1. Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities
International non-profit Organisation (AISBL)
About 40 Natural History Institutions across Europe
Billions of specimens, observational and habitat information
Multidisciplinary expertise:
(Research, Biodiversity Informatics, Geographic Information systems, collection management, species distribution, modeling, ICT, education, Communication, PR, Legal Framework , ABS … )
Long term experience in participating to large scale EU projects.
Chair :
Secretariat :
Legal address : Royal Museum for Central Africa,
Leuvensesteenweg 13
3080, Tervuren, Belgium

2. Interests in Work Programme 2012:
Challenges 6.1 : Coping with Climate change  CETAF or CETAF members to provide content and expertise
- Challenge 6.2 Sustainable use and management of land and seas :
ENV Assessing global biological resources: the European contribution to the Global Earth Observation Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO BON)
CETAF and CETAF members willing to play a leading role together with its partners (European GBIF nodes, GTI, CBD, LifeWatch, BioCASE ….)
- 6.5 Mobilising environmental knowledge for policy, industry and society:
ENV Demonstration and exploitation of most promising prototypes and tools derived from European research activities
ENV Exploring opportunities for open access to primary environmental data
 Results from previous EU projects like the EDIT platform for Cybertaxonomy, e-flora, Geospatial components …