The SANBI-GBIF Team embarked on a two-day journey to Spain in December 2022 to participate in an exciting new project in collaboration with GBIF-Spain, funded through the Capacity Enhancement Support Programme (CESP) of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). Francisco Pando (GBIF-Spain) reported that the project is “a beautiful challenge” as it is taking us into an area that is “relevant and full of potential in the GBIF universe, and out of our comfort zone”. The expected impact of the project entitled “Cross-continental partnership to investigate data mining approaches for impactful data use cases and stories” is to create capacity in data mining and big data handling, and to jointly develop an eLearning training course on “analytical techniques in biodiversity big data”. The project aims to capacitate upwards of 20 participants, with trainers from Spain, Ghana and South Africa, and will also produce relevant training materials for further rollout of training events.
