{"id":1712,"date":"2019-06-17T09:38:31","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T09:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/?p=1712"},"modified":"2019-06-17T09:56:10","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T09:56:10","slug":"the-regional-master-program-in-biodiversity-informatics-opens-registration-to-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/2019\/06\/17\/the-regional-master-program-in-biodiversity-informatics-opens-registration-to-students\/","title":{"rendered":"The Regional Master program in Biodiversity informatics opens registration to students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.rgstatic.net\/ii\/institution.image\/AS%3A267466142355459%401440780305721_l\" width=\"180\" height=\"202\" \/>The master program in Biodiversity informatics has opened its doors at the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences of the University of Abomey-Calavi, Benin, in October 2017. It is at its third student batch from next academic year.<\/p>\n<p>It is regional in that it receives students of several nationalities and national and international teachers (especially from the United States and Europe) come to teach in the program.<\/p>\n<p>The objective of this Regional Master is to train specialists of a new generation in biodiversity, able to integrate threats to biodiversity to research issues to deduce relevant results to inform decision-making on biodiversity in the context of climate and global change.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the link to the section of the communication and outreach on TV that clarified the master program (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/4ajSBF1Jdyk\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/youtu.be\/4ajSBF1Jdyk&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1560846833123000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGyAHkFMvfmlHkG8MrcsqWJgpPJAQ\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/4ajSBF1Jdyk<\/a>) (it is in French)<\/p>\n<p>We invite you to join or massively enroll your staff in the program in order to meet the challenges of mobilizing and using biodiversity data for decision-making.<\/p>\n<p>Applications are already in progress since the 1<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0June and we are closing on 30<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0June 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The program is taught in French and English.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The master program in Biodiversity informatics has opened its doors at the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences of the University of Abomey-Calavi, Benin, in October 2017. It is at its third student batch from next academic year. It is regional in that it receives students of several nationalities and national and international teachers (especially from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-career-opportunities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1713,"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712\/revisions\/1713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}