Applications Invited for 2024 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge

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About the Organization

GBIF—the Global Biodiversity Information Facility—is an international network and data infrastructure funded by the world's governments and aimed at providing anyone, anywhere, open access to data about all types of life on Earth.

About the Grant

The Ebbe Nielsen Challenge, GBIF's annual incentive competition, has opened the call with the aim of recognizing 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 €20,000.

Between now and 14 August 2024, individuals and teams can prepare tools and techniques that improve the access, quality and usefulness of open biodiversity data by submitting them to this open-ended competition.

Entrants may submit tools and techniques for use in biodiversity-related research and decision-making that they develop or improve to respond to the Challenge. Entries may build new tools or extend the capabilities of existing ones with new features. Entrants can explore a suite of dozens of previous Challenge winners to inspire ideas, topics and approaches worth pursuing.

Entries should benefit multiple stakeholder groups, including data users, data holders and data managers. Entrants may also wish to review the current GBIF Communications Strategy to see how GBIF characterizes its audiences.

Winners will be announced in late September or early October 2024 at the 31st GBIF Governing Board meeting in Portugal.

The Challenge honours the memory of Dr Ebbe Schmidt Nielsen, 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.

Eligibility

The Challenge is open to individuals, teams of individuals, companies and their employees, and governmental agencies and their employees.

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

How to Apply

Submission deadline: 14 August 2024, 2359 Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)

Entrants must complete the entry form, which provides information about the entry and the following components, which will comprise the formal submission:

• Submission name/title
• Team member(s) names and affiliations
• Abstract and rationale
• Operating instructions
• Link to visuals (prototype, demo, video, screenshots, slides, etc.)
• Link(s) to submission materials on any appropriate website or repository

The judges and GBIF Secretariat staff must be able to:

• access and operate or review the submission at no cost
• operate it on readily available hardware (if the submission is a stand-alone application)
• repeat any processes or routines, if the submission is a script or other automated solution

Entrants can prepare and document their entries on a repository or platform of their choosing—GitHub, Jupyter Notebook, Dryad, FigShare, Open Science Framework or other web platforms.

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