Welcome to MOBILISE
The EU COST Action CA17106 on “Mobilising Data, Experts and Policies in Scientific Collections”. MOBILISE was officially launched back in October 2018 and will last for four years. For its results however, the journey does not end there. They will be directly embedded into the Research Infrastructure DiSSCo - Distributed System of Scientific Collections - and will serve the community by ensuring their sustainable value and further development in the long term.
Background
Natural Science Collections in Europe host ca. 1.5 billion (1.5x10^9) biological and geological collection objects, which represent about 80% of the known current and past bio- and geo-diversity on Earth. Accessing to and mobilising the data contained and the knowledge built thanks to those collections is at the core of MOBILISE Cost Action. Research data and the researchers community providing such priceless richness are pivotal to support, promote and foster scientific advances.
Major Aims
The ultimate aim of this COST Action, MOBILISE, is to build up a cooperative, inclusive, bottom-up and responsive network with active involvement of European stakeholders to support research for biodiversity and geodiversity informatics. MOBILISE will facilitate knowledge and technology transfer across stakeholders, bridging the gaps between biodiversity and geodiversity research and information technology best practices.
How to participate
MOBILISE, as an EU COST Action, is a bottom-up network of scientists across Europe that intends to strengthen networking, knowledge exchange and capacity building by bringing together experts and researchers. If you feel eager to actively participate in any of the six working groups (WGs) of MOBILISE, please make sure that the country of your home institution is a COST Country (or Cooperating State). If the answer to that is ‘yes’, please verify if the country (not the institution!) is already participating in MOBILISE.
Latest News
Online session of the MOBILISE third blended Training School of MOBILISE
May 11, 202243 trainees from all over Europe participated the online session of the MOBILISE third blended Training School of MOBILISE which was implemented successfully yesterday the 6th of May!! Congratulations to all trainees who followed until the last […]MOBILISE Working Meeting in Crete
April 15, 2022From Tuesday 17 to Friday 20 May 2022 the MOBILISE COST Action will come together in Heraklion (Crete, Greece) for a large event focusing on challenges around data mobilisation, publication and re-use derived from natural science collections. The […]MOBILISE blended Training School (TS) “Digitisation and data management challenges in small collections”
February 24, 2022MOBILISE blended Training School (TS) “Digitisation and data management challenges in small collections” MOBILISE COST Action 17106: “Mobilising Data, Policies and Experts in Scientific Collections”, in cooperation with GBIF https://www.gbif.org, […]Workshop on Machine Learning on Images of Natural History Collections
September 17, 2021Workshop on Machine Learning on Images of Natural History Collections (Cost Action Mobilise – CA17106). Coimbra, 8-10 September 2021, Herbarium of the University of Coimbra, Department of Life Sciences. An interdisciplinary team of 19 […]