The Arctic Science Summit Week (ASSW) 2017 will take place 31 March – 7 April, in Prague, and gather organizations working in Arctic research and exploitation, from all over the world. Read more at http://www.assw2017.eu/.

Together with other geoscientific infrastructures in Norway, NorDataNet is arranging a user workshop focusing on distributed data management and the benefit for users. The workshop will take place on February 15th, at Havforskningsinstituttet in Bergen. Further information is available at Workshop information

Information received through the CODATA mailing list. This may be relevant for a wider community in Norway although the first webinar is already passed.

Information received through the CODATA mailing list that may be relevant for interested readers

On behalf of "GeoForAll", we would like to welcome strong global participation for the fifth edition of the NASA  Europa challenge 2017. The aim of this challenge is to inspire ideas for building great applications that serves the INSPIRE Directive and uses NASA's open source virtual globe technology World Wind. Details at http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/