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Semantics for Biodiversity – International Workshop
The 1st international workshop on Web Semantics for Biodiversity, held on 27 May in Montpellier, France, will define key challenges identified by the bioinformatics community, discuss solutions and identify opportunities emerging from interactions across plant science and informatics disciplines.
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Upcoming training events
A genebank management course in Korea. Photo: Bioversity
Bioversity offers, with our key partners, short training courses and workshops related to our research agenda.
Training events primarily target stakeholders in developing countries including farmers, genebanks, researchers, universities, policy makers and others. Eligibility for training events is usually restricted or by invitation.
Course programme and training materials from past courses can often be made available upon request.
If you would like more information about a specific course in the Training Calendar, relevant contact details are provided in the course description below.
Date | Title | Location | Organizer |
|---|---|---|---|
Open | online | Cornell/UNICEF | |
3 weeks May-June 2013 | Principles of Biobanking for Clinical, Biological and Environmental Biospecimens and Bioresources | Luxembourg | University of Luxembourg |
3-6 June 2013 | Bydgoszcz, Poland | Kazimierz Wielki University | |
17-19 June 2013 | Valladolid, Spain | University of Valladolid | |
8-13 Jul 2013 | Bordeaux, France | University of Bordeaux | |
15-19 Jul 2013 | Marburg, Germany | University of Marburg, Germany | |
11-14 Aug 2013 | Fort Collins, Colorado, USA | USDA-ARS | |
26-30 Aug 2013 | V Curso Internacional de Adaptación al Cambio Climático: el rol de los servicios ecosistémicos | Costa Rica | CATIE |
16-27 Sep 2013 | II Curso de Uso del Modelo SWAT como herramienta para Manejo de Cuencas Hidrográficas | Costa Rica | CATIE |
21-26 Oct 2013 | Curso-Taller Sistemas de Semillas: Semilla de alta calidad - una apuesta segura | Colombia | Bioversity, CIAT, Oregon State University, Universidad Federal de Pelotas, Brasil, Embrapa, Brasil, Universidad Nacional de Colombia |
28 Oct - 15 Nov 2013 | Plant genetic resources and seeds: community resilience in the face of change | India | Wageningen UR Centre for Development Innovation |
25 Nov-6 Dec 2013 | Gestión Integral del Riesgo: Resiliencia ante las Amenazas Naturales Geológicas y Climáticas | Costa Rica | CATIE |
Courses on food and nutrition, sustainable development, climate change adaptation in agriculture, new approaches to genetic resources conservation and use, multi-stakeholder processes for institutional strengthening, participatory planning, monitoring and evaluation, design and management of sustainable farming systems and more. NUFFIC scholarships available. | Wageningen, the Netherlands | Wageningen UR Centre for Development Innovation | |
Variety of courses on Food Security, Asset Building, Sustainable Wealth Creation and others | Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, India and the Philippines |
For specific courses, please contact directly the organizers.
For general enquiries, contact: 
Per Rudebjer
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