2024 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge seeks open-data innovations for biodiversity

Have you or your team developed tools and techniques that improve the access, usefulness and quality of open biodiversity data? Then you should submit them to this open-ended, annual incentive competition.

The 2024 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge, is an annual incentive prize seeks to inspire innovative applications of open-access biodiversity data by scientists, informaticians, data modelers, cartographers and other experts.

The aim is to 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. The jury will select a pool of winners to share a prize pool of up to €20,000.

Deadline: 14 August 2024.