On 10 and 11 April 2024, the Symposium 'Biodiversity Change in the Anthropocene' will be held at the Fano Marine Centre. The symposium is open to all experts dealing with biodiversity in Italy, both terrestrial and aquatic. The symposium will be divided into three sessions: ...
“Hic sunt leones“ is an expression used in cartography to describe unexplored, unknown territory. Similarly, the Hic Sunt Lupi project aims to understand the causes of a hitherto unknown situation: the wolf’s return to Salento (Italy). Partners of this project are Regione Puglia, CNR-IRET, and the Sapienza University of Rome, which...
We are excited to announce the launch of the sRedList platform. A collaboration between the sRedList working group and LifeWatch Italy, sRedList aims to simplify the work of experts in the process of assessing threatened species by providing reliable support and advanced analysis tools....
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...