TETTRIs is represented at the European Citizen Science Conference 2026 in Oulu 🇫🇮
The team shared work on building taxonomic capacity, engaging hard-to-reach communities, environmental DNA in education, and Taxonomy Recognition Day.
#CitizenScience #Taxonomy #Biodiversity #TETTRIs
In the latest #FacesOfTaxonomy, Paula Kankaanpää, Director of the Finnish Museum of Natural History Luomus, reflects on the responsibility of natural history museums to ensure that biodiversity knowledge is effectively used by society and policymakers.
👉 Full interview:
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Don’t miss the Horizon Europe Cluster 6 Info Days!
📅 22–23 Jan 2026
The most relevant cluster for the CETAF community and biodiversity research.
🤝 Brokerage event: 21 Jan 2026 (Brussels)
🔗 Info & registration: register.event-works.europa.eu/dgscic/CL6_I...
#CL6INFODAY #HorizonEurope #EUFunding
🗣️ "Natural history museums play a key role in bridging science and society through education and public engagement." Rafael Zardoya, Director of Spain's Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN-CSIC) - CSIC @mncn-csic.bsky.social
👉Read the complete interview: cetaf.org/why-taxonomy...
If a species has no name, it is invisible to science, policy and conservation
In this article, Michael Magee (@nhmdk.bsky.social ) explains how #TETTRIs is tackling Europe’s taxonomic capacity crisis—making taxonomy visible,connected and future-ready
🔗 Read more
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The @mfnberlin.bsky.social is looking for a Strategic Lead for Collection Development and Senior Scientist.
📍Berlin, Germany
📭Application deadline: 18 January 2026.
🔗https://jobs.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin/jobposting/33584db482fdece321689ec27be78b233a8c2cec0
🐝 Pollinators are in decline.
The EU’s new EU PoMS sets a unified, science-based way to monitor them.
🎯 CETAF helped shape the methodology, ensuring taxonomic expertise is central to accurate pollinator monitoring.
🔎 cetaf.org/cetafhelps-s...
#Biodiversity #Pollinators #TaxonomyMatters
📣Over 1,000 people attend the Citizen Science Fair at MUSE-Museo delle Scienze in #Trento 🇮🇹
🔗 tettris.eu/2025/12/16/c...
The TEOSS project carried out its 5 field campaign, a 9-day expedition across Sierra Nevada. Led by El Bosque Animado and supported by TETTRIs, this mission aimed to record Orthoptera species that are scarce, poorly documented, or even absent from existing sound libraries.
🟠TETTRIs goes to Africa!
Maarten Van Steenberge, Dr. Rodrigue Pelebe, and Prof. Maarten Vanhove delivered a four-day workshop at the University of Parakou.
#TETTRIs #Taxonomy #Biodiversity #CitizenScience #Africa #CapacityBuilding
🌍 CETAF joins the Crete Declaration on One Health 🐾🌱
People, animals, plants & ecosystems are connected. Together, we advance #OneHealth, share data, drive innovation & strengthen Europe’s resilience.
Read the complete declaration: lnkd.in/dF4T46wW
#OneHealth #Innovation #Biodiversity #CETAF
🟨CORE (Collection Research) Grant 2026 – Apply Now!
The OÖ Landes-Kultur GmbH in Austria is inviting applications for the CORE program, supporting short-term research visits to study their world-class biological and paleontological collections.
🔗https://www.ooekultur.at/wettbewerbe-und-stipendien
📣 Don’t miss the Citizen Science Fair in Trento!
🔬Explore over 20 citizen science projects from the region, learn about their work, and connect with the people behind them.
Join us for a day of discovery!
📅 14 December | 📍 Trento
#TETTRIs #Taxonomy #Biodiversity #CitizenScience #Trento #Italy
🟨 Day 2 of the CETAF Directors’ Summit in Berlin
We kicked off this second day with opening remarks by Prof. Dr. Thomas Borsch, Director of the Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, and CETAF President Mr. Edwin van Huis.
#CETAF58 #Sustainability #Biodiversity #Taxonomy #ScienceForFuture
Today we kick off our 2nd CETAF Directors’ Summit, an event hosted together with the Botanic Garden Berlin and the Freie Universität Berlin.
This new edition will continue the dialogue on the ever-evolving role of natural history museums and botanical gardens in a rapidly changing world.
All our knowledge, challenges, and solutions gathered in one interactive document: TETRIs Blueprint👇
#TETTRIs #Blueprint #Biodiversity #Taxonomy #AIforNature #CitizenScience #Innovation #Conservation
Michael Magee, from the Natural History Museum of Denmark, leads TETTRIs’ communication and impact work. He presented at the Swedish Biodiversity Symposium an initiative engaging young people through nature walks that combine species discovery with music creation under the NATURE the Artist campaign
Leonardo Veronesi, from the European Citizen Science Association, has been working closely with our Satellite project, #Footprints.
Based in Norway, Footprints asks citizen to send pictures of animal tracks in snow and mud.👇
"Talking about #biodiversity without #taxonomy is like trying to build a puzzle without the pieces"
Kate Evans works at the Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre. In TETTRIs, she is leading the task of writing a blueprint for building taxonomic capacity.
1️⃣2️⃣ TEOSS: The European Orthoptera Sound System
1️⃣1️⃣ NEXTRAD: Macaronesian Lotus
🔟 L.U.C.E. Lighting up the understudied charismatic fireflies of Europe
9️⃣ ARCADE: Improving national reference collections to protect Portugal’s pollinators
8️⃣ FOOTPRINTS: Engaging citizens protecting Norway’s wildlife
7️⃣Balkan PolliS: Providing access to pollinators in the Balkan Peninsula
6️⃣INC-STEP: Creating a National Reference Collection for Spain’s Threatened Pollinators
5️⃣ TNLS: A new taxonomic name matching system in the age of Big Data
4️⃣SoilMATs: Training the next generation of soil Meiofauna experts
3️⃣TrAILSID: Training artificial intelligence models for Land Snail identification
