The Young Researchers Award (YRA) is an annual award aimed at graduate students from countries participating in the GBIF network.  Students should be enrolled in a masters or doctoral programme.

The main objective of the award is to foster innovative research and discovery in biodiversity informatics.  The award has been put in place to stimulate use of GBIF enabled data by graduate students developing new research in biodiversity informatics and also to serve as an outreach mechanism to universities. 

Please notice that all nominations for the award cannot be sent directly to GBIF, All nominations are to be sent to the GBIF Secretariat by the national Heads of Delegation. Se call for nomination for more information.

• Call for proposals for the 2013 Young Researchers Award

• Awards target novel research on species distributions
• Call for proposals for the 2012 Young Researchers Award

• Young scientists showcase GBIF data use
• Call for proposals for Young Researchers Award 2011

• Young researchers impress GBIF Science Committee
• Call for proposals for the first GBIF Young Researchers Award