1. Royal Museum for Central Africa
Dr. Patricia Mergen
Biodiversity Information Services
The Museum aspires to be a world centre of research and knowledge dissemination on past and present societies and natural environments of Africa, and in particular Central Africa.

2. Some Facts ! Not just a Museum ! But also a Research Institute,
a Library,
an Education Center, …
Human Sciences
Biology
Earth sciences
Others
- Archaeology
- Ethnography
- Colonial History
- Contemporary History
- Social Anthropology
- Linguistics
- Ethnomusicology
- Vertebrates
- Entomology
- Invertebrates non-insects
- Wood Biology
- Molecular Biology
- Biodiversity Information and Cybertaxonomy
- General Geology
- Cartography
- Geochemistry
- Isotope Geology
- Geomorphology
- Library
- Collection Management
- Publications
- Education
- Communication
- Museology
- ICT ….

3. RMCA related expertise
RMCA is participant and WP leader in several EU projects (MIMO, BHL-europe, Open up!, EDIT, SYNTHESYS …)
RMCA adheres to and has experience international standards in matters of scientific data standards and related IT tools (Biodiversity Information Standards, INSPIRE, Open GIS Consortium ….)
Has experts groups on collections managements, knowledge management, IPR management relevant to such projects …
Due to its multidisciplinary and scope a good candidate for use cases, with a large range of different content and media types.

4. High Interest of RMCA to be partners up to WP leader in projects in:
CHALLENGE 6.5MOBILISING ENVIRONMENTAL KNOWLEDGE FOR POLICY, INDUSTRY AND SOCIETY
ENV Mobilising environmental knowledge for policy and society
ENV Exploiting the European Open Data Strategy to mobilise the use of environmental data
and information
ENV Knowledge platforms, networking and uptake of research results for more strategic
international R&I cooperation
Thank you for your
Attention !
Further contacts
Dr. Patricia Mergen
Head of Biodiversity Information and Cybertaxonomy services