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Issue 54

     

January 2026

Save the date for BEeS 2026 

and get ready to submit your abstract!

Time flies! It feels like just yesterday we were preparing for the last BEeS edition (take a look at a short recap of last year's event here). This year, BEeS heads to Plovdiv, Bulgaria, where we'll meet from 7 to 10 July for a new edition of LifeWatch ERIC's conference dedicated to Biodiversity and Ecosystem eScience. The call for abstracts opens in February: stay tuned and follow all updates on the BEeS 2026 website.

Project spotlight: meet RECUP-DAS, the initiative that will clean two river basins

The project, involving the Andalusian Regional Governement, LifeWatch ERIC, and the University of Huelva aims at restoring the Río Tinto and the Río Odiel water basins with €10.4 million funding for DAS-based plant.

   
   

News from the World of Research

Did you know LifeWatch ERIC can help you reduce the energy footprint of resource-intensive workflows, accelerate data discovery, and lower computational costs? In our new fact sheet you can get an overview of our services for the scientific community.

Italy has officially joined the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). This development enables Italy to contribute its biodiversity data directly to the world’s largest open-access repository of species occurrence information.

Project ITINERIS reached its final phases and recently launched two training events for the users of its platform for RI staff, guiding them in the use of its Virtual Research Environments, and presenting practical use cases.

How do we assess the condition of European coastal wetlands, and why does their restoration matter for the climate? RESTORE4Cs Policy Briefs #8 and #9 address these questions, propose definitions and frameworks, and highlight remaining gaps.

We presented the Crete Declaration at the University of Lisbon and engaged in insightful discussions about health, environment, and social and political sciences with students from the Doctoral Programme in Planetary Health. 

During the third round of stakeholder consultations, Marine SABRES invited students in Pisa to dialogue, exchange knowledge, and talk about marine ecosystem restoration, reflecting on how marine research connects with everyday life. 


Board of Opportunities

GES4SEAS Summer School

Limited to 30 participants


Agroecology Partnership 3rd co-funded call

Deadline: 18 February


B-Cubed Training Series by BMD

First Event: 20 February


Microbes 4 Climate 2nd Transnational Access (TNA) Call

Deadline: 8 March


Doctoral Programme in Planetary Health Studies

Deadline: 24 April


BEeS 2026 Call for Abstracts

Opens in February

Pic of the month

Transfagarasan

The Eastern Burnet Moth (Zygaena carniolica), like the majority of Burnet Moths, warns its enemies with its characteristic red and black colouring, as both the butterflies and caterpillars are poisonous. It is named after the former Slovenian province of Carniola, from which it was described in 1763 in the work "Entomologia carniolica" by the Italian naturalist Joannes Antonius Scopoli, who worked in Idrija for 15 years. Photo by Tomi Trilar, Slovenian Museum of Natural History (LifeWatch Slovenia).

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