From October 11th-13rd 2016, the LifeWatch Species Information Backbone and its current components were presented at the International Conference on Marine Data & Information System (IMDIS) in Gdansk, Poland.

From September 26th-30th 2016, the LifeWatch Species Information Backbone and its current components were presented at the 51st European Marine Biology Symposium (EMBS51) in Rhodes.

From August 22nd-26th 2016, the LifeWatch Species Information Backbone and its current components were presented at the 24th International Diatom Symposium (IDS) in Québec City, Canada.

On November 27th 2016, VLIZ celebrated Science Day (Dag van de Wetenschap). For this event, VLIZ opened the doors of its Marine Station Ostend (MSO) and the LifeWatch laboratories for the public at large, for the third year in a row. Two aspects of the Flemish LifeWatch infrastructure were presented: (1) the tagging of fish (European eel and Atlantic cod), where live eels could be admired by the public, and (2) the ongoing phyto-and zooplankton research, with the FlowCam, ZooScan and Video Plankton Recorder on display.

This one day workshop held at VLIZ was the last workshop in a series of meetings organized within the second phase of the biological component of the European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet). This project aims at linking taxonomic information with biological and ecological traits related to marine species. During the previous workshops the rationale, prioritization and methodology to reach the common goal of a standardized database of Marine traits were set up.

From May 2nd to 5th 2016, the LifeWatch Species Information Backbone and its current components were presented at the Second ODIP-II Workshop in Boulder, USA.

From April 6th-8th 2016, the LifeWatch Species Information Backbone and its current components were presented at the EGI conference 2016 - Opening science in Europe and in the World in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

This workshop was organized by the COST action Alien Challenge and gathered invasive alien species database managers, data users, data generators and biodiversity informatics specialists, with representatives from sixteen European countries and one from the United States. The workshop focused on data needs and requirements, existing data sources and data standards for four main invasive alien species themes.

At the occasion of "Ecology across Borders", BES, GFÖ, NecoV and EEF joint annual meeting (Ghent, 11-14 December 2017), LifeWatch-ERIC presented itself to the wide European ecological community.