With ICEDIG now running its course, the first stakeholder engagement efforts of the project were launched at the highly anticipated ICEDIG Opening Conference which was held on March 6th, 2018. The event was hosted by the Finnish Natural History Museum at the Economicum university premises in Helsinki. Welcoming the audience was LUOMUS Director Leif Schulman who is also the coordinator of ICEDIG.

ICEDIG and DiSSCo were commonly represented at the EUDTA conference in Port in January 2018.

With the ICEDIG project now making its first steps as a Horizon 2020 initiative, the partners of the project have come together in Montpellier, France for the official Kick-Off Meeting (15-16 January 2018), hosted by CINES and Picturae. After two intensive days of work, the consortium is looking forward to the the tasks that lie ahead.

With the submission of the DiSSCo proposal now under way for inclusion on the ESFRI Roadmap 2018, we are pleased to announce that the affiliated ICEDIG proposal has been positively evaluated under the Horizon 2020 framework. The associated consortium consists of 12 partners and include both public and private organisations from 7 countries.