[Taxacom] i4Life Call for Pilot Projects

[Thierry Bourgoin]

Dear Taxacomers,

For your information...

Best wishes,
Thierry Bourgoin


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i4Life Call for Pilot Projects – Building content for the Catalogue of Life

The i4Life project is offering funding to establish and implement i4Life Pilot Projects to enhance taxonomic content of GSDs that will check and incorporate in their databases new scientific names and taxa, harvested from Global Partners (GBIF, IUCN Red List, BOLD, EMBL ENA and Encyclopedia of Life).

The Pilot Projects objective is to place as many new scientific names from Global Partners as possible in taxonomic checklists and, then, supply them to the Catalogue of Life during routine updates.
Unincorporated names will be returned to i4Life with annotations to show their status.

The i4Life budget commits approximately €200k plus overheads for this purpose and the duration of Pilot Projects will be 5 months.
Eligibility criteria are governed by European Commission rules.
Deadline: 31 August 2012 - 12:00 am (midnight) (Paris local time).

If you are interested you will find all information and documents on the i4Life webpage: http://i4life.eu/pilots.php


Contact for the call: 
Aurélie Delavaud
aurelie.delavaud at mnhn.fr
Programmes européens /  European Programs - i4Life
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle / National  Museum of Natural History
Direction des collections / Collections directorate - 45 rue Buffon - CP50 Entomo - 75005 Paris, Fr.
+ 33 (0)1 40 79 53 92