Agenda (All times shown are in Rabat local time (WEST = UTC +1 = CEST -1))
10:00 WEST in Rabat = 11:00 CEST in Franfurt, Oslo, and Copenhagen
Day 1: Tuesday, 27 May 2025 (AgroClim)
09:30 - 10:00 Registration, Coffee, and Mingling
10:00 - 10:05 Welcome and Practical Information, Zakaria Kehel (ICARDA, Morocco)
10:05 - 10:10 Workshop overview, Desalegn Chala (University of Oslo, Norway)
10:10 - 10:40 Participants' Introduction
10:40 – 10:55 BioDT: Developing prototype digital twins of biodiversity for Advanced Modelling, Simulation and Prediction Capabilities, Gabriela Zuquim (Scientific Coordinator, BioDT, CSC - IT Center for Science, Finland)
10:55 – 11:10 The Crop Wild Relatives Use Case, Desalegn Chala (University of Oslo, Norway)
11:10 – 11:25 Introduction to Destination Earth and EUMETSAT, Danaele Puechmaille (EUMETSAT; Germany)
11:25 – 11:40 The AgroClim Project: Deploying the Crop Wild Relatives Use Case to the Destination Earth Data Lake, Claus Weiland (Scientific IT, Senckenberg Nature Research Society; Germany)
11:40 – 12:20 Coffee Break
12:20 - 12:35 Demonstration of Access to the CWR DT Resources, Daniel Bauer (Scientific IT, Senckenberg Nature Research Society)
12:35 - 12:50 Demonstration of Access to EUMETSAT/Destination Earth Climate Resources, Danaele Puechmaille (EUMETSAT; Germany)
12:50 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:00 Hands-On Session: Interacting With the Crop Wild Relatives Digital Twin Graphical User Interface, Desalegn Chala
15:00 - 15:20: Global Hotspots of Crop Wild Relatives With Potential Novel Genetic Resources, Barnabas Daru (Stanford University, USA)
15:20 - 16:00 Coffee Break and Networking, and Informal Discussions
Day 2: Wednesday, 28 May 2025 (GBIF)
09:30 - 10:00 Registration, Coffee, and Mingling
10:00 - 10:20 Introduction to GBIF and GBIF Resources, Dag Endresen (GBIF Node Manager, University of Oslo, Norway) & Dmitry Schigel (GBIF Scientific Officer, Denmark)
10:20 - 10:40 Integration of sub-species crop categories to a taxon backbone in GBIF, Kaue de Sousa (CIAT, France)
10:40-11:00 Test case in publication of current accessions in Svalbard Global Seed Vault using Biocase provider, Kjell-Åke Lundblad (Nordic Genetic Resource Center, Norway)
11:00 - 11:30 GBIF Agrobiodiversity — restarting thematic priority Project - discussion facilitator: Dmitry Schigel and Dag Endresen
11:30 - 12:00 Coffee Break
12:00 - 12:10 Forming breakout groups (e.g, cataloging metadata level resources, agro names, and GBIF, spatiotemporal evidence - points; spatiotemporal evidence - systematic surveys; spatiotemporal evidence - DNA; complex data - interactions, etc.)
12:00 - 12:30 Breakout Group Discussions on GBIF Applications and GBIF Agrobiodiversity Project
12:30 - 13:00 Back together: reporting from breakout groups, summaries, and action points
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 16:30 Visit to ICARDA Resources
19:30 Workshop Dinner Restaurant Ziryab, Rabat, Morocco: https://g.co/kgs/tQou1ns. The bus will pick us up at 19:15 from Onomo Hotel Rabat Terminus.
Day 3: Thursday, 29 May 2025 (collaboration)
09:30 - 10:00 Registration, Coffee, and Mingling
10:00 - 11:30 Project Ideas, Brainstorming, and Collaboration Opportunities
11:30 - 12:00 Coffee break
12:00 - 13:00 Breakout Group Discussions on project ideas and collaboration, plus presentation of findings
13.00 Lunch
- The registration deadline for on-site participation was 10th May.
- Registration remains available for online participation.
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