The Grid and Cloud Institute is a structure of the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in charge of the coordination and animation of all CNRS activities in the field of grid production and research. It serves as contact point towards partners, in particular European ones, for all grid projects in these domains. It has vocation to federate, in agreement with the other participating organizations and institutes, the national contribution to international projects. As such, it acts as legal representative of the French National Grid Initiative France Grilles.
Public body means any legal entity established as such by national public law, and international organisations. "Established" signifies that the legal entity either has to be incorporated as a public body in the formal act or, governed by public law (usually both). Criteria such as the direct supervision of a legal entity by the State, the public financing or the public service mission are no longer sufficient to define an entity as a public body.
The main objective of Swedish LifeWatch is to make major Swedish biodiversity databases interoperable and thereby accessible through standardized web services. A coherent Analysis portal will provide a single access point and a range of analytical and visualisation services. Other major components include a taxonomic backbone and a user administration system. The infrastructure will be freely available to anyone, but researchers and conservation biologists are considered the main target groups.
The Swedish Species Information Centre (ArtDatabanken) serves as the focal point for information on threatened species and biodiversity in Sweden.
Main tasks are to collect, evaluate and store the most important information about endangered and rare species from all major organism groups: plants, animals and fungi, and from all environments, including terrestrial, freshwater and marine habitats. A basic part of this work is to assess the types and degrees of threat, and to prepare the national Red List and Red Data Books.
Some of our tasks:
The RMCA was established in 1897 and, as a multidisciplinary institution focussing on conservation, education and research. It holds the largest biodiversity collection anywhere in the world on Central Africa, offering a complete cross-section of reference material from many central African taxa. Furthermore, the majority of the specimens originate from the relatively poorly studied megadiversity belt in the equatorial region of Africa, and from West Africa. Collections from this region are relatively poorly represented in museums elsewhere in the world.
The Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre is a national source of information on biodiversity. The organizations main function is to supply the public with updated and accessible information on Norwegian species and ecosystems.