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Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities

Hello there! So, there are a bunch of places in Europe where people work to study and identify different kinds of living things - like plants, insects, and animals. These places are called taxonomic facilities.

Now, sometimes these facilities can't do everything they need to do on their own. They might need some help from other facilities. So, they get together and form a group called a consortium.

This consortium is a way for them all to work together and share information to help each other out. They might also use the group to work on bigger projects that would be too difficult for just one facility to do alone.

Basically, the Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities is just a big group of people who study different living things, and they work together to help each other out and get things done.