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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear TDWG,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">SYNTHESYS3 has now opened its 3<sup>rd</sup> Access call, and we would greatly appreciate your help in spreading the word. Please forward the email below and/or the attachment to any EU-based colleagues who may be interested in applying.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For more information on SYNTHESYS, please visit <a href="http://www.synthesys.info">
www.synthesys.info</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">If you have any queries about the project, please email <a href="mailto:synthesys@nhm.ac.uk">
synthesys@nhm.ac.uk</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Kind regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt">Katherine Dixey<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt">SYNTHESYS Administrator | Natural History Museum, London<o:p></o:p></p>
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<h1 align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"NHM Ingrid"">SYNTHESYS is back -
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">funding available for short research visits</span><o:p></o:p></h1>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">New Call Deadline: 15<sup>th</sup> October, 2015 (17:00 UK time).</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The SYNTHESYS Office is pleased to announce the third call for applications of the SYNTHESYS3 project under the current European Commission's FPVII European-funded
Integrating</span> <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">
Activities funding scheme.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">SYNTHESYS Access funding is available to provide scientists (Users) based in European Member, Associate and Candidate States to undertake short visits to utilise the
infrastructure (comprising the collections, staff expertise and analytical facilities) at one of the 18 partner institutions (see full list below) for the purposes of their research. This is the third of four annual calls for applications during the project’s
four-year duration.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Access Call 3 will officially open for applications on 16<sup>th</sup> July 2015.
<b>The Call 3 deadline will be 17:00 (UK time) Thursday 15<sup>th</sup> October, 2015</b> and awarded visits must take place within 2016 (calendar year).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><a href="http://www.synthesys.info/access/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">APPLY HERE</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Taxonomic Access Facilities (TAFs)</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The 18 partner institutions are organised into 11 national TAFs. TAF Users will be hosted by a TAF staff member (Host).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The 11 TAFs represent an unparalleled resource for taxonomic research offering:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Collections amounting to over 390 million natural history specimens, including 3.3 million type specimens</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Internationally renowned taxonomic and systematic skill base</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Facilities including: molecular, imaging and chemical analysis</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">
<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">New</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> - Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung and State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart are now offering Access
as part of DE-TAF<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Proposals for funding are welcomed from high-calibre scientists in any technical discipline seeking access for short-term research visits (average duration 15 days).
SYNTHESYS is able to meet the Users' costs for:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Research costs (bench fees and laboratory consumables)</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">International travel & local accommodation while based at the TAF</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">A per diem contribution towards living costs
<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">See</span>
<a href="http://www.synthesys.info" title="http://www.synthesys.info"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">www.synthesys.info</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">for more information or contact</span>
<a href="mailto:synthesys@nhm.ac.uk" title="mailto:synthesys@nhm.ac.uk"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">synthesys@nhm.ac.uk</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy">
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<p><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">SYNTHESYS TAFs:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:42.55pt;text-indent:-42.55pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">AT-TAF Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:42.55pt;text-indent:-42.55pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">BE-TAF Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences;
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Royal Museum of Central Africa;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:42.55pt;text-indent:-42.55pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">CZ-TAF Národní Muzeum, Praha;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">DE-TAF Museum für Naturkunde;
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Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung
<span style="color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">**NEW**</span><span style="color:red">
<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart
<span style="color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">**NEW**</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:42.55pt;text-indent:-42.55pt"><span lang="ES" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">ES-TAF Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales &<br>
Real Jardín Botánico Naturales (CSIC);</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left:42.55pt;text-indent:-42.55pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">DK-TAF The Natural History Museum of Denmark;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:42.55pt;text-indent:-42.55pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">FR-TAF Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle;</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left:42.55pt;text-indent:-42.55pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">GB-TAF Natural History Museum, London;
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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; <br>
Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh;</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left:42.55pt;text-indent:-42.55pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">HU-TAF Hungarian Natural History Museum;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:42.55pt;text-indent:-42.55pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">NL-TAF Naturalis Biodiversity Center; *<i>major collections closure for 2 years from August 2016 – Call 3 is last chance to apply for access
under SYNTHESYS – see </i></span><a href="http://www.synthesys.info/access"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">www.synthesys.info/access</span></i></a><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> for details</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:42.55pt;text-indent:-42.55pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">SE-TAF Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Eligibility:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The SYNTHESYS TAFs are inviting Access applications from scientists working in the Member States of the EU:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark (including Greenland), Estonia, Finland, France (including Guadeloupe, Martinique, Guyane, La
Réunion), Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Plus the Associated Countries of the EU:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Faroe Islands, FYR Macedonia, Iceland, Israel, Liechtenstein, Montenegro, Norway, Republic of Moldova Republic of Serbia, Switzerland
and Turkey.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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