{"id":10659,"date":"2025-02-04T09:51:58","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T06:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/?p=10659"},"modified":"2025-02-04T09:51:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T06:51:58","slug":"global-biodiversity-information-facility-ebbe-nielsen-challenge-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/news\/global-biodiversity-information-facility-ebbe-nielsen-challenge-2025","title":{"rendered":"Global Biodiversity Information Facility: Ebbe Nielsen Challenge 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

The GBIF Ebbe Nielsen Challenge is an annual competition that seeks to inspire innovative applications of open-access biodiversity data. In 2025, the Challenge will award a total of \u20ac20 thousand for advancements in open science that feature tools and techniques that improve the access, usefulness, and quality of open biodiversity data. The Challenge is open worldwide to individuals, teams of individuals, companies and their employees, and governmental agencies and their employees. The closing date for submissions is 07 September 2025.\u00a0Ebbe Nielsen Challenge<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

The\u00a0Ebbe Nielsen Challenge<\/a>\u00a0has opened its 2025 call for innovative tools, both new and existing, that leverage biodiversity data from the GBIF network to advance open science in support of research and policy. An expert jury will judge entries on their relevance, novelty and quality to select a pool of winners to share a prize pool of up to \u20ac20,000.<\/p>\n

Between now and\u00a07 September 2025<\/strong>, individuals and teams can submit entries to this open-ended incentive competition, detailing the unique tools and inventive techniques they’ve developed or improved to increase the accessibility<\/a>, quality and usefulness of open biodiversity data.<\/p>\n

Challenge entries may detail newly developed functional prototypes, tools and techniques or existing ones whose capabilities and features have been improved or extended. Entrants can explore\u00a0last year’s entries<\/a>\u00a0along with\u00a0dozens of previous Challenge winners<\/a>\u00a0for inspiration on ideas, topics and approaches worth pursuing.<\/p>\n

Entries should benefit multiple GBIF constituencies, including data users, data holders and data managers<\/a>. Entrants may wish to review the\u00a0GBIF Communications Strategy<\/a>\u00a0to see how GBIF characterizes its audiences.<\/p>\n

Winners will be announced following the 32nd GBIF Governing Board meeting at\u00a0Living Data 2025<\/a>, a joint conference of GBIF,\u00a0TDWG<\/a>,\u00a0OBIS<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0GEO BON<\/a>\u00a0held in Bogot\u00e1, Colombia, between 21 and 24 October 2025.<\/p>\n

The Challenge honours the memory of\u00a0Dr Ebbe Schmidt Nielsen<\/a>, an inspirational leader in the fields of biosystematics and biodiversity informatics and a principal founder of GBIF, who died suddenly just before it came into being.<\/p>\n

Official rules<\/strong>:\u00a02025 GBIF Ebbe Nielsen Challenge<\/em><\/a>
\nEntry form<\/strong>:\u00a02025 GBIF Ebbe Nielsen Challenge<\/em><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The following summary of rules and requirements does not replace or supersede the official rules. Please send questions or requests for clarifications to\u00a0ENChallenge@gbif.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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