Objective
SYNTHESYS3 will create an accessible, integrated European resource for researchers in the natural sciences in Europe and globally. Building on the success of the previous SYNTHESYS IA, the NA will focus on improving collections management of new physical and virtual collections. By focusing the JRA on extracting and enhancing data from digitised collections, SYNTHESYS3 will increase the accessibility of these 390 million strong collections. A wide range of services and access – both physical and digital – will be provided to a broad range of scientific Users (from biological and geological related disciplines) in a consistent and accessible way.
The natural history collections, held within the museums and herbaria, of Europe are World-class in terms of their magnitude and taxonomic coverage. They represent a resource unique in Europe as a model of the diversity of life on earth and are a physical dataset enabling Users to research how the human activity (including climate change) is having an increasingly negative impact on the diversity and distribution of biodiversity, which is threatening the continued provision of ecosystem services essential to human well-being.
Field of science
- /natural sciences
Call for proposal
FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2012-1-RTD
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Funding Scheme
CP-CSA-Infra - Combination of CP and CSACoordinator
SW7 5BD London
United Kingdom
Participants (20)
TW93AB Richmond
EH3 5LR Edinburgh
75005 Paris
1165 Kobenhavn
28006 Madrid
SE 114 18 Stockholm
2333CR Leiden
14195 Berlin
10115 Berlin
1010 Wien
1088 Budapest
1000 Bruxelles
3080 Tervuren
11579 Praha
Participation ended
28939 Arroyomolinos
1081 HV Amsterdam
19013 Attikia Anavissos
60325 Frankfurt
70191 Stuttgart
28005 Madrid
