Applications Invited for Ebbe Nielsen Challenge 2025

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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 has 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.

Prize

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.

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

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

7 September 2025, 23:59 Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)

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