Deadline: 22-Aug-23
The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) has launched the 2023 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge to recognize innovations 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.
Prize Information
- The 2023 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.
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The Judges will provide the Administrator with recommendations on the final number of winners and size of prizes, subject to the Administrator’s final determination.
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 above are collectively, “Makers”.
- An individual may join more than one team or Organization, and an individual who is part of a team or Organization may also enter the Challenge on an individual basis. If participating in a team, the team must appoint and authorize one individual (the ‘Representative’) to represent, act, and enter a Submission, on their behalf.
- By entering a Submission on behalf of a team or organization, you represent and warrant that you are the Representative, and are duly authorized to act on behalf of your team or organization. The Representative shall act on behalf of the team to assume all rights and responsibilities regarding the challenge. If a team entry is selected as a winning entry, GBIF will pay prize money to the Representative, who will bear the responsibility of distributing the prize money to team members.
- The Challenge is NOT open to: Current staff members of the GBIF Secretariat Individuals currently under direct contract to the GBIF Secretariat Members of the GBIF Science Committee Heads of Delegation to GBIF
Criteria
A panel of expert judges from relevant scientific, informatics and technology domains will evaluate submissions based on the following criteria:
- Openness and repeatability: Are the constituent elements of the submission, like code and content, freely available and transparent? Are they appropriately licensed?
- Applicability: Does the submission have sufficient relevance and scope that the communities GBIF support can use or build it?
- Novelty Has a significant portion of the submission been developed specifically for the challenge? Submissions based largely or entirely on previously published work are not deemed to be eligible entries.
For more information, visit Ebbe Nielsen Challenge.
