The EVERSE project (https://everse.software) aims to create a framework for research software and code excellence, collaboratively designed and championed by the research communities, in pursuit of building a European network of Research Software Quality and setting the foundations of a future Virtual Institute for Research Software Excellence.

The project has organised a series of webinars, the first of which will happen on Tuesday, 15th April 2025, at 10 AM CEST. This event takes place in the context of the project’s work on community-led best practices for developing high-quality research software, which has the objective of building a knowledge hub called the Research Software Quality toolkit (RSQKit).

Following a recent landscape survey on best practices in Research Software Quality (RSQ), Jutta Schnabel (Friedriech-Alexander University) will present the results of the work led so far, and Daniel Garijo (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid) will focus on indicators and dimension for RSQ.

For the full agenda and registration details, visit this page: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1531998

30 June – 03 July 2025
Heraklion, Greece

The BEeS (Biodiversity and Ecosystem eScience) Conference 2025 will gather researchers, policymakers, and experts to tackle the Triple Planetary Crisis (climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution) through eScience and European Research Infrastructures (RIs).

This year’s conference will explore synergies between LifeWatch ERIC services and emerging technologies to drive innovation for a sustainable future. The program features plenary sessions, thematic services, research presentations, and hands-on demonstrations, highlighting the crucial role of technology, data, and collaboration in addressing global environmental challenges.

Topics
Participants will engage in discussions on biological diversity and conservation, ecological responses to climate change, biogeography, taxonomy, biodiversity monitoring, and habitat mapping. The event will also include interactive booth activities, poster presentations, and training sessions, offering insights into Virtual Research Environments (VREs), Virtual Laboratories (vLabs), and other digital tools.

Call for Abstracts

The conference welcomes researchers in biodiversity, ecosystems, and eScience, with a special focus on early-career scientists, including PhD and Master’s students, to submit their abstracts in one of the six conference topics, by 15 April 2025.

The BEeS 2025 Conference will be hosted by the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR), Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology, and Aquaculture (IMBBC), in Heraklion, Greece, from June 30 to July 3, 2025.

For more information, visit: https://www.lifewatch.eu/bees-2025/

The BioDT Project is reaching the end of its mandate and is organising, in collaboration with Destination Earth, its final event taking place in Rome on 3 April 2025.

The event, available also for online participation, will highlight BioDT’s key results relevant for the European Commission’s Digital Twin strategy and its integration with the DestinE ecosystem.

Sustainability, interoperability, and the potential adoption of BioDT’s results by European Research Infrastructures and data spaces will be the key topics to drive discussions, scientific presentations and panel debates. Moreover, participants will assist to live demonstrations of prototype Digital Twins (pDTs) developed during the project.

For the agenda, registration, and further details, visit: https://biodt.eu/events/biodiversity-digital-twins-and-destination-earth-ecosystem