[Taxacom] GBIF Seed Money Request for Proposals announced.

[David Remsen]

The Global Biodiversity Information Facility has released a Request  
for Proposals (RFP) for 2007-8 seed money. The deadline for  
submission of proposals is 1 November 2007.

The call is for GBIF data content development in response to data  
needs associated with clearly identified global biodiversity issues,  
such as (but not limited to) global climate change, invasive alien  
species, the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation, 2010 indicators  
or pollinators.

Projects may be to provide dataset(s) of occurrence data, taxon names  
data, or both.

The RFP text is available at:  http://www.gbif.org/GBIF_org/documents/ 
seedrfp
The announcement is available at http://www.gbif.org/News/NEWS1188570939

We kindly request your assistance in distributing this RFP to  
potential candidates.  If there are questions after reading the RFP,  
contact ECAT Programme Officer David Remsen for clarification.

Kindest regards,
David Remsen

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Senior Programme Officer
Electronic Catalog of Names of Known Organisms
Global Biodiversity Information Facility Secretariat
Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
Tel: +45-35321472   Fax: +45-35321480
Skype: dremsen
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