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Guest researcher visits by Martin Westgate from ALA in Australia and Fatima Parker-Allie from SANBI in South Africa

Public GBIF Science Symposium in Oslo for the 33rd GBIF Governing Board.

MDT-GBIF Metabarcoding Data Mobilisation Workshop for Data Publication

ELIXIR Odyssey workshop on DNA-derived data

Regional GBIF Europe and Central Asia nodes meeting, ECA2026. Joint meeting with the Biodiversity Monitoring Week (BioMonWeek).

GBIF nodes from Norway and theNetherlands contributed to a biodiversity data workshop organized by GBIF Poland in Warsaw.

The GBIF node contributed to the BioDATA Advanced Research School on metabarcoding, delivering lectures on DNA-derived data mobilization in GBIF.

BioMonWeek 2026, the new European Conference for Biodiversity Monitoring. Including the regional GBIF Europe and Central Asia nodes meeting, ECA2026.

GBIF Norway Data Manager Rukaya Sarah Johaadien has won the GBIF Ebbe Nielsen Challenge for the second year in a row. The Ebbe Nielsen 2025 1st prize was shared between Rukaya and colleagues from Australia.

The 3rd Bergen Bathysphere Science Symposium took place this week in Espegrend Marine Biological Station outside Bergen. Bathysphere gathers deep-sea scientists across disciplines, institutions and countries, creating a venue for sharing both knowledge and enthusiasm for the deep-sea.

The 33rd GBIF Governing Board in Oslo is a closed event for participant delegations. And include a public Science Symposium on the 2nd October.

Network seminar for DiSSCo (Distributed System of Scientific Collections) and GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility) in Norway on 6th and the 7th of February 2020. The seminar had a focus on developing a governance structure for GBIF and DiSSCo in Norway. The seminar was open to all interested parties and was streamed online as a webcast to allow for remote participants.

GBIF Norway has launched a co-funding call for 2025 to mobilize your species' occurrence data with preparation to ensure data quality before datasets are published in GBIF and the Norwegian Species Map (Artskart). Deadline June 15th, 2025.

The 17th meeting of the nodes of the GBIF Europe and Central Asia region will take place in Ireland from 20 to 23 May 2025. This in-person meeting is open to node managers from the region's participant nodes.

GBIF nodes in Europe collaborate to develop an AI LLM driven machine-annotation service for digital specimens with CESP 2024-016 funding from GBIF. The service is being integrated with the DiSSCo machine-annotation service (MAS).

Distributed System of Scientific Collections (DiSSCo) joins GBIF as the latest non-country associate organization from Europe (September 2019).

The GBIF Ebbe Nielsen Challenge is an annual incentive prize that seeks to inspire innovative applications of open-access biodiversity data by scientists, informaticians, data modelers, cartographers, and other experts.

The GBIF Graduate Researchers Award is an annual incentive prize that seeks to inspire innovative applications of open-access biodiversity data by scientists, informaticians, data modelers, cartographers, and other experts.

2025 call for project proposals for co-funding the preparation of your species occurrence data and ensuring the data quality before datasets are published in GBIF and the Norwegian Species Map (Artskart). Deadline June 15th, 2025.

All-hands workshop for the GBIF Norway node board and node staff at Solstrand in Osøyro, outside of Bergen.

BioDT project staff from UiO Natural History Museum was teaching at the Biodiversity Digital Twin (BioDT) winter school in Lecce.

In March 2025, 12 new honorary ambassadors were recognized for their contributions to Oslo’s international conference scene. GBIF Norway and UiO NHMO MaNa received this award for the upcoming TDWG conference in Oslo in September 2026. The award was granted by Oslo Convention Bureau.

Norway is now part of OBIS. The new OBIS-GBIF Norway node is established as part of the Norwegian Participant node in GBIF.

We proudly announce that the 2024 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge winner is GBIF Norway Data Manager Rukaya Sarah Johaadien! The GBIF Ebbe Nielsen Challenge is the most prestigious GBIF award for innovative applications of open-access biodiversity data by scientists, informaticians, data modelers, cartographers, and other experts. Rukaya was recognized for her work on developing an AI chatbot pipeline to digitize and publish natural history specimens in GBIF.

BioDATA Advanced course on data use with GBIF in the Kruger National Park, South Africa, from the 18th to the 21st of November 2024. The application deadlines: 31st of July 2024 for South African students, 15 August 2024 for Norwegian students.