About us
ICEDIG – “Innovation and consolidation for large scale digitisation of natural heritage” - is an EU-funded project that aims at supporting the implementation phase of the new Research Infrastructure DiSSCo (“Distributed System of Scientific Collections”) by designing and addressing the technical, financial, policy and governance aspects necessary to operate such a large distributed initiative for natural sciences collections across Europe.
Upcoming events
| Biodiversity-next - better Data, better Science, better Policies. Open Digital Science Week on Biological and Geological Diversity | 21 Oct 2019 to 25 Oct 2019 |
| RDA's 14th Plenary | 23 Oct 2019 to 25 Oct 2019 |
| ESFRI Workshop on the Future of Research Infrastructures in the European Research Area | 6 Nov 2019 to 8 Nov 2019 |
| Empowering Biodiversity Research | 14 May 2020 to 15 May 2020 |
DiSSCo
DiSSCo is a new pan-European Research Infrastructure initiative with a vision to position European natural science collections at the centre of data-driven scientific excellence and innovation in environmental research, climate change, food security, health and the bioeconomy.
ICEDIG policy analysis
As part of ICEDIG Work Package 7 - "Policy & Legal Aspects" - a review of institutional policies relevant to natural history collections was carried out. The results of the survey and analysis are presented here as an interactive dashboard.