Ebbe Nielsen Challenge

The Ebbe Nielsen Challenge recognizes innovative entries that leverage biodiversity data and tools from the GBIF network to advance open science. Individuals and teams can prepare tools and techniques that improve the access, usefulness and quality of open biodiversity data and submit them to this annual open-ended incentive competition.

Challenge entries

  • Entrants may choose to develop new applications, visualizations, methods, workflows or analyses.
  • Can also build on or extend the capabilities of existing tools and features available across the GBIF network.

Eligibility

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

Benefits

Winners will be announced at the 28th GBIF Governing Board meeting in October 2021. After an expert jury judges entries based on their openness and repeatability, relevance and novelty and present a selected pool of winners with a total of up to €20,000 in prizes.

For any queries, send questions or requests for clarifications to ENChallenge@gbif.org.

Submission requirements

Entrants must complete the entry form, which provides information about the entry, including:

  • 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

Submission deadline

2 August 2021, 1600 Central European Summer Time | UTC +2

For all details: https://www.gbif.org/news/3D4vDeTzJ4UrTuYZ8SiPVY/2021-ebbe-nielsen-challenge-seeks-open-data-innovations-for-biodiversity

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