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SBDI tools now available in the Digital Twin Ocean (DTO)
SBDI is excited to announce that SUBSIM, the Swedish platform for subsea image analysis, is now available through the European Digital Twin Ocean infrastructure EDITO.
GBIF Sweden part of newly funded BID project to strengthen museum collection digitization and biodiversity data use in Africa
SBDI is excited to see GBIF Sweden take part in important new BID project, helping strengthen biodiversity data mobilization and museum collection digitization across East and Southern Africa. The initiative highlights the growing importance of open, FAIR biodiversity data and international collaboration in supporting research, conservation, and evidence-based decision-making — values that are central to both SBDI and GBIF Sweden.
Swedish Metabarcoding Network launched to mobilize eDNA data
A new national initiative, the Swedish Metabarcoding Network (SMN), has been launched to bring together researchers and data producers working with eDNA and metabarcoding across Sweden. The network aims to improve the accessibility and reuse of metabarcoding data by supporting publication of processed biodiversity data in FAIR formats.
Director for SBDI – position open
We are recruiting a new Director for the Swedish Biodiversity Data Infrastructure (SBDI).
Call for submissions: 2026 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge
The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) has opened the call for submissions for the 2026 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge. The challenge promotes innovative uses of open biodiversity data by recognizing the development of tools, workflows, and applications that improve the access, integration, analysis, or reuse of biodiversity information.The Ebbe Nielsen Challenge...
Call for nominations: 2026 GBIF Graduate Researchers Award
The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) has opened the call for nominations for the 2026 GBIF Graduate Researchers Award. The award recognizes outstanding research by master’s and PhD students whose work uses GBIF-mediated biodiversity data and demonstrates innovation and discovery in biodiversity science and biodiversity informatics.The award is presented annually...
Biodiversity Monitoring Week 2026 to take place in Montpellier
The first Biodiversity Monitoring Week (BioMonWeek 2026) will be held in Montpellier, France, from 4 to 8 May 2026. The event is conceived as a new European platform for biodiversity monitoring, bringing together experts from research, policy, public authorities, NGOs, the private sector, and citizen science to strengthen coordination and...