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1 year ago Dimitri, Belgium: I checked with the vliruos call and gave feedback to Jean. There is a call at the moment running call and Benin is one of the eligible countries. So I had positive feedback on the scope of a potential project, but unfortunately the call ends very soon, and the project partner in Belgium should be a Flemish University. So we are also too late. A similar call will come in the future. I will in the meantime try to connect with a Flemish university and maybe we can submit a proposal for the next call.
Draft project idea for ECA and Africa regional nodes (Jean Ganglo)
Project 1 to be coordinated by you from GBIF ECA --> Call for ECA node(s) to lead this project Project 2 to be coordinated from GBIF Africa --> GBIF Benin is available to lead this project The projects would be linked and complementary.
Project 1 (GBIF ECA)
Title: Training of trainers and promotion of best practices of curriculum development and fundraising to support academic training at Universities across Africa.
This project is aligned with 1) the eligible action 2 of the CESP call: https://www.gbif.org/news/54zD9vqmCpyL9dqd24Zd0z/ Support for regional events and training workshops: Courses and workshops with a regional (multi-national) component to enhance the capacity of individuals or networks to contribute to and benefit from GBIF. 2) Priority Area 1: Science and Research of the GBIF work program 2023 (https://docs.gbif.org/2023-work-programme/en/), more specifically, the project is aligned with the following activities of priority area 1: a. Activity 1.2: Advance GBIF’s contribution to the latest biodiversity modeling approaches b. Activity 1.3: Support open science principles The general objective of the project: The general objective of the project is to promote sustainable academic training in biodiversity informatics at master and Ph. D levels across Africa.
Specific objectives: 1) Train trainers in biodiversity informatics in Benin and across Africa in data use practices. 2) Elaborate, on the basis of the current curriculum of academic training in biodiversity informatics at the university of Abomey-Calavi and the biodiversity informatics curriculum of the University of Kansas, generalizable curriculums of academic training in biodiversity informatics for Universities across Africa. 3) Elaborate guidelines of best practices to successfully introduce academic training in biodiversity informatics at universities across Africa. 4) Elaborate guidelines of best practices to successfully raise funds to support academic training in biodiversity informatics at universities across Africa.
Expected outcomes: 1) Report of the workshop of training of trainers in biodiversity informatics in Benin and across Africa. 2) Generalizable curriculums of academic training in biodiversity informatics at Universities across Africa are elaborated. 3) Guidelines of best practices to successfully introduce academic training in biodiversity informatics at universities across Africa are elaborated. 4) Guidelines of best practices to successfully raise funds to support academic training in biodiversity informatics at universities across Africa are elaborated.
Project 2 (GBIF Africa)
Title: Data mobilization of the marginally represented taxa on GBIF-Benin and GBIF-Angola sites to support data use and decision-making on biodiversity conservation and risk prevention of vector-borne diseases.
The link to project 1 is that the training of the trainers will use the data mobilized in the framework of project 2.
Project 2 is aligned with 1) the eligible action 1 of the CESP call: https://www.gbif.org/news/54zD9vqmCpyL9dqd24Zd0z/ Mentoring activities: Interactions among two or more GBIF participants where the core objective is the transfer of information, technology, experience, and best practices in small groups. 2) Priority Area 3: Community and Capacity of the GBIF work program 2023 (https://docs.gbif.org/2023-work-programme/en/), more specifically, the project is aligned with the following activities of priority area 3: a. Activity 3.2: Support and strengthen GBIF nodes. b. Activity 3.4: Develop capacity and skills.
General objective: The general objective of the project is to fill data gaps of marginally represented data on GBIF data portals of Angola and Benin in order to promote data use to support decisions across Africa.
Specific objectives of the projects: 1) Assure capacity building of GBIF-Angola and GBIF-Benin partners in marginal data mobilization. 2) Publish on the GBIF site at least 10,000 occurrences of marginal data from Angola and from Benin respectively. 3) Attend the training of trainers workshop organized in Benin by European nodes.
Expected outcomes: 1) Reports of the workshops on capacity building of GBIF-Angola and GBIF-Benin partners on marginal data mobilization. 2) Links to at least 10,000 occurrences of marginal data published on the GBIF site by Angola and Benin respectively. 3) Report of the workshop of training of trainers in biodiversity informatics in Benin and across Africa.