To celebrate Science Day 2019 on Sunday, 24th November, the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) offers guided tours on the Flemish research vessel Simon Stevin. In addition, VLIZ will demonstrate the variety of marine research at the Marine Station Ostend (MSO). During this edition, scientists reveal the technological progress in marine research that is no longer (science)fiction.

Date: January 23rd 2020

Venue: Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), InnovOcean Site, Wandelaarkaai 7, 8400 Oostende

Meeting scope:

On the 23rd of January the LifeWatch team at VLIZ welcomes delegates from various companies in the maritime industry sector to get introduced to the LifeWatch marine activities and services.

In parallel with the LifeWatch ERIC Dahlem-type Workshop, colleagues met (also remotely) for the 3rd Working meeting Metadata, Controlled vocabularies and Ontologies (Seville, 14 -16 October).

LifeWatch VLIZ was one of the LifeWatch distributed centers participating in this workshop.

Documents: 

Agenda - 3rd Working meeting _Metadata,and Ontologies_.pdf

LifeWatch ERIC needs to boost its construction and to engage users in developing their research activities into the Virtual Research Environments of the e-Science Infrastructures, by clearly demonstrating and documenting the added value these new technologies bring to address challenging hot topics.

From 15-17 October 2019, the second management committee meeting of the recently approved ETN COST Action CA18102 took place at the Palma Aquarium in Palma De Mallorca, Spain.

The data portal of ETN (European Tracking Network) is developed by the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) as part of the Flemish contribution to LifeWatch.

During this meeting in Palma De Mallorca, the LifeWatch VLIZ team gave an ETN hands-on database and data management workshop.

The Empowering Biodiversity Research conference, EBR II, takes place 24-25 May 2022 at the AfricaMuseum in Tervuren. It will take you on a journey into the world of biodiversity data standards and tools and will inform you on the latest developments in the world of Biodiversity Informatics, on the state of the art in initiatives like GBIF, LifeWatch and DiSSCo, etc. and how you can benefit from such initiatives.

After the successful launch of ELIXIR Belgium in 2017, the first ELIXIR Belgium All Hands Meeting was held on 16 September 2019 in Brussels. The aim of the event was to bring together all stakeholders of ELIXIR Belgium, showcase achievements and plans for the future, as well as provide networking opportunities to meet the people involved.

This event not only welcomed scientists from academia, research institutes and industry in life-sciences but also members from other research infrastructures and policy makers.