[Gbif-europe] COST Action involving European GBIF Nodes

[Francisco Pando]

Dear colleagues in COST,



This week I am on travel, and seeing how it goes I do not think I  am going able to make any significant progress   on our COST Action.



I did make an inquire about participation of  international organizations, and this is the answer I got from the call's helpdesk:



Dear Francisco,

International Organisations are welcome to participate in an Action at their own expenses and based on mutual benefit.

There are no exceptions.

Kind regards,

The COST Association

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Next week I will put this on track



Best wishes,



Paco


Francisco Pando

Responsable
GBIF.ES, Unidad de Coordinación            Tel.+34 91 420 3017 x 274
Real Jardín Botánico - CSIC                Fax +34 91 429 2405
Plaza de Murillo, 2                        pando at gbif.es<mailto:pando at gbif.es>
28014 Madrid, Spain                        www.gbif.es<http://www.gbif.es>
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From: Francisco Pando
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2015 3:24 PM
To: nodes_Europe at cemail.gbif.org; gbif-europe at biodiversity.be
Subject: Remider: An invitation to participate in a COST Action involving European GBIF Nodes

Dear Colleagues,

This is a friendly reminder of the invitation I sent earlier this week. The idea is to have a core partnership to prepare the proposal by COB tomorrow. So far I have collected positive answers from Poland, Ireland, France, Portugal, Norway and Belgium (and PESI), so we are seven countries already involved; COST actions require a minimum of 5 so that is a go, but  COST actions are intended to be very inclusive (=extensive), there is room for everyone.

Questions, suggestions, and specially “expressions of interest”, still welcome; at this stage, until COB tomorrow. Nevertheless, COST actions include a mechanism to accept additional members after they have started.

With all best wishes,

Paco


Francisco Pando

Responsable
GBIF.ES, Unidad de Coordinación            Tel.+34 91 420 3017 x 274
Real Jardín Botánico - CSIC                twitter.com/GbifEs<https://twitter.com/GbifEs>
Plaza de Murillo, 2                        pando at gbif.es<mailto:pando at gbif.es>
28014 Madrid, Spain                        www.gbif.es<http://www.gbif.es/>; datos.gbif.es<http://datos.gbif.es/>
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Le 10/02/15 18:39, Francisco Pando a écrit :
Dear Colleagues,

Recently a Call for COST Actions was issued:
http://www.cost.eu/participate/open_call

Having gone through the documentation and contacting colleagues and COST Helpdesk. I believe we have an opportunity here to carry out many of the things we talk every time we get together but then struggle do due to time and resource constrains.

I have also gone through the ongoing COST Actions (c.30 around “biodiversity”) and identified a niche for us that fits the “COST spirit” and I believe is understandable: “Integrating the integrations for biodiversity information”.

As usual with EC calls, documentation is not scanty, but as a start, the documents to focus upon are the following:

http://www.cost.eu/download/SESA_Guidelines
http://www.cost.eu/download/Technical_Annex

The call’s relevant parameters are:
                Going for large networks,
Annual budget c. 100,000 €, for 4 years,
                15 page max. application doc. (the technical annex)
                First collecting date 24 march
I have created  a google doc to prepare the technical annex, and populated with my initial concept and some ideas for tasks/working groups:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MVPGxJMjcDizcgx790eLbODp4YQHB7YwiGrGulDdgno/edit?usp=sharing

Before jumping to the documents and add text, please let me know if you are willing to be part of this application, your ideas for the general concept/challenge and if you think you could lead a particular set of activities /working group.

With your  input I will create a Google group to handle communications regarding the preparation of this COST action. We will see by Friday COB if we have critical mass to go ahead.

It is not a lot of time, but application is short and we are a pretty consolidated community.

With all best wishes,

Paco



Francisco Pando

Responsable
GBIF.ES, Unidad de Coordinación            Tel.+34 91 420 3017 x 274
Real Jardín Botánico - CSIC                twitter.com/GbifEs<https://twitter.com/GbifEs>
Plaza de Murillo, 2                        pando at gbif.es<mailto:pando at gbif.es>
28014 Madrid, Spain                        www.gbif.es<http://www.gbif.es/>; datos.gbif.es<http://datos.gbif.es/>


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