i4Life Call for Pilot Projects

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).

• Download the Call document

Supporting documents: 

• Roadmap for i4Life pilot projects This document is for guidance and some details may be subject to change.
• The Catalogue of Life Standard Dataset
• i4Life Description of Work

MNHN, Paris (i4Life participant) will coordinate the call with help from the University of Reading (i4Life project coordinator).

Contact: aurelie.delavaud@mnhn.fr