The 2nd Lifewatch Data Management workshop took place from 16-20 March 2015 in the premises of the Department of Zoology in the University of Athens. About 25 Lifewatch data mangers from all over Greece participated in the course.

LifeWatchGreece was represented in the LifeWatch meeting for ERIC that took place in Malaga (Spain) between 26 and 27 of February 2015. All of the contributing EU member states (Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Greece, Romania) were present, as well as representatives from Slovakia, Portugal, Norway and Sweden. The meeting was chaired by Dr. Fernando Ballasteros (MINECO, Spain). A presentation of the progress made so far on ERIC issues was made by the leading state (Spain).

The second meeting of LifeWatchGreece Data Managers will take place at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 16 - 20 March 2015. This meeting will be an actual hands-on workshop, which will aim to bring together the LifeWatchGreece Data Managers from all over Greece in order to digitize species occurence data from historical publications. The workshop will give an opportunity to exchange expertise and knowledge on the field of data digitization, both for terrestrial and marine data.

The EMBOS Data Handling and Analysis Workshop was successfully held at HCMR-Crete, from 16 to 19 December 2014. During the workshop, participants of the EMBOS project (ESSEM COST Action ES1003 - Development and implementation of a pan-European Marine Biodiversity Observatory System) analyzed several datasets that were produced from pilot studies conducted during the spring of 2014 along the European coastline (from the Eastern Mediterranean to the North Sea).