Call to submit entries to GBIF’s annual incentive competition with €20,000 in prizes
DEADLINE: Friday 26 June 2026
The 2026 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge is seeking submissions of 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 to select a pool of winners to share a prize pool of €20,000.
Challenge entries may detail recently developed functional prototypes, tools and techniques or existing ones whose capabilities and features have been improved or extended. Challenge submissions may be new applications, visualization methods, workflows or analyses, or building on and extending existing tools and features.
Submission deadline
Friday 26 June 2026, 23:59 Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)
Eligibility
The Challenge is open to individuals, teams, companies and government agencies.
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 or GBIF Heads of Delegation.
For more information and to access the entry form click here