Actualités du programme eReColNat

5th Herbarium Day - Angers 2021

We are pleased to invite you to the 5th Herbarium Day of the national network of naturalist collections, on October 7, 2021 at the Natural Sciences museum of Angers.
Come all ! Here is the registration link:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf4cKmmJkiOJ0F7iCq3qNsDZ0MVpGbcynd_1cbZzg4HSB9zNg/viewform?usp=sf_link

The famous scientist Jean Vivant is being honoured with an exhibition

The famous scientist Jean Vivant is being honoured with the exhibition « Jean Vivant d’Orthez à la Guadeloupe, une vie de naturaliste » (Jean Vivant d’Orthez in Guadeloupe, a naturalist's life)

The Jean-Louis-Curtis media library (Orthez, 64) is organising an exhibition on the botanist Jean Vivant. Visitors can view the exhibit on site, and also online on the media library's portal.

Jean Vivant was a teacher and a great specialist in the flora and fungi of the French Western Pyrenees. A tireless worker, he wrote about 200 publications, most notably in Le monde des plantes, the Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France and the Société Mycologique de France. His herbarium, of great value, contains specimens from France (especially the flora of the Orthez region, and the French Antilles), but also from Spain, Portugal, Greece, Morocco, Senegal, etc. His Herbarium va digitized thanks to the e-ReColNat project, and is available online.


You can help enhance and promote the herbarium for its research value, by participating in the citizen science project "Les Herbonautes"! All the derails can be found here.

More information about the exhibition here




Naturalist collections: from real to virtual. Rennes 1 university.

Some of the naturalist collections held at Rennes 1 have been digitised and are available online.

Synthesys+ launches the second Virtual Access call on March 22nd !

The Virtual Access (VA) is a call for computerisation and/or digitisation projects of European Natural History collections.

The VA prioritises transnational projects, which involve collections from several institutions (see list below) and which address one or more of the Horizon 2020 societal challenges. This will allow for the immediate availability of data and associated metadata (e.g. geo-referencing, 2D and 3D images, molecular and chemical data, etc.).

Launch date: 22 March 2021
Deadline for contacting the VA coordinators: 30 April 2021
Closing date of the call: 21 May at 6 pm (Paris time)
Contacts coordinators VA : synthesysva@mnhn.fr
Informations : https://www.synthesys.info/access/virtual-access.html / https://www.synthesys.info/news-events.html
Submission of applications : https://elvis.dissco.eu/welcome

**Participating organisations : **

  • AT: Natural History Museum, Vienna (NHMW)
  • BE: Royal Botanic Institute Natural Sciences, Brussels (RBINS)
  • BE: Royal Museum Central Africa, Tervuren (RMCA)
  • BE: Meise Botanic Garden, Meise (BGM)
  • CZ: Narodni Museum, Prague
  • DE: Museum fur Naturkunde, Berlin (MfN)
  • DE: Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum, Berlin (BGBM)
  • DE: Senckenberg Gesellschaft fur Naturforschung, Frankfurt, Dresden, Gorlitz (SGN)
  • DE: Staatliches Museum fur Naturkunde Stuttgart (SMNS)
  • DE: Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig Bonn (ZFMK)
  • DK: The Natural History Museum Denmark, Copenhagen
  • ES: Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales & Real Jardin Botanico Naturales, Madrid (CSIC)
  • FI: Finnish Museum of Natural History, LUOMUS
  • FR: Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle (MNHN)
  • GB: Natural History Museum, London (NHM)
  • GB: Royal Botanic Gardens Kew (RBGK)
  • GB: Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh (RBGE)
  • HU: Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest (HNHM)
  • IL: National Natural History Collections of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI)
  • SE: Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet, Stockholm (NRM)

Webcast of the movie : "L'herbier, des pétales aux pixels" (The herbarium, from petals to pixels)

Occitanie film is organising a webcast of "L'herbier, des pétales aux pixels": the movie shot to immortalise the digitisation project of the e-ReColNat herbarium collections, from 2016 to 2019. The broadcast is open to all, with audiodescription for blind or visually impaired people. You are welcome if you want to join the discussion that will follow the film. Here are the details below.

Online broadcast "L'Herbier, des pétales aux pixels" by Marie-Christine Fourneaux