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--></style></div><div>Dear Patricia<br></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>Thanks for the information. <br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>Indeed it would be really interesting to present something about BID there. <br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>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. <br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>best wishes<br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>Anne-Sophie <br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__"><div data-marker="__HEADERS__"><b>De: </b>"Mergen Patricia" <patricia.mergen@africamuseum.be><br><b>À: </b>Bid-community@lists.gbif.org<br><b>Envoyé: </b>Mercredi 16 Janvier 2019 19:21:33<br><b>Objet: </b>[BID-Community] hird Island Biology conference in July 2019 (8 - 13) on La Réunion<br></div><div><br></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Dear all </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">I was asked by a contact at the European Commission active in their Pacific Island program, to make you aware of this conference
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">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.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">From the site I read that the topics of the Symposia will be decided the 30<sup>th</sup> of January and there is a deadline the for abstract is 15<sup>th</sup> of February.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">I might be good to present some of the GBIF BID grants outcomes there ?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">All the best <br>
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Patricia </span></p>
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