Ebbe Nielsen Challenge for Innovations in Biodiversity Data is inviting credible applicants who are willing to partake in its ongoing 2022 Scholarship programme at GBIF
GBIF is headquartered in Copenhagen and it`s internationally recognized as the world’s largest biodiversity data access research infrastructure geared towards making scientific data on biodiversity available via the Internet using web services.
Benefits of Ebbe Nielsen Challenge
An expert jury will judge entries 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.
Requirements for Ebbe Nielsen Challenge Qualification
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
Interested and qualified? Go to Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) on docs.google.com to apply
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
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 their own website.
By encouraging entrants to use tools that they’re already familiar and comfortable with, we hope that anyone interested in submitting can focus squarely on questions of what, why, and how—
- what the submission is
- why it matters to the GBIF communities it is intended to serve
- how it works
For more details, visit GBIF website.