Prepare for a journey that celebrates the wonders of biodiversity, the importance of ecosystem services, and the future of sustainable tourism. From October 15th to 18th, this immersive experience organized by the Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Italia, sponsored by LifeWatch Italy, CNR-IRET, and UniSalento,...
On 17th of March, the workshop “Approaches towards findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR) zooplankton trait data as stepping stones to improved functional ecology” will take place, organised by Jessica Titocci and Ilaria Rosati from CNR-IRET and LifeWatch Italy, in collaboration with Dr. Kieran...
On the occasion of World Biodiversity Day and the recent exhibition at CNR "Anthropocene: Earth on Fire," seven national experts will come together to discuss one of the most dramatic transformations characterizing our era. Their aim is to stimulate reflections on the critical relationship...
EcoLogicaCup is a national team-based ecology competition, organized by the University of Salento - Museum on Ecology of Mediterranean Ecosystems and LifeWatch Italy. It aims to make ecological and Environmental Education and Sustainability topics accessible, in the context of the United Nations' Agenda 2030,...
Abstracts are now open for the LifeWatch ERIC “BEeS” Biodiversity & Ecosystem eScience Conference “Threats and challenges to biodiversity and ecosystem conservation from an eScience perspective”, which is scheduled to coincide with Biodiversity Day 2023.Set in Seville, home to the statutory seat and ICT-Core of LifeWatch...
After two years of online meetings, the last ENVRI Week of the ENVRI-FAIR project was held in person from 30 January to 3 February 2023 in Leipzig, Germany. ENVRI Week is the annual meeting of the ENVRI-FAIR project which brings together the ENVironmental Research Infrastructures - hence the...
Yesterday, 19 December 2022, the kick-off meeting of ITINERIS, the Italian Integrated Environmental Research Infrastructures System, was held in Rome. The project, funded with €155 million from the PNRR and coordinated by the CNR (the Italian National Research Centre), involves 22 European and Italian...
On the 12th of December, the first session of the two-days WG1-WG3 joint workshop took place online – the second part will be held on the 16th of December from 13.00 to 15.00 CET. The first part was hosted by the WG1 Italian partners Andrea...
Ilaria Rosati from LifeWatch Italy has been invited to the OntoPortal Workshop (Montpellier, Fr - 26,28 September) as a panelist to represent EcoPortal, the repository of semantic resources developed by LifeWatch ERIC and co-managed with the Italian national node. During the session, together with...
Next month, LifeWatch Italy and DiSTeBA (the ecology laboratory of the University of Salento) will be taking part in the 31stConference of the Sea (Rassegna Del mare) organised by Mareamico, an environmental protection and ecological agency. Together, they will be putting on an educational session for students aged...
Environmental education as a tool for teaching inclusion. Palazzo Marchesale – Melpignano. On 31 May 2022, at the Palazzo Marchesale of the Municipality of Melpignano, the closing event of the activities between schools and universities of the project “young sustainability ambassadors: Environmental education as a...
On behalf of the President Corrado De Concini and the Director of the Presidential Estate of Castelporziano Giulia Bonella, we are pleased to broadcast the program of the meeting "Castelporziano for Biodiversity, 30 years after Rio" which will take place on 3 June 2022...