Dear Patricia Thanks for the information. Indeed it would be really interesting to present something about BID there. And just to let you know, as La Réunion is a french territory, the UMS Patrinat is in direct link with the regional plateform and they are already quite well organised and GBIF France already connected some data sets from the region. best wishes Anne-Sophie De: "Mergen Patricia" <patricia.mergen@africamuseum.be> À: Bid-community@lists.gbif.org Envoyé: Mercredi 16 Janvier 2019 19:21:33 Objet: [BID-Community] hird Island Biology conference in July 2019 (8 - 13) on La Réunion Dear all I was asked by a contact at the European Commission active in their Pacific Island program, to make you aware of this conference [ https://ib2019.sciencesconf.org/ | https://ib2019.sciencesconf.org/ ] The EU would like to encourage participation of our community to this conference to make the participants aware of the conservation of the collections and archives kept in small repositories on the Islands. So that action are taken to mobilse these collections more, to digitize them and make them available.

From the site I read that the topics of the Symposia will be decided the 30 th of January and there is a deadline the for abstract is 15 th of February.

I might be good to present some of the GBIF BID grants outcomes there ? All the best Patricia Dr. Patricia Mergen Liaison Officer Royal Museum for Central Africa Botanic Garden Meise Leuvensesteenweg 13 3080 Tervuren - BELGIUM ' +32(0)2 769 5626 * [ mailto:Patricia.Mergen@africamuseum.be | Patricia.Mergen@africamuseum.be ] * [ mailto:Patricia.Mergen@plantentuinmeise.be | Patricia.Mergen@plantentuinmeise.be ] [ http://www.africamuseum.be/ | www.africamuseum.be ] www.plantentuinmeise.be P Before printing, think about the environment _______________________________________________ BID-Community mailing list BID-Community@lists.gbif.org https://lists.gbif.org/mailman/listinfo/bid-community