Deadline: 14-Aug-22
The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) has launched the 2022 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge to recognize innovative entries that leverage biodiversity data and tools from the GBIF network to advance open science.
Challenge entries can take any number of forms, as entrants may choose to develop new applications, visualizations, methods, workflows or analyses, often (but not always) making use of the GBIF API to access data. Entries may also build on or extend the capabilities of existing tools and features available across the GBIF network.
The 2022 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge is deliberately open-ended, so entrants have a broad remit for creating tools and techniques that advance in open science and improve the access, utility or quality of GBIF-mediated data. Challenge submissions may be new applications, visualization methods, workflows or analyses, or they build on and extend existing tools and features.
Winners will be announced in October 2022 at the 29th GBIF Governing Board meeting in Brussels.
Award Information
The 2022 Challenge will award up to €20,000 for submissions whose features, tools and techniques advance open science and improve the access, utility or quality of GBIF-mediated data.
Eligibility Criteria
- The Challenge is open to:
- Individuals
- Teams of individuals, with no limit on the number of people included in a team
- Organizations—including corporations, not-for-profit corporations and other nonprofit organizations, limited liability companies, partnerships, and other legal entities)—at exist and have been organized or incorporated at the time of entry (“Organizations”)
- The Challenge is not open to:
- Current staff members at the GBIF Secretariat
- Individuals currently contracting directly with the GBIF Secretariat
- Members of the GBIF Science Committee
- Heads of Delegation to GBIF
For more information, visit https://www.gbif.org/news/77jGLQMqzZtjQi10AxAgrY/2022-ebbe-nielsen-challenge-seeks-open-data-innovations-for-biodiversity