Network Partners

SANBI-GBIF Network of Partners

SANBI-GBIF’s Network of Partners are composed of stakeholders from academia, museums and herbaria, provincial agencies, the conservation sector, national government agencies, scientists, research councils and institutions, non-governmental organizations (NGO’s), policymakers, amongst others.

Partners engage with the Node on a range of activities including capacity development, data mobilization and publishing, data use and its applications, strategic engagements, etc. Partners may have signed the SABIF Data Sharing Agreement, SANBI Institutional Data Sharing Agreement and/or have published data via the SANBI-GBIF Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT) or via their own Institutional IPT. This includes members of the Foundational Biodiversity Information Programme (FBIP), who are publishing biodiversity data via the SANBI-GBIF IPT.

Partnerships

Data Partners

Institutions Partnership Mechanisms  
Agricultural Research Council SABIF Funding agreements, Institutional MoU, FBIP funded project & SANBI-GBIF Data Publisher  
Albany Museum SABIF Data Provider Agreement / SABIF Fund Agreements; SANBI Institutional Agreement, FBIP funded project & SANBI-GBIF Data Publisher  
Bloemfontein Museum SABIF Fund Agreement  
Cape Peninsula University of Technology FBIP funded project & SANBI-GBIF Data Publisher  
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR SABIF Fund Agreement  
Ditsong National Museum of Natural History Collection SABIF Data Provider Agreement / SABIF Fund Agreements; SANBI Institutional Agreement  
Durban Natural Science Museum SABIF Fund Agreements; SANBI Institutional Agreement  
East London Museum FBIP funded Project/s & SANBI-GBIF Data Publisher, SANBI Institutional Data Sharing Agreement  
Endangered Wildlife Trust Institutional MoU; SABIF Fund Agreement  
FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology/Animal Demography Unit SANBI Funding Agreements, SANBIF Fund Agreements, SANBIF Data Provider Agreement  
Garden Route Botanical Gardens Trust SABIF Fund Agreement  
Hermanus Botanical Society FBIP funded project & SANBI-GBIF Data Publisher  
Iziko SA Museum SABIF Data Provider Agreement, SABIF Fund Agreements, FBIP funded Projects & SANBI-GBIF Data Publisher  
Kwa-Zulu-Natal Museum SABIF Data Provider Agreement /SANBI Institutional Agreement  
Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University FBIP funded project & SANBI-GBIF Data Publisher  
North-West University FBIP funded project & SANBI-GBIF Data Publisher  
Rhodes University SABIF Fund Agreement, FBIP funded project & SANBI-GBIF Data Publisher  
South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON) FBIP funded Project/s & SANBI-GBIF Data Publisher  
South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity SABIF Data Provider Agreement, SABIF Fund Agreements ’
Stellenbosch University FBIP funded projects & SANBI-GBIF Data Publisher  
University of Kwa-Zulu Natal, Bews Herbarium (NU) SABIF Fund Agreement, FBIP funded projects & SANBI-GBIF Data Publisher  
University of Cape Town - Biological Science Department FBIP funded project & SANBI-GBIF Data Publisher  
University of Cape Town - Botany Department SABIF Fund Agreement  
University of Cape Town - Molecular and Cell Biology Department (MCB) FBIP funded project & SANBI-GBIF Data Publisher  
University of Cape Town (Bolus Herbarium) SABIF Fund Agreements  
University of Johannesburg FBIP funded project & SANBI-GBIF Data Publisher  
University of Mpumalanga Institutional MoU, FBIP funded project/s & SANBI-GBIF Data Publisher  
University of Pretoria Institutional MoU, SABIF Fund Agreements, FBIP funded projects & SANBI-GBIF Data Publisher  
University of the Free State FBIP funded project/s & SANBI-GBIF Data Publisher  
University of the Witwatersrand Institutional MoU, FBIP funded project/s & SANBI-GBIF Data Publisher  
University of Western Cape FBIP funded project & SANBI-GBIF Data Publisher  

Academic Partners

Institutions Partnership Mechanisms
Sol Plaatje University Institutional MoU, Post-Doctoral Fellowship Agreement
University of Western Cape Institutional MoU, Post-Doctoral Fellowship Agreement
University of Cape Town (Centre for Statistics in Ecology) Institutional MoU, Post-Doctoral Fellowship Agreement, Training Provider Agreement
Rhodes University SANBI-GBIF Student Agreement
University of Kwazulu Natal SANBI-GBIF Student Agreement
Conquest Analytics and Training SANBI-GBIF Training Provider Agreement
University of Witwatersrand SANBI-GBIF Training Provider Agreement

International Partners

International Collaborations  
GBIF Norway, Natural History Museum, University of Oslo Partnership Project - BioDATA Advanced
GBIF Spain, Real Jardin Botanico -CSIC, Madrid eLearning Collaboration
University of Kansas, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Biodiversity Informatics Training Curriculum Partner
Australian Biodiversity Information Services Training Provider
University of California Berkeley, Vertnet Training Provider