<div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Dear Belgian GBIF members,</div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">In preparation of the next Governing Board, GBIF is seeking nominations for the Standing Committee members.(see Secretariat message below)</div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Would you be interested by one of the position, please le me know.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Don't hesitate to forward this information to your institution or anyone who might be interested.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Best regards,</div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></div>
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From: Anne Mette Nielsen via Nodes_Committee <nodes_committee@cemail.gbif.org><br>
Date: On Friday, 14 June 2024 at 15:34<br>
Subject: Call for nominations for GBIF committee members – nomination deadline 2 August 2024<br>
To: GB31 <gb31@gbif.org><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Dear GBIF Head of Delegation,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-US">In connection with the 31<sup>st</sup> Governing Board meeting (GB31) which will take place in Portugal in early October 2024, we will have elections for a number of GBIF committee
positions. We are therefore seeking nominations for GBIF committee members. This year we have six positions open.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-US">I invite all Heads of Delegation to nominate candidates for committee representation in accordance with the rules laid out in the attached documents.
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<p style="text-align:center" align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-US">The closing date for nominations is 2 August 2024.</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-US">An overview of the open positions can be found in the attached document ‘<i>Call for nominations of GBIF officials at GB31</i>’.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Details of the nomination and election process can be found in the attached document ‘GB31
<i>Voting rights and financial contributions</i>’. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Voting Participants in good financial standing may submit nominations for any of the six positions. Associate Participants and Voting Participants not in good financial standing
may submit nominations for a number of committee positions, as described the Call for nominations document. Nominations will also be required for renewal of existing officers if they are willing to serve for a second term.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-US">As GBIF is a global network, we encourage nominations from all regions and hope to have a regional and gender balanced representation in the GBIF committees.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-US">I look forward to seeing many of you at the GB31 meeting.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB">With kind regards,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB">On behalf of
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB">Joe Miller, Executive Secretary</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:DA" lang="EN-US">Anne Mette Nielsen</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:DA" lang="EN-US">Head of Administration</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:DA" lang="EN-US">GBIF Secretariat</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:DA">Universitetsparken 15</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:DA">2100 Copenhagen</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:DA">Denmark</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:DA">Tel: +45 35 32 14 81</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:DA">Email:
<a href="mailto:anmnielsen@gbif.org" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" target="_blank">anmnielsen@gbif.org</a> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Additional delegates and node managers are copied for information on this email</span></i></p>
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