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    Community Meeting June 2026

    The next Community Meeting will take place on Monday, 01 June from 14:30 to 15:30 CEST, on Zoom. At this slightly shorter edition of our meeting, we will get an introduction to BGE+, the prosecution of the BGE project, which started in May,...

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    BgBOL launches webinar series

    The Bulgarian Barcode of Life (BgBOL) just announced a series of online seminars featuring international experts, focused on ot scientific topics of practical and academic importance. The next session will focus on the Digital Catalogue of Biodiversity of Poland and...

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    Community Meeting March 2026

    The last edition of our community meeting took place on 30 March. We started the meeting with Christian de Guttry, Robert Waterhouse (Swiss Bioinformatics Institute), and Nick Juty (University of Manchester), who walked us through BioDiv-FC, a project addressing the lack...

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    Connections Booklet: Discovering Biodiversity Genomics

    What is biodiversity? And genomics? And how are they related to each other in ways that help species monitoring and conservation? Throughout 2025, the “ERGA – iBOL Europe Connections” blog post series addressed these and many other questions about biodiversity...

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    Workshop: Developing a European eDNA Society

    On 5-6 February 2026, a workshop gathering representatives from iBOL Europe and the nascent European eDNA Society – eDNAEurope – took place at Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden (NL). eDNAEurope is a nascent initiative exploring the feasibility of establishing a...

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    Community Meeting January 2026

    The first community meeting of the year happened on 26 January. For a start, we received some updates from the Working Group leads. Then, Pablo Orozco (Leibniz-Institut DSMZ) walked us through the newly entered-into-force Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction Agreement (BBNJ). While the...

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