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On Tuesday, 2 October 2018 , the COST Action MOBILISE – Mobilising Data, Policies and Experts in Scientific Collections – kicked off with its first Management Committee Meeting in Brussels, Belgium.   Read more: https://www.mobilise-action.eu/2018/10/02/cost-action-mobilise-kicked-off-with-first-management-committee-meeting/

The first official workshop of the COST Action MOBILISE was held in Bratislava, Slovakia, on Friday 16 November 2018. The goal of the workshop was to promote alignment of the DiSSCo-linked projects at the work level and to investigate how

Over 150 people from more than 40 countries came together in Sofia, Bulgaria, from 12 to 15 March 2019 for the 2nd MOBILISE COST-Action Management Committee meeting, WGs workshops and 1st Training School on biodiversity and geodiversity data mobilisation. The events

In Sofia, Bulgaria, from 14 to 15 March 2019, MOBILISE held its 1st Training School (TS) on “Digitization and Data Management Challenges of Small Collections” facilitating the capacity building of researchers working on natural history institutions holding small collections. The TS

A highly successful conference that brought together in Leiden, in October 2019, 700 participants from 76 countries! Major international organisations, scientists, and policy makers jointly shared community data standards and information management practices, promoting innovation in biodiversity information science and

From 10 to 14 February 2020, the MOBILISE COST Action implemented its 3rd Management Committee meeting, WGs workshops and Training School in Warsaw, Poland, hosted by the University of Warsaw. More than 100 participants from 36 countries discussed the activities developed so

The 2nd MOBILISE Training School “Digitisation and data management challenges in small collections”, organized in cooperation with GBIF and under the umbrella of CETAF and DiSSCo, was implemented in Warsaw, on 13 and 14 February 2020. The first day of

Short Term Scientific Missions (STSM) are exchange capacity building resources that allow scientists to visit an institution or laboratory in another COST Member state. Within the first two calls of the MOBILISE Cost Action, 19 STSMs applications were approved for

Preparing the MOBILISE website, setting up and activating Twitter (@MobiliseAction) and Facebook accounts (@mobiliseaction), and launching the MOBILISE newsletter were the first dissemination and outreach actions of the MOBILISE Cost Action (Working Group 6). The establishment of synergies between MOBILISE

For the foreseeable future, many of us are having to work at home and embrace new technologies to keep in touch. As this is a completely new way of working, COST has compiled a list of online networking tips and