.es> 28002 Madrid, Spain From: LA-Management-Committee <la-management-committee-bounces@lists.gbif.org<mailto:la-management-committee-bounces@lists.gbif.org>> On Behalf Of Tanja Lumetsberger via LA-Management-Committee Sent: jueves, 22 de septiembre de 2022 14:38 To: la-management-committee@lists.gbif.org<mailto:la-management-committee@lists.gbif.org>; ala-portal@lists.gbif.org<mailto:ala-portal@lists.gbif.org> Subject: [LAMC] Biodiversa+-Call : Interested in participating in a research proposal? Hello, It’s Tanja Lumetsberger from the Biodiversity Atlas Austria. Vicente told me to post the following information via these email-lists: I wanted to let you know that we are looking into submitting a funding proposal to the Biodiversa+-Call from the European Union. The broad idea is to create an interface between Scratchpad and the Living Atlases infrastructure to enhance incorporation of national taxonomic backbones and information on certain species groups in the national LA infrastructures. A use case would be the taxon of Myriapoda and maybe another neglected taxon group. Additionally we would like to implement a function where local political decision makers can easily get a two-page output on their local regions state of biodiversity (depending on what is available in the Atlases). It would be great if we could team up to a broader transnational project consortium working on this implementations. Eligible for funding would be EU countries and some other associated states (please see here. https://www.biodiversa.org/2017). Duration is 3 years with a project budget each of around 12-1.5 million EUR. Starting date earliest is Dec 2023. At the moment it is my institution and the natural history museum of Vienna (both from Austria) and Senckenberg (Germany, working on Myriapods and the Myriatrix Scratchpad website (https://myriatrix.myspecies.info/). If you are interested in this, please let me know and I will include you in our project emailing list. Deadline for the call is 9th November - so we are in bit of a hurry. Best regards from Austria Tanja Tanja Lumetsberger, MSc Co-Lead Biodiversity Hub University of Continuing Education Krems Faculty of Economics and Globalisation Department for Knowledge and Communication Management Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Str. 30 3500 Krems/Donau T +43 (0)2732 893-2344 Discover Austria’s Biodiversity – „Biodiversity Atlas Austria“: www.biodiversityatlas.at<http://www.biodiversityatlas.at/>