- To provide the largest possible diffusion to the presence and objectives of the group, with a view to include all people interested in Arachnology no matter their level of knowledge or experience, their arachnological interests or working group, their geographical region, or their disciplines (biology, ecology, palaeontology, applied sciences, etc.) To help us with such purpose, we invite you to actively collaborate by making known the Iberian Group of Arachnology and its statutes among the possible interested persons.
- To establish a series of communication mechanisms, that allow us to maintain, besides the regular meetings, an adequate and permanent level of relationship, cooperation and interchange of information, whatever the place of residence or the available technical means. The Directing Board has a special interest in this respect.
Therefore, it assumes the compromise of adequately and timely keeping informed all members about all relevant decisions taken during its management, at the same time answering to all proposals, suggestions and requests from the associates. The communication means are:
- GIA webpage, which will be periodically updated and including all information considered to be relevant or of interest;
- ARACNOLOGIA web forum;
- ARACNOLOGIA mailing list;
- The Iberian Journal of Arachnology.
We encourage you to send us your suggestions and ideas, as well as your will to cooperate in the development of these instruments that already play a fundamental role in the dynamics and growing of the group.
- To carry on with an action programme that prioritizes and coordinates a series of collective projects related to Iberian Arachnology. Although the objectives of the GIA are ample and in practice include every kind of arachnological activity, the Directing Board has conscience of all faults in Iberian Arachnology and considers one of its priorities to further advance in our fauna knowledge.
As such, it's fundamental to support a series of measures that will allow us to have methodological tools, in the shape of identification keys, synthesis, databases, etc., which can be used to evaluate the "state of things" over which to project in the medium term an ambitious action plan that will shorten our knowledge deficit.
Once again we encourage you to send us your suggestions and proposals, without loosing sight that ambitious objectives (that surely we all share) should not be mistaken for feasible plans and proposals which acknowledge and take into account our true capabilities and available resources.
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